小词详解 | stark

• That is in stark contrast to the frenetic activity directly below him.
  那与他脚下热火朝天之势形成了鲜明对比。
  ——《经济学人》
• The stark numbers make clear how monumental the challenge of getting the global economy back on its feet will be.
  严峻的数字表明，让全球经济重新站起来将面临多么艰巨的挑战。
  ——《纽约时报》

• 孩子们极端恐惧地看着那个代孕妈妈用枕头把婴儿闷死了。
  The children watched in stark terror as the surrogate mother smothered the baby with a pillow.
• 孩子们一丝不挂地戏水去了。
  The children have gone wading, stark naked.

• 在冬日的天空下，这些小山了无生气。但在夏天它们绿树满坡，像是披了件毛皮外衣。
  The hills stood stark against the winter sky. But they looked furry with trees in summer.
• 这个房间很简陋，仅有的家具就是一张床和一把椅子。就在那时，最后几束余晖透过崭新的窗户斜射进来。
  It was a stark room with a bed and chair as the only furniture. Then, right on cue, through the pristine window came the last few oblique rays of evening sunshine.

• 这时的晴朗天气和前几个星期的暴风雨形成鲜明的对比。
  The fair weather was in stark contrast to the storms of previous weeks.
• 严酷的事实是我们的经营亏损惨重。
  The stark reality is that we are operating at a hefty loss.

The emperor was actually stark naked but none of his subjects dared say so.
故事中的国王其实浑身一丝不挂，但他的臣民却没有人敢说出真相。

• sheer: nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis)
• utter: complete; absolute
• downright: (of something bad or unpleasant) utter; complete (used for emphasis)