backbone
n. 脊樑骨,脊椎; 分水嶺; 支柱; 決心,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.
英國的小商人是國家經濟的支柱。
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.
你也許要採取極端的措施,你必須有勇氣那麼做。
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
這些名詞都可表示"勇氣,膽量"之意。
Incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society.
清廉的法官是社會的基石.
Not shy on muscle or tannic backbone.
酒質及單寧較為醇厚,耐人尋味.
He has no backbone.
他沒有骨氣.
THE true critic, Vladimir Nabokov once observed, reads not with his brain but with his backbone.
弗拉基米爾?波可夫曾說, 真正的評論家讀書時用的不是大腦,而是脊樑骨.
Every CBTC equipment has a double connection with the double backbone.
每臺基於通訊的列控系統(CBTC)裝置都同雙骨幹網保持雙重連線.