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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• High-speed backbones, on the other hand, offer the prospect of fast, reliable, and highly scalable corporate networks.
  而高速主干网则提供了前景光明的快速、可靠和高度可扩缩的公司网络。
• 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。
• Most of such people got into the backbones of the dynasty and played important parts to solidify the ruling power of the dynasty.
  这些人多成为明王朝的栋梁之才，对明朝江山的巩固起到巨大作用。
• The first of these backbones will be the Fieldbus Foundation's High Speed Ethernet ( HSE) implementation.
  这其中的第一个中坚力量将是基金会现场总线高速以太网（HSE）的实施。
• Squid is my word for people who seem to be missing their backbones but possess myriad sucking tentacles of emotional need.
  除掉鱿鱼.在我的词汇力，鱿鱼是那些似乎没骨头，却长了无数情感需求吸吮盘的人。