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

• Plants with a mild phenotype formed normal leaf sheaths and blades, but lacked ligules and showed diffusion of the blade – sheath boundary.
  轻度的植株能有正常的叶及叶鞘，但没有叶舌，叶与叶鞘的边界弥散。
• Ovicidal trait in DH lines was phenotyped by necrotic symptoms on the leaf sheaths due to ovicidal response.
  DH株系中的杀卵特性是通过叶鞘上杀卵反应产生的坏死症状表现的。
• 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。
• It shows two well-developed sheaths around the vascular bundles.
  它显示出两个发育完全之维管束鞘位于维管束周围。
• He juxtaposed the magnificence of jacquard fabrics with the savage edge of animal skins, transformed into fitted sheaths.
  他把富丽堂皇的提花织物和动物皮毛未经修饰的边拼在一起，做成合身的紧身服装。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sheaths are also made to command high appreciation and value.
  刀鞘被制作的具有很高的观赏性和价值。
• 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。
• 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。