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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• The youths are the backbones of the country!
  年轻人是国家的栋梁！
• 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。
• Who will win the battle for the backbones?
  谁能赢得主干网之战？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。