touchstone

英 [ˈtʌtʃstəʊn]

美 [ˈtʌtʃstoʊn]

n.  试金石; 检验标准

复数：touchstones　

GRE

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
  1. the touchstone for quality
     检验质量的标准

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a basis for comparison
  1. the schools comply with federal standards
  2. they set the measure for all subsequent work
  Synonym:standardcriterionmeasure

双语例句

• 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。
• Fine. where's the damn touchstone?
  好吧，那该死的试金石在哪儿？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• The greatest touchstone of any work is time.
  时间是检验一切的最好的试金石。
• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
  试金石试黄金，金子则考验人。