skeleton

Compared meaning: the basic structure of something (noun).

比较义项：结构或轮廓（骨架/框架）（名词）。

• frame

  Refers to a rigid border or supporting structure, often visible and man-made, that surrounds or holds something in place, like a picture or window.

  指坚硬的边框或支撑结构，通常是可见的、人造的，用来包围或固定某物，例如相框或窗框。

  The window frame was painted white to match the house.

  窗框被漆成白色，以配合房子的颜色。

• skeleton 本词

  Refers to the internal framework of bones supporting a body, or figuratively the bare essential outline of something before it is filled in with detail.

  指支撑身体的内部骨骼框架，或比喻某事物在填入细节之前的基本轮廓或梗概。

  He wrote a rough skeleton of the plot before adding any dialogue.

  他先写出情节的粗略梗概，然后才加入对话。

Frame and skeleton both mean the structure that shapes something. Frame is a rigid border or support, like a window frame. Skeleton is the internal bone structure, or a plan's bare outline. Their other senses, falsely blaming someone and a hidden secret, are not compared.

这两个词都可以指支撑或勾勒出某物形态的基本结构，但frame强调可见的、通常是人造的边框或支撑物，而skeleton强调内部的、支撑整体形态的骨骼状结构，也常用于比喻计划或文章的基本轮廓。这里不比较frame的“陷害某人”或skeleton的“秘密丑闻（衣柜里的骷髅）”等其他意义。