形容词

名词

1. 骨骼;骸骨
Your skeleton is the framework of bones in your body.

2. (员工)最基本的，基干的
A skeleton staff is the smallest number of staff necessary in order to run an organization or service.

3. 轮廓;框架;构架;梗概
The skeleton of something such as a building or a plan is its basic framework.

4. 家丑;不可告人的丑事
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.

1. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

e.g. the building has a steel skeleton

Synonym: skeletal frameframeunderframe

2. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

Synonym: skeletal systemframesystema skeletale

3. a scandal that is kept secret

e.g. there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet

Synonym: skeleton in the closetskeleton in the cupboard

4. something reduced to its minimal form

e.g. the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self
the bare skeleton of a novel