backbone
n. 脊梁骨,脊椎; 分水岭; 支柱; 决心,毅力
Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
The backbone of an organization or system is the part of it that gives it its main strength.
The small business people of Britain are the economic backbone of the nation.
英国的小商人是国家经济的支柱。
If you say that someone has no backbone, you think they do not have the courage to do things which need to be done.
You might be taking drastic measures and you've got to have the backbone to do that.
你也许要采取极端的措施,你必须有勇气那么做。
1. a central cohesive source of support and stability;
2. fortitude and determination;
3. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord;
4. the part of a network that connects other networks together;
courage, bravery, backbone, nerve
这些名词都可表示"勇气,胆量"之意。
Incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society.
清廉的法官是社会的基石.
Not shy on muscle or tannic backbone.
酒质及单宁较为醇厚,耐人寻味.
He has no backbone.
他没有骨气.
THE true critic, Vladimir Nabokov once observed, reads not with his brain but with his backbone.
弗拉基米尔?波可夫曾说, 真正的评论家读书时用的不是大脑,而是脊梁骨.
Every CBTC equipment has a double connection with the double backbone.
每台基于通信的列控系统(CBTC)设备都同双骨干网保持双重连接.