sheaths

英 [ʃiːðz]

美 [ʃiθs]

n.  (刀、剑等的)鞘; (工具的)套; 护套; 护层; 护皮; 紧身连衣裙
sheath的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• (刀、剑的)鞘，套
  Asheathis a covering for the blade of a knife.
• 保险套;避孕套
  Asheathis a rubber covering for a man's penis and is used during sex as a contraceptive or as a protection against disease.

双语例句

• Tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States.
  高草，叶鞘光滑带蓝色，在美国用作干草。
• Since the filaments that connect distant nerve cells are surrounded by fatty sheaths which restrict the movement of water, such molecules tend to move along a filament rather than out of it.
  由于连接神经细胞的花丝被脂肪硝所包围，而脂肪硝会限制水分子的运动，所以水分子会沿着花丝运动。
• Their claws are kept sharp by being retracted into sheaths.
  它们的爪子平时缩进皮鞘里，藉此保持锐利。
• Some cultural practices are required to keep these leaf sheaths active during ripening stage.
  一些栽培技术要求在成熟期尽量保持叶鞘的活性。
• Analyse about Ground Current along Single-core High Voltage Power Cable Sheaths and Monitor System
  高压单芯电力电缆接地电流分析与监测系统研究
• The proportion of N was significantly higher in the culms and sheaths, whereas significantly lower in the grains, under dry cultivation than under SC.
  旱种稻成熟期茎鞘中的N素分配显著高于对照，籽粒显著低于对照，品种间叶片有所不同。
• When you stretch, the sheaths ( fascia) covering your muscles lengthen and loosen.
  当你做伸展运动时，肌肉组织就会伸展、变松。
• Histochemical analysis and in situ hybridization showed that the ACO1 expression was localized in the basal parts of leaf sheaths immediately above nodes or the lower parts of elongating internodes.
  组织化学分析和原位杂交结果表明ACO1在伸长中的节间底部仅靠近节的叶鞘基部表达量很高。
• But the official view was that the rods were still mostly intact – and radioactive material was safely contained inside their zirconium sheaths.
  但官方的观点是，燃料棒大体上仍然保持完好，放射性物质仍然安全地包裹在燃料棒以锆制成的外壳之中。
• Tough sheaths push through the earth and do the backwork needed for the emergence, but the buds which then emerge in clusters are silken and delicate.
  坚韧的叶鞘拱出了土壤，需要对突出体作辅助工作，但是随后出现在叶丛中的花蕾光润而娇嫩。