n. 1.【解剖学】脊骨,脊柱。 2.【植物;植物学】针,刺。 3.【动物;动物学】棘状突起刺,壳针。 4.(书)背;(山)脊。 5.〔英方〕草地。 6.【地质学;地理学】火山栓,熔岩塔。 7.〔美国〕(由中心和支持因素转为)勇气,骨气,毅力。 8.〔美俚〕铁路上货车的平顶。 短语和例子 a man who lacks spine and starch 一个缺少骨气的人。
a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
the part of a book''s cover that encloses the inner side of the book''s pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book" 同义词:backbone,
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" 同义词:spinal column, vertebral column, backbone, back, rachis,
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf 同义词:thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet,
any sharply pointed projection 同义词:spur, acantha,
例句与用法
1.
Something was crawling down his spine . 有什么东西在他脊背上爬下去。
2.
Madagascar has a rugged mountain spine . 马达加斯加有一起伏不平的中央山脊。
3.
A cold shiver ran down her spine . 她打了一个寒颤。
4.
A shiver ran down her spine . 她浑身哆嗦了一下。
5.
The spine is tooled in gold . 那书脊是烫金的。
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Rage and hate flowed into her and stiffened her spine . 忿怒和憎恨交并而来,立刻挺硬了她的脊骨。
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Blunt injury to the spine will often heal with complete recovery . 脊柱的钝伤常可愈合,以致完全恢复。
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The distal duodenum and jejunum remain on the right side of the spine . 远端十二指肠及空肠仍处于脊椎右侧。
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We seldom ate fish and then only those that had scales and spines . 我们很少吃鱼,只吃过一些带鳞或长脊骨的鱼。
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His jacket, i know, concealed a body brace which supported his spine . 我知道在他的外衣里面隐藏着一付支撑着他脊椎骨的支架。