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

• 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？
• The touchstone of a contract is the notion of equality.
  检验契约的标准是平等的观念。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We can fight our way back to the embassy! Retorted touchstone.
  我们可以冲回大使馆！塔奇斯顿反驳。
• 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。
• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
  试金石试黄金，金子则考验人。
• 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。