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

• 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。
• The team placed the anemones on top of either coral skeletons or white plumbing tape in the lab.
  研究小组将海葵分别放在珊瑚骨骼上和白色的管道胶带上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Too many skeletons in the closet.
  壁橱里的骷髅太多了。
• The skeletons of dead trees abound in this orchard.
  园里充满了死树的枯骸。
• 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。
• Several dinosaur skeletons have been discovered in the area.
  这个地区发现了几个恐龙的骨骼。
• 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 archaeologist have found several human skeletons.
  考古学家已经发现几具人的骨骼。