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

• The proportion of N was significantly higher in the culms and sheaths, whereas significantly lower in the grains, under dry cultivation than under SC.
  旱种稻成熟期茎鞘中的N素分配显著高于对照，籽粒显著低于对照，品种间叶片有所不同。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When you stretch, the sheaths ( fascia) covering your muscles lengthen and loosen.
  当你做伸展运动时，肌肉组织就会伸展、变松。
• 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。
• It does not show sheaths around the vascular bundles. Procambium ( procambial strand) The layer of cells that gives rise to the vascular tissue.
  它并没有显示出在维管束周围的鞘状构造。原形成层（原形成层束）：形成维管组织的一层细胞。
• 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。