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

• The first of these backbones will be the Fieldbus Foundation's High Speed Ethernet ( HSE) implementation.
  这其中的第一个中坚力量将是基金会现场总线高速以太网（HSE）的实施。
• The common characteristic of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals in that all have backbones.
  鱼类、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类和哺乳动物都长有脊椎。
• In fact our backbones are not straight.
  实际上我们的脊柱不是直的。
• High-speed backbones, on the other hand, offer the prospect of fast, reliable, and highly scalable corporate networks.
  而高速主干网则提供了前景光明的快速、可靠和高度可扩缩的公司网络。
• They were probably simpler than any cell now alive, and may have lacked not only protein-based catalysis, but perhaps even the familiar genetic macromolecules, with their ribose-phosphate backbones.
  他们可能比现在任何一种活着的细胞都简单，也许既缺乏蛋白质催化酶，也没有我们熟悉的具磷酸核糖股价的遗传大分子。
• 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。
• Most of such people got into the backbones of the dynasty and played important parts to solidify the ruling power of the dynasty.
  这些人多成为明王朝的栋梁之才，对明朝江山的巩固起到巨大作用。
• 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。
• Qiujin trained one batch of backbones for Anhui-Zhejiang uprising when she managed Datong school.
  秋瑾主持大通学堂的校务，为皖浙起义培训了一批骨干。