skeleton
n. (建築物等的)骨架; 骨骼; 梗概; 骨瘦如柴的人(或動物)
Your skeleton is the framework of bones in your body.
...a human skeleton.
人體骨骼
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員留在那裡,帶有興趣的人參觀遺址。
The skeleton of something such as a building or a plan is its basic framework.
Only skeletons of buildings remained.
只剩下了建築物的框架。
...a skeleton of policy guidelines.
政策綱領的概要
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.
沃辛先生是此次選舉中的正派先生,本身沒有任何見不得人的醜事。
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)不可告人的醜事
skeleton in (one's) closet
家醜:被隱藏起來的羞恥或丟臉的原始資料,例如一家庭內
He is a walking skeleton.
他真是瘦骨如柴.
The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
這個男孩好奇地彎下身去看鹿的骸骨.
This is exactly the skeleton needed to build up site management functionality on.
這是建立站點管理功能的腳手架.
I don't have skeleton in my closet!
我沒有什麼不可告人的秘密!
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馬爾可夫骨架過程理論討論了傳染病數學模型.