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

• 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。
• Hill walkers find dinosaur bones sticking out of hillsides: schoolchildren pick up ostracoderm skeletons on the beach.
  登山者们会发现山坡上露出的恐龙骨骼，小学生们会在海滩上捡到甲胄鱼（ostracoderm）的骨骼。
• 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。
• The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized.
  微小纤细的骨骼通常在石化前就被食腐肉的动物拆散了，或者被风化作用破坏掉了。
• 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。
• 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。
• The team placed the anemones on top of either coral skeletons or white plumbing tape in the lab.
  研究小组将海葵分别放在珊瑚骨骼上和白色的管道胶带上。
• He centers his constructions around reinforced concrete or steel skeletons.
  他的建筑主要是以钢筋混凝土或钢为骨架的。
• These two amino acids derive their carbon skeletons from pyruvate.
  这两个氨基酸从丙酮酸获得它们的碳架。
• The Woods Hole study found that many marine animals like mollusks and corals that build hard shells and skeletons are most at risk from this.
  伍兹霍尔海洋学研究所的研究发现，许多海洋动物，如生长硬壳和骨架的软体动物和珊瑚是最危险的。