首页英语词典backbonebackbone英英释意

backbone

英 ['bækbəʊn] 美['bæk'bon]
  • n. 支柱;主干网;决心,毅力;脊椎

英英释意


1. a central cohesive source of support and stability;
"faith is his anchor"
"the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"
"he is the linchpin of this firm"
2. fortitude and determination;
"he didn't have the guts to try it"
3. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord;
"the fall broke his back"
4. the part of a network that connects other networks together;
"the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"