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

• Scientists have been able to reconstruct the skeletons and learn a great deal about the dinosaurs 'living conditions.
  科学家们得以重建恐龙骨架，对恐龙的生存情况也了解了很多。
• Made of limestone, these skeletons build up over time, forming the reef.
  这些骨骼由石灰石组成，随着时间推移而层层堆积，形成礁脉。
• Effects include suppressed immune systems, weakened and deformed skeletons, cancers, vitamin deficiency and changes in behaviour.
  影响包括受抑制的各种免疫系统、软化了的且变形的骨骼、癌症、维生素缺乏及行为上的改变。
• The archaeologist have found several human skeletons.
  考古学家已经发现几具人的骨骼。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was bad enough to have those tiny skeletons in the toilet bowl.
  抽水马桶里那些细小的尸骨，已经够叫人难过的了。
• Exhibit dinosaur skeletons, fossil and the Jurassic Period.
  展示恐龙骨架、化石和侏罗纪时期。