touchstone
英 [ˈtʌtʃstəʊn]
美 [ˈtʌtʃstoʊn]
n. 试金石; 检验标准
复数：touchstones
BNC.20944 / COCA.17623
牛津词典
noun
- 试金石；检验标准
something that provides a standard against which other things are compared and/or judged- the touchstone for quality
检验质量的标准
- the touchstone for quality
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 试金石;验证手段;检验标准
If you use one thing as atouchstoneof another, you use it as a test or standard by which you judge the second thing.- Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
工作稳定性已成为很多员工衡量一份工作好坏的标准。
- Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
英英释义
noun
- a basis for comparison
- the schools comply with federal standards
- they set the measure for all subsequent work
双语例句
- Efficiency, therefore, can never serve as a utilitarian touchstone for law or for public policy.
因此，效率绝不能作为法律或公共政策的功利主义标准。 - Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
贫穷是人情的检验器，也是友谊的试金石。 - In business, having a large share of the market is often assumed to be the touchstone for success.
在商业中，占有很大的市场份额常被认为是衡量成功的标准。 - Confession remained the touchstone of guilt or innocence.
供词仍旧是作为有罪与无罪的检验标准。 - Not for the first time, Touchstone wished that he could reach the Charter and draw upon it for strength and magical assistance.
这已经不是第一次了，塔奇斯顿希望他能够召唤咒契，利用力量和魔法相助。 - Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
工作稳定性已成为很多员工衡量一份工作好坏的标准。 - As long as both sides are really in love, distance is a test of their touchstone.
只要双方是真心相爱，距离就是考验他们的试金石。 - When the world was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone.
当世界都四分五裂，你是我的永恒，你是我的试金石。 - To seek truth from facts, we must proceed from reality in all things, link theory with practice and hold practice to be the touchstone of truth& that is the ideological line of our party.
实事求是，一切从实际出发，理论联系实际，坚持实践是检验真理的标准，这就是我们党的思想路线。 - Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石；