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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
  成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石；
• "She would know," said Touchstone, making a face& but at the prospect of raw carrots and green absinthe, not Sulyn.
  “她会知道的，”塔齐斯顿说，做了个鬼脸&但是在生胡萝卜和绿色的苦艾酒的期望上，不是萨莱恩。