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。 - 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。 - Are you suggesting that sg-2used the second gate to steal the touchstone?
你真的认为sg-2利用第二道门去盗窃了试金石？ - 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。 - 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。 - In recent years, her story became a touchstone for film histories, television dramas, a novel and an opera& all in some way exploring national identity in Asia.
近年来，她的故事为若干历史题材的电影、电视剧，以及一部小说与一部歌剧提供了素材，而它们的主题都与在亚洲探索国家身份认同有关。 - 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。 - 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。 - The first serious touchstone for the improvement of Benzema is the next day14 in the Super Cup of Spain.
对于本泽马说，第一块试金石就是接下来14号的西班牙超级杯。 - Love be the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是德行的试金石。