英汉词典

1. 骨骼;骸骨
    Your skeleton is the framework of bones in your body.

    e.g. ...a human skeleton.
           人体骨骼

2. (员工)最基本的，基干的
    A skeleton staff is the smallest number of staff necessary in order to run an organization or service.

    e.g. Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
           只有一小部分必需的工作人员留在那里，带有兴趣的人参观遗址。

3. 轮廓;框架;构架;梗概
    The skeleton of something such as a building or a plan is its basic framework.

    e.g. Only skeletons of buildings remained.
           只剩下了建筑物的框架。
    e.g. ...a skeleton of policy guidelines.
           政策纲领的概要

4. 家丑;不可告人的丑事
    If you say that someone has a skeleton in the closet, or in British English a skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves.

    e.g. Mr Worthing is this election's Mr Nice Guy, without any skeletons in his cupboard.
           沃辛先生是此次选举中的正派先生，本身没有任何见不得人的丑事。