skeleton
n. (建筑物等的)骨架; 骨骼; 梗概; 骨瘦如柴的人(或动物)
Your skeleton is the framework of bones in your body.
...a human skeleton.
人体骨骼
A skeleton staff is the smallest number of staff necessary in order to run an organization or service.
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。
The skeleton of something such as a building or a plan is its basic framework.
Only skeletons of buildings remained.
只剩下了建筑物的框架。
...a skeleton of policy guidelines.
政策纲领的概要
If you say that someone has a skeleton in the closet, or in British English a skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves.
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。
1. something reduced to its minimal form;
2. a scandal that is kept secret;
3. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
4. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;
skeleton in the cupboard
(美)不可告人的丑事
skeleton in (one's) closet
家丑:被隐藏起来的羞耻或丢脸的原始资料,例如一家庭内
He is a walking skeleton.
他真是瘦骨如柴.
The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨.
This is exactly the skeleton needed to build up site management functionality on.
这是创建站点管理功能的脚手架.
I don't have skeleton in my closet!
我没有什么不可告人的秘密!
This paper mainly devotes to study limit theory of Markov skeleton processes through renewal method.
利用侯振挺教授等人提出的马尔可夫骨架过程理论讨论了传染病数学模型.