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

• Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones?
  为什么蜂鸟和大猩猩都有脊骨？
• 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。
• 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。
• Chiral bisoxazolines have been widely applied ligands to asymmetric catalysis and a series of optically active bisoxazolines with rigid backbones and different chelate sizes were synthesized.
  手性双恶唑啉是在不对称催化中广泛应用的一类重要的配体。
• 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。
• The company has a group of high-quality professional talents with very abundant experiences, the main backbones are all engaged in the professional experience of more than ten years.
  公司拥有一批高素质的经验十分丰富的专业人材，主要骨干都有从事线路板行业十余年的专业经验。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。