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

• 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。
• Who will win the battle for the backbones?
  谁能赢得主干网之战？
• Because of the inherent node ( link) failures in wireless networks, virtual backbones should be fault-tolerant.
  由于无线网络存在节点失效、链路断裂等特性，虚拟主干网需要具备一定的容错性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Chiral bisoxazolines have been widely applied ligands to asymmetric catalysis and a series of optically active bisoxazolines with rigid backbones and different chelate sizes were synthesized.
  手性双恶唑啉是在不对称催化中广泛应用的一类重要的配体。
• Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones?
  为什么蜂鸟和大猩猩都有脊骨？
• 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。
• The survivors went through many hardships to come to Yanbian and became the backbones of the Chinese Communist Party and guerrilla forces in Yanbian area in the anti? Imperialist and anti? Feudal revolution.
  幸存的几名中国朝鲜族革命者千辛万苦来到了延边，并投入到反帝、封建的革命斗争中，成为延边地区党组织和游击队的骨干。