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

• 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。
• The youths are the backbones of the country!
  年轻人是国家的栋梁！
• 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。
• 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。
• Our backbones have served well-known companies and important clients in many fields, and they have accumulated rich planning, designing and fabricating experience.
  我们的核心骨干均服务过业界知名公司及大客户，积累了丰富的策划、设计及制作经验。
• Who will win the battle for the backbones?
  谁能赢得主干网之战？
• Perhaps more than the protocols, backbones, and servers that underlie the Internet, open source licenses have facilitated the exchange of source code and ideas.
  也许相对于支持Internet的协议、主干线和服务器来说，开放源码许可更加促进了源代码和思想的交换。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。