1. 骨骼;骸骨 Your skeleton is the framework of bones in your body.
e.g. ...a human skeleton. 人體骨骼
2. (員工)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員留在那里，帶有興趣的人參觀(guān)遺址。
3. 輪廓;框架;構架;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. 政策綱領(lǐng)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. 沃辛先生是此次選舉中的正派先生，本身沒(méi)有任何見(jiàn)不得人的丑事。
skeleton英英釋義
noun
1. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
e.g. the building has a steel skeleton
Synonym: skeletal frameframeunderframe
2. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
Synonym: skeletal systemframesystema skeletale
3. a scandal that is kept secret
e.g. there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet
Synonym: skeleton in the closetskeleton in the cupboard
4. something reduced to its minimal form
e.g. the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self the bare skeleton of a novel