sheaths

英 [ʃiːðz]

美 [ʃiθs]

n.  (刀、剑等的)鞘; (工具的)套; 护套; 护层; 护皮; 紧身连衣裙
sheath的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• (刀、剑的)鞘，套
  Asheathis a covering for the blade of a knife.
• 保险套;避孕套
  Asheathis a rubber covering for a man's penis and is used during sex as a contraceptive or as a protection against disease.

双语例句

• Even the knives seemed loosened in their sheaths, impatient for the bloody and merciless work to begin.
  甚至他们好象迫不及待地连匕首都出鞘了，单等这件血腥而残酷的行动开始了。
• Some cultural practices are required to keep these leaf sheaths active during ripening stage.
  一些栽培技术要求在成熟期尽量保持叶鞘的活性。
• But the official view was that the rods were still mostly intact – and radioactive material was safely contained inside their zirconium sheaths.
  但官方的观点是，燃料棒大体上仍然保持完好，放射性物质仍然安全地包裹在燃料棒以锆制成的外壳之中。
• Histochemical analysis and in situ hybridization showed that the ACO1 expression was localized in the basal parts of leaf sheaths immediately above nodes or the lower parts of elongating internodes.
  组织化学分析和原位杂交结果表明ACO1在伸长中的节间底部仅靠近节的叶鞘基部表达量很高。
• Sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths.
  莎草科的一个属，花排列成紧密的穗状花序，叶退化成基生的鞘。
• Good swords are kept in their sheaths.
  好剑是要入鞘的。
• Specifically, the insulating myelin sheaths around the axons of neurons the parts responsible for transmitting information to other neurons get smaller.
  具体来说，神经元轴突周围的绝缘性髓鞘――负责将信息传送至其他神经元的部分――变小了。
• The hair is formed from cells just above the bulb, which also give rise to concentric zones of differentiated epithelial cells destined to form the inner and outer root sheaths.
  毛球之上的细胞形成毛发，产生由分化的表皮细胞构成的同心环状区，形成内根鞘和外根鞘。
• In short, Knox's proposal was ill conceived and naively made. It does not show sheaths around the vascular bundles.
  总而言之，诺克斯的建议考虑不周，显示幼稚。它并没有显示出在维管束周围的鞘状构造。
• Since the filaments that connect distant nerve cells are surrounded by fatty sheaths which restrict the movement of water, such molecules tend to move along a filament rather than out of it.
  由于连接神经细胞的花丝被脂肪硝所包围，而脂肪硝会限制水分子的运动，所以水分子会沿着花丝运动。