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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- bone [bon] [bəun]
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- 1. noun （脊椎动物的）骨
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2.
noun
（脊椎动物体内的）硬组织
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3.
noun
[复数形态时]骨骼，骷髅
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4.
noun
[复数形态时]身体；尸体
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5.
noun
骨状物（如鲸骨等）
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6.
noun
骨制品；骨状物制品，尤指妇女紧身胸衣的撑条
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7.
noun
[verbal]
[复数形态时]骨制品；骨状物制品，尤指骰子
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8.
noun
[复数形态时]（黑人剧团演出中用骨、象牙、木头串在一起并能奏出节奏的）响板
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9.
noun
[American English]
[复、动词用单]（专门化装演黑人戏的剧团在演出时）站在一排演员的末端与对话者做巧辩的演员；演奏响板的人
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10.
noun
【同义词】bone white
- 11. vt. 剔去…的骨
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12.
vt.
把鲸骨（或其他支挺物）放进…；用鲸骨撑大（女上衣）
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13.
vt.
施骨肥于
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14.
vi.
[American English]
[slang]
苦学；赶功课；临时准备考试；突击学习；死记硬背（功课），（学习）临时抱佛脚（通常与up连用）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- bone [bəυn]
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1.
n
any of the various structures that make up the skeleton in most vertebrates
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2.
n
the porous rigid tissue of which these parts are made, consisting of a matrix of collagen and inorganic salts, esp calcium phosphate, interspersed with canals and small holes
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3.
n
something consisting of bone or a bonelike substance
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4.
n
[plural]
the human skeleton or body
- they laid his bones to rest
- come and rest your bones
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5.
n
a thin strip of whalebone, light metal, plastic, etc, used to stiffen corsets and brassieres
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6.
n
[plural]
the essentials (esp in the phrase the bare bones)
- to explain the bones of a situation
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7.
n
[plural]
dice
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8.
n
an informal nickname for a doctor
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9.
vb
[mainly tr]
to remove the bones from (meat for cooking, etc)
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10.
vb
to stiffen (a corset, etc) by inserting bones
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11.
vb
to fertilize with bone meal
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12.
vb
[taboo slang]
to have sexual intercourse with
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13.
vb
a slang word for steal
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14.
vb
See also bone up
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15.
vb
[Etymology]
Old English b
a n; related to Old Norse béin, Old Frisian be n, Old High German bein
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1.
n
any of the various structures that make up the skeleton in most vertebrates
Examples
- Bone china porcelain is basically made by adding bone ash (burned animal bones) to kaolin and petuntse.
- 骨瓷的基本成分是加入骨粉（动物骨头燃烧后的粉末）的高岭土和白墩子。 → basically
- brittle-bone
- 骨(头)脆的 → brittle
- a bone lodged in her throat
- 卡在她喉咙里的一块骨头 → lodge
- sesamoid bone
- 籽骨 → sesamoid
- bone spavin
- 骨跗节内肿 → spavin
- a dog worrying a bone
- 撕咬骨头的狗 → worry
- The doctor put a pin in his leg to support the bone.
- 为了支撑腿部的骨头，医生把一根钢钉植入了他的腿部。 → pin
- Bone meal is great fertilizer.
- 骨粉是很好的肥料。 → meal
- You are too skinny; all I can see is skin and bone!
- 你太瘦了，我看简直就是皮包骨！ → bone
- After the accident occurred, he was lying on the floor with a bone sticking out of his leg.
- 事故发生后，他躺在地上，一截骨头从腿部戳了出来。 → bone
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