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

• 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。
• Love is the touchstone of virtue.
  爱情是美德的试金石。
• 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。
• "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。
• 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。
• Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
  成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石；
• 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。
• If the gate is there, it makes sense that the touchstone has at least been there.
  如果门是在那儿，看起来试金石似乎也在那儿。
• Love be the touchstone of virtue.
  爱情是德行的试金石。
• 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。