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。

Consisting of diatoms or their skeletons.
硅藻的由硅藻或其骨骸组成的。
The skeletons of dead trees abound in this orchard.
园里充满了死树的枯骸。
He centers his constructions around reinforced concrete or steel skeletons.
他的建筑主要是以钢筋混凝土或钢为骨架的。
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。
Hill walkers find dinosaur bones sticking out of hillsides: schoolchildren pick up ostracoderm skeletons on the beach.
登山者们会发现山坡上露出的恐龙骨骼，小学生们会在海滩上捡到甲胄鱼（ostracoderm）的骨骼。
Only skeletons of buildings remained.
只剩下了建筑物的框架。
Coral reefs form when colonies of tropical marine plants and animals with limestone skeletons rise atop earlier generations.
珊瑚礁形成当热带海洋植动物和石灰石骨骼升起在更早的世代。
Collect dinosaur fossils and skeletons, paleontology, and geology.
收藏恐龙的化石和古骼、古生物学及地质学。
You can count on me, I don't have any skeletons in my closet.
你完全可以信任我，我没什么不可告人的秘密。
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。