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
- Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。 - Taking revenge will not return the touchstone, for we did not take it.
只想着报仇是无法找回试金石的，我们并没有偷。 - Love be the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是德行的试金石。 - 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。 - 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 of a contract is the notion of equality.
检验契约的标准是平等的观念。 - 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。 - Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石； - 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。 - 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。