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 can never serve as the basis for ethics; on the contrary, ethics must be the guide and touchstone for any consideration of efficiency.
效率永远不能作为伦理的基础；相反，伦理才是一切效率考量的指导和检验标准。 - Harry Potter is such a cultural touchstone for children and adults the world over, that it's easy to forget that the characters and the world they live in doesn't actually exist.
对于孩子和成年人来说，哈利波特无疑是世界的文化试金石。人们甚至太容易忘记，这些角色和他们生活的世界其实并不存在。 - 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。 - 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。 - The touchstone maintains the weather on this planet.
这个试金石能维持该行星上的气候。 - 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。 - A poor man read the secret of the "Touchstone" from a book.
一个穷人从一本书上读到“试金石”的秘密。 - Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石； - As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
试金石试黄金，金子则考验人。