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

• In fact our backbones are not straight.
  实际上我们的脊柱不是直的。
• 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。
• Then, ATM started losing ground in campus backbones, as Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 3 switching came to the fore.
  其次，ATM也开始在校园主干网方面丢失阵地，因为千兆位以太网和第三层交换走到了前面。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The youths are the backbones of the country!
  年轻人是国家的栋梁！
• 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。
• 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。