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

• 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。
• Fine. where's the damn touchstone?
  好吧，那该死的试金石在哪儿？
• The Touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
  试金石是一个小的鹅卵石，它能使任何普通的金属变成纯金。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When the world was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone.
  当世界都四分五裂，你是我的永恒，你是我的试金石。
• Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
  成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石；
• When a gold coin is rubbed on a touchstone, it leaves a stripe of a particular color.
  将试金石与金币摩擦，金币会在试金石上留下一条有特殊颜色的条痕。