sheaths

英 [ʃiːðz]

美 [ʃiθs]

n.  (刀、剑等的)鞘; (工具的)套; 护套; 护层; 护皮; 紧身连衣裙
sheath的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• (刀、剑的)鞘，套
  Asheathis a covering for the blade of a knife.
• 保险套;避孕套
  Asheathis a rubber covering for a man's penis and is used during sex as a contraceptive or as a protection against disease.

双语例句

• He juxtaposed the magnificence of jacquard fabrics with the savage edge of animal skins, transformed into fitted sheaths.
  他把富丽堂皇的提花织物和动物皮毛未经修饰的边拼在一起，做成合身的紧身服装。
• Sheaths are also made to command high appreciation and value.
  刀鞘被制作的具有很高的观赏性和价值。
• When you stretch, the sheaths ( fascia) covering your muscles lengthen and loosen.
  当你做伸展运动时，肌肉组织就会伸展、变松。
• Tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States.
  高草，叶鞘光滑带蓝色，在美国用作干草。
• Mechanical and physical performances of the sheaths meet related standards;
  护套的机械物理性能满足相关标准的要求；
• Pathology.& Interstitial emphysema is characterized by air dissecting within the interstitium of the lung, typically in the peribronchovascular sheaths, interlobular septa, and visceral pleura.
  其特征为空气夹在肺间质内，典型的位于血管支气管周围的鞘内、小叶间隔内和脏层胸膜内。
• Since the filaments that connect distant nerve cells are surrounded by fatty sheaths which restrict the movement of water, such molecules tend to move along a filament rather than out of it.
  由于连接神经细胞的花丝被脂肪硝所包围，而脂肪硝会限制水分子的运动，所以水分子会沿着花丝运动。
• Even the knives seemed loosened in their sheaths, impatient for the bloody and merciless work to begin.
  甚至他们好象迫不及待地连匕首都出鞘了，单等这件血腥而残酷的行动开始了。
• It does not show sheaths around the vascular bundles. Procambium ( procambial strand) The layer of cells that gives rise to the vascular tissue.
  它并没有显示出在维管束周围的鞘状构造。原形成层（原形成层束）：形成维管组织的一层细胞。
• Some cultural practices are required to keep these leaf sheaths active during ripening stage.
  一些栽培技术要求在成熟期尽量保持叶鞘的活性。