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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
  试金石试黄金，金子则考验人。
• The greatest touchstone of any work is time.
  时间是检验一切的最好的试金石。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The touchstone of a contract is the notion of equality.
  检验契约的标准是平等的观念。
• 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。