lay bare

基本解释

The setting seemed only to lay bare the self-consciousness of what Mr Obama was doing: trying to sell the least doomed of all the Afghanistan options.
西点演讲的氛围，似乎暴露了奥巴马所做之事的不自然之处：试图推销阿富汗政策所有选择中厄运最轻的那一种政策。
You get, in other words, a tension of voices that is not meant to resolve anything but is rather meant to lay bare the conflicts that are entailed.
换句话说，你所得到的是一种紧张的局面,这种紧张的局面无意于解决冲突,而旨在暴露矛盾。
The creature’s every footstep and tail-swipe lay bare the shaky foundations on which Japan’s postwar prosperity stood.
这个生物的每一个脚步、尾巴的每一次扫荡，无不动摇着日本战后繁荣所赖的摇摇欲坠的基础。

Its purpose is to lay bare as it were the fundamental problems the fundamental concepts and categories which frame the study of politics.
它的目的一向是要提出基础的问题,最基础的概念与类别,以建立政治研究的架构。
耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选
I want them to say that "there was somebody who lay bare, not just argument vision, The joy that he finds in being human, the joy he finds in sharing, the joy he finds in interacting, the common response, which is descent from black culture.
我想要听他们说：,“他是个揭露自己灵魂的人，而不是大谈道理“,作为人所得到的快乐，在分享和互动中所得到的快乐，从黑人文化中所衍生出来的“共鸣感”
普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选
This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.
这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The current issue of the Weekly Standard contains two articles which lay bare this basic truth.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat