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

• 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 calcareous skeletons of this distinctive species have weathered out from the limestone matrix.
  这一独特物种的钙质骨骼已在石灰石矩阵中风化。
• The skeletons of dead trees abound in this orchard.
  园里充满了死树的枯骸。
• 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。
• 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。
• Too many skeletons in the closet.
  壁橱里的骷髅太多了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Several dinosaur skeletons have been discovered in the area.
  这个地区发现了几个恐龙的骨骼。