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

• 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。
• Chiral bisoxazolines have been widely applied ligands to asymmetric catalysis and a series of optically active bisoxazolines with rigid backbones and different chelate sizes were synthesized.
  手性双恶唑啉是在不对称催化中广泛应用的一类重要的配体。
• Many people are dying because of hunger; crops are failing; livestock are dying-even the wildlife, which is actually one of the backbones of the economy in terms of tourism.
  很多人因为饥饿而死亡，作物歉收，牲畜、甚至作为旅游经济顶梁柱的野生动物也面临死亡。
• They are vertebrates, that is, animals that have backbones.
  动物的腓骨动物后腿骨中处于相同位置的那根骨头它们是脊椎动物，即有脊骨的动物。
• Who will win the battle for the backbones?
  谁能赢得主干网之战？
• In fact our backbones are not straight.
  实际上我们的脊柱不是直的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Because of the inherent node ( link) failures in wireless networks, virtual backbones should be fault-tolerant.
  由于无线网络存在节点失效、链路断裂等特性，虚拟主干网需要具备一定的容错性。
• 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。