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。
• Professor Xu Ke, deputy director of the Institute of Computer Networks at Tsinghua University, has previously said that most data passing through network backbones was not encrypted.
  清华大学计算机系网络技术研究所副主任许恪教授之前称，大部分通过骨干网络的数据都没有经过加密。
• Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones?
  为什么蜂鸟和大猩猩都有脊骨？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The youths are the backbones of the country!
  年轻人是国家的栋梁！