Spine

(noun.) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin.

(noun.) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; 'the title and author were printed on the spine of the book'.

(noun.) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.

校对:马奇

• It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You recollect my mentioning Sarah, as the one that has something the matter with her spine? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Her being suffused into his veins like a magnetic darkness, and concentrated at the base of his spine like a fearful source of power. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was mystified; but when she saw the printed words beneath her signature, she felt a cold, clammy chill run up her spine. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Thus every gradation, from an ordinary fixed spine to a fixed pedicellariae, would be of service. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In this case the identity in nature between the arms of the pedicellariae and the movable branches of a spine, is unmistakable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Birkin, as he drove, felt a creeping of the spine, as if somebody was threatening his neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the great centre of his force held steady, a magnificent pride to him, at the base of his spine. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And Sarah's here--the one I mentioned to you as having something the matter with her spine, you know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Sarah has something the matter with her spine, poor girl. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If I lay on my face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to think of that dreadful snap. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• What an exquisite shudder it sent shivering along one's spine! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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