touchstones

英 [ˈtʌtʃstəʊnz]

美 [ˈtʌtʃˌstoʊnz]

n.  试金石; 检验标准
touchstone的复数

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。

双语例句

• Next, the programme uses a series of exercises to help clients identify important occasions and emotional touchstones of their lives.
  接下来，课程中将通过一系列练习来帮助客户识别他们人生中的重要场合和情感标准。
• All these have, completed the upholstery for next week's FA Premier League first place war, whether the Chelsea unmatched in the world, Liverpool will be the best touchstones.
  所有这一切，都为下周的英超榜首大战做好了铺垫，切尔西是否天下无敌，利物浦将是最好的试金石。
• Divides into Periods God Deliver Son from the Linear Manifestaion; The scientific touchstones of the modern age the Bomb, space travel, electronics, Quantum physics all bear his imprint.
  原子弹、空旅行、子学、子物理这些现代科学的代表都有赖于他的影响。
• These masterpieces are the touchstones for all our efforts;
  这些杰作构成了我们全部努力的试金石。
• Beloit College in Wisconsin, US, compiled a list of cultural touchstones to define the incoming freshmen, describing them as "having digital in their DNA".
  位于美国威斯康星州的伯洛伊特学院专门为这批新生编辑了文化标准，称他们的DNA中就含有数字（技术）。
• Governance structures are repeatable touchstones that ensure that both providers and clients will set and live up to expectations.
  治理结构是一种可重复的标准，它可以确保供应商和客户达成目标。
• Must appear from the analysis to several parts: Lands issues test ruling class and the touchstones of political partieses, influence Kuomintang and the Communist Party the decisions of relations.
  这一部分是在对前几个部分分析的基础上得出的一个结论，即土地问题是考验一切统治阶级和政党的试金石，也是影响国共关系的决定因素。
• Even so, the tea party and Sarah Palin, former Alaskan governor, touchstones for the populist right, seemed like phenomena from a past era.
  尽管如此，茶党（teaparty）和前阿拉斯加州州长、民粹主义右派的“试金石”莎拉佩林（sarahpalin）看起来就像来自过去某个年代。
• Celebrity, money and possessions are too often the touchstones for teenagers and yet these are not where happiness lies.
  名誉、金钱和财产常常成为青少年们衡量事物的标准，但这些东西都不是快乐的真谛。
• The qualities of courage and vision that are the touchstones of leadership
  勇气与远见是检验领导风范的试金石