英语词汇“backbone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	backbone
释义	backbone \ˈ ̷ ̷\| ̷ ̷\ noun Etymology: Middle English bakbon, from bak back + bon bone 1. : spine, spinal column, vertebral column 2. a. (1) : the chief mountain ridge, range, or system of a country or region < the broad uplands of the Pennines form … the backbone of England — L.D.Stamp > < down the small pod-shaped peninsula … runs a backbone of high mountains — J.B.P.Robinson > (2) : the foundation or most substantial or sturdiest part of any material object < a heavy length of wood … which forms the backbone of the boat — Manual of Seamanship > < saw the girders, the gaunt steel backbone of the building, rising in the air > b. (1) : the mainstay, principal support, or most substantial element or part of something < the clothiers have been described as the backbone of the middle class — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < those branches of general medicine which form the backbone of aviation medicine — H.G.Armstrong > < corn is the backbone of our agriculture — P.C.Mangelsdorf > (2) : firm and resolute character : strength of will < she is dealing with a man who has backbone — Margaret Deland > < displayed backbone by his frank admission of guilt > 3. : the edge of a book along which the sections are secured together in binding : the part that shows as the book ordinarily stands on a shelf and that is often lettered with the title and the author's and publisher's names — called also back, backstrip, shelfback, spine 4. : a rope attached fore and aft along the center of a ship's awning to support and strengthen it 5. : a main railroad-yard track from which other tracks branch Synonyms: see fortitude • - to the backbone
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