backbones

英 [ˈbækbəʊnz]

美 [ˈbækˌboʊnz]

n.  脊梁骨; 脊柱; 支柱; 骨干; 基础; 毅力; 骨气
backbone的复数

柯林斯词典

• 脊柱
  Yourbackboneis the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
• N-SING 中坚力量；骨干；支柱
  Thebackboneof an organization or system is the part of it that gives it its main strength.
  1. The small business people of Britain are the economic backbone of the nation.
     英国的小商人是国家经济的支柱。
• N-UNCOUNT 骨气；勇气
  If you say that someone has nobackbone, you think they do not have the courage to do things which need to be done.
  1. You might be taking drastic measures and you've got to have the backbone to do that.
     你也许要采取极端的措施，你必须有勇气那么做。

双语例句

• Squid is my word for people who seem to be missing their backbones but possess myriad sucking tentacles of emotional need.
  除掉鱿鱼.在我的词汇力，鱿鱼是那些似乎没骨头，却长了无数情感需求吸吮盘的人。
• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
  奇怪的是，没有脊椎的生物却有最硬的壳。
• In the vertebrates ( animals with backbones), smell is processed in the olfactory bulb, which in birds and reptiles is found in the very front of the brain.
  在脊椎动物里，气味在嗅球里反应，而且鸟类和爬虫动物的则是在脑部的前端里反应。
• The mollusc phylum includes all soft-bodied animals without backbones.
  软体动物门包括所有无脊椎的软体动物。
• The company has a group of high-quality professional talents with very abundant experiences, the main backbones are all engaged in the professional experience of more than ten years.
  公司拥有一批高素质的经验十分丰富的专业人材，主要骨干都有从事线路板行业十余年的专业经验。
• They are vertebrates, that is, animals that have backbones.
  动物的腓骨动物后腿骨中处于相同位置的那根骨头它们是脊椎动物，即有脊骨的动物。
• But probably only if backbones were stiffened by a US presence at the summit table.
  不过，这或许只有在美国参加峰会、各方决心加强后才会发生。
• Scientists already knew that the creatures, which resemble underwater hedgehogs, are the only invertebrates ( animals without backbones) on the human branch of the evolutionary tree.
  科学家们早就知道这种类似水底刺猬的生命是进化树上人类这一分支中唯一的无脊椎动物。
• Professor Xu Ke, deputy director of the Institute of Computer Networks at Tsinghua University, has previously said that most data passing through network backbones was not encrypted.
  清华大学计算机系网络技术研究所副主任许恪教授之前称，大部分通过骨干网络的数据都没有经过加密。
• Seriously distorted backbones will affect both people's ability to walk upright and their daily life.
  脊椎骨严重变形会影响人的直立行走及日常生活。