backbone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 脊梁骨，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I am afraid ' And no sooner did this last idea enter my head than an icy blast blew over me; I felt a chill down my backbone and my knees shook.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles cut his head off with a blow from his sword and flung it helmet and all away from him, and the marrow came oozing out of his backbone as he lay.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red body of the wretched little beast was rent to pieces, many of the ribs stripped white, and the backbone indisputably gnawed.
-- 'This backbone has been bitten through.'
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