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

• 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。
• Mechanical and physical performances of the sheaths meet related standards;
  护套的机械物理性能满足相关标准的要求；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Good swords are kept in their sheaths.
  好剑是要入鞘的。
• 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。