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skeleton
- IPA[ˈskɛlɪtn]
英式
- an internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant；used in reference to a very thin or emaciated person or animal
noun: skeleton, plural noun: skeletons
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- 片語
名詞
- 1. an internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant the human skeleton
- ▪ used in reference to a very thin or emaciated person or animal she was no more than a skeleton at the end 同義詞
- ▪ the remaining part of something after its life or usefulness is gone the chapel was stripped to a skeleton of its former self
- 2. the supporting framework, basic structure, or essential part of something the concrete skeleton of an unfinished building the skeleton of a report 同義詞
- ▪ denoting the essential or minimum number of people, things, or parts necessary for something there was only a skeleton staff on duty
- 3. a small toboggan for one person, ridden head first while lying in a prone position the skeleton's runners make a terrifying rumbling sound as they slide down the ice she can hit 70+ mph on her skeleton sled
- ▪ a sport in which a competitor races down a frozen track on a skeleton sled the former heptathlete took up skeleton in 2010 the Canadian men's skeleton team
