skeletons

英 [ˈskɛlɪtnz]

美 [ˈskɛlətənz]

n.  骨骼; 骨架; 骨骼标本; 骨瘦如柴的人(或动物); (建筑物等的)骨架，框架
skeleton的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 骨骼;骸骨
  Yourskeletonis the framework of bones in your body.
  1. ...a human skeleton.
     人体骨骼
• ADJ (员工)最基本的，基干的
  Askeletonstaff is the smallest number of staff necessary in order to run an organization or service.
  1. Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
     只有一小部分必需的工作人员留在那里，带有兴趣的人参观遗址。
• N-COUNT 轮廓;框架;构架;梗概
  Theskeletonof something such as a building or a plan is its basic framework.
  1. Only skeletons of buildings remained.
     只剩下了建筑物的框架。
  2. ...a skeleton of policy guidelines.
     政策纲领的概要
• PHRASE 家丑;不可告人的丑事
  If you say that someone hasa skeleton in the closet, or in British Englisha skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves.
  1. Mr Worthing is this election's Mr Nice Guy, without any skeletons in his cupboard.
     沃辛先生是此次选举中的正派先生，本身没有任何见不得人的丑事。

双语例句

• Several dinosaur skeletons have been discovered in the area.
  这个地区发现了几个恐龙的骨骼。
• Consisting of diatoms or their skeletons.
  硅藻的由硅藻或其骨骸组成的。
• Coral reefs form when colonies of tropical marine plants and animals with limestone skeletons rise atop earlier generations.
  珊瑚礁形成当热带海洋植动物和石灰石骨骼升起在更早的世代。
• Corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands.
  钙质骨骼聚合的珊瑚，能形成礁石和岛屿。
• Exhibit dinosaur skeletons, fossil and the Jurassic Period.
  展示恐龙骨架、化石和侏罗纪时期。
• I read they also found dog skeletons and many shards of pottery that had been decorated with cord.
  我听说他们还发现狗的骨骸，以及很多曾用细绳装饰的陶器碎片。
• Cracking jokes over murdered skeletons is not good times.
  开被谋杀的骨骼的玩笑不是好的时候。
• Unlike hard corals, soft corals have no rigid outer skeletons& the building blocks of coral reefs.
  不同于硬珊瑚，软珊瑚没有坚硬外骨架――建造珊瑚暗礁的支撑架。
• Only skeletons of buildings remained.
  只剩下了建筑物的框架。
• The calcareous skeletons of this distinctive species have weathered out from the limestone matrix.
  这一独特物种的钙质骨骼已在石灰石矩阵中风化。