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 youths are the backbones of the country!
  年轻人是国家的栋梁！
• 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。
• Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones?
  为什么蜂鸟和大猩猩都有脊骨？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many people are dying because of hunger; crops are failing; livestock are dying-even the wildlife, which is actually one of the backbones of the economy in terms of tourism.
  很多人因为饥饿而死亡，作物歉收，牲畜、甚至作为旅游经济顶梁柱的野生动物也面临死亡。
• 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。