stirrups

基本解释

The women had an anesthetic injected into their spines to numb them below the waist, and then their legs were lifted into stirrups.
这些病人采用脊髓麻醉，腰以下有麻醉效果，然后把腿抬到马镫支架上。
In the darkest days of the Middle Ages, a Germanic king adapted the rigid metal stirrups used in Asia, making them instead from flexible leather.
在中世纪最黑暗的时期，一位日耳曼国王开始采用来自亚洲地区的坚硬金属马镫来代替柔软的皮革马蹬。
The boots with heels two inches high, the better to rest in the stirrups or dig into the ground while roping a calf, may have appeared exotic to a dude, but they were absolutely practical.
有两英寸跟的靴子对于踩着马镫休息或者站稳脚跟套小牛更有好处。这种靴子出现在异国的纨绔子弟中，但是他们相当的实用。

There were two ordinary vaquero's or herdsman's saddles, like American stock saddles, one very ornate vaquero's saddle, with hand-tooled leather and heavy, hooded stirrups, and two military saddles in black leather.
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Stirrups are the two metal loops which are attached to a horse's saddle by long pieces of leather. You place your feet in the stirrups when riding a horse.

箍筋
The results show that the cementitious composites with ultrahigh toughness have better energy dissipation capacity,higher crack resistance and shear ductility of joints. It can substitute or partially substitute for the shear stirrups and thus bring good economic benefits.
结果表明,超高韧性水泥基材料能明显改善节点核心区的抗裂性能和剪切延性,具有更好的耗能能力,可部分或全部替代节点处箍筋的抗剪作用,具有良好的经济效益。