sinews

例句:

• Gives sinews to an inference, and makes it just.
  来自W. Wollaston
• A country's sinews are its roads and railways.
  公路和铁路是国家的命脉.
  
• The athletes waited, with all their sinews tensed.
  运动员都在等待着, 全身肌肉十分紧张.
  
• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
  战争的关键不是金钱, 而是好的士兵.
  
• The cuts have been folded back to reveal bloody sinews.
  来自NEWYORKER
• Cut the drumstick flesh and sinews away from the drumstick bone and discard.
  来自BBC