The train companies decided to run the trains on a skeleton crew!

火车公司决定用" skeleton crew" 运营火车！

A skeleton crew will be needed to keep the park open over the winter months.

在冬季的几个月里，公园将需要少数职工来保持开放。

The Covid-19 emergency means that we will run the buses with a skeleton crew until further notice.

新冠肺炎的紧急情况意味着我们将在接到进一步通知之前，安排一队基干人员运营公共汽车。

Due to the financial problems of the company, the office will be run with a skeleton crew for the foreseeable future.

由于公司的财务问题，在可预见的将来，办公室将由一批基干人员管理。

Theon holds the castle with a skeleton crew.

席恩带了一帮船员守城。

It's got a lot of local newspapers that are down to these skeleton crews.

很多当地报纸都报道了这些骨干人员。

During the long winter months, the skeleton crew has to be self-reliant among Thomas's duties the maintenance of the sewage and wastewater treatment equipment.

在漫长的冬季里，关键人员必须自力更生，维护托马斯的污水和废水处理设备。

Ahh yes, and it's usually in times of crisis or during an emergency, for example the coronavirus, that people run businesses with a skeleton crew.

啊，是的，通常是在危机或紧急情况下，例如新冠病毒期间，人们用一支基干队伍经营企业。

I do half the year, but it's winter and the park only keeps a skeleton crew on during these months.

Max：我有半年的时间，但现在是冬天， 公园在这几个月里只保留了一些骨干人员。

Max is saying that that the amusement park where he normally works in the summertime only has a skeleton crew during the wintertime.

麦克斯说，他平时夏天工作的游乐园， 冬天只有骷髅队。

The phrase " skeleton (skeleton) crew (crew)" refers to a very small number of workers – the minimum number of workers you can have at a place.

“骨架（skeleton）船员（crew）”这个短语指的是极少数的工人——你在一个地方可以拥有的最少工人数量。

Admiral Erich Bey had never  commanded a ship of this size before, and due to the time of the year,   only a skeleton crew was aboard.

埃里希·贝海军上将此前从未指挥过如此规模的舰艇，而且由于当时的时间原因，船上只有骨干船员。

If the business doesn't have very many customers, it might have very few employees, and we might call that a " skeleton crew" if during busy times the company has more employees.

如果企业没有很多客户， 它可能只有很少的员工，如果在繁忙的时候公司有更多的员工， 我们可以称之为“骨干人员” 。

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the expression 'skeleton crew', which is used to talk about the minimum number of people needed to run a business or an organisation.

欢迎收听BBC《地道英语》，我们讨论的是" skeleton crew" 这个词组，用来谈论经营企业或组织所需的最低人数。