linchpin

noun

1. （组织、计划等的）关键人物，关键事物
   a person or thing that is the most important part of an organization, a plan, etc., because everything else depends on them or it

1. N-COUNT 关键；关键性人物（或事物）
   If you refer to a person or thing as the linchpin of something, you mean that they are the most important person or thing involved in it.
   1. He's the lynchpin of our team and crucial to my long-term plans.
      他是我们队伍的核心，对实现我的长远规划举足轻重。

1. Many analysts consider Aleppo a linchpin for the Syrian regime, which sent thousands of reinforcements to hold the city center and beat back the rebels.
   很多分析都将阿勒颇视为叙利亚政府存亡之关键，为此政府派出了成千上万的援军来坚守市中心和反击反政府武装。
2. EXAMPLE: The brilliant young manager is the little company's linchpin; without her, the business would fail.
   这位年轻经理是这家小公司的关键人物，没有她，公司肯定倒闭。
3. For the Activity Streams standard to be a viable linchpin of the decentralized social web, it must also adhere to these principles.
   ActivityStreams标准要成为分散社交网络的关键要素，也必须坚持这些原则。
4. The Tories will have to deliver a referendum by 2017 over whether Britain will stay part of the EU or not, since it was a linchpin pledge during the campaign.
   这意味着英国将在2017年前就是否脱欧盟举行全民公投，因为这是保守党在竞选时最为关键的一大承诺。
5. But the linchpin of this diplomatic push is not an Israeli official, a Middle Eastern king, or an American ambassador. It is an oil company in Texas.
   然而，这一外交努力背后的关键力量，并非哪位以色列官员、中东国王，或是美国大使，而是德克萨斯州的一家油企。
6. But you took painstaking effort to make this wooden magpie. Though pretty and able to fly, it cannot compare with the linchpin in terms of practical value.
   而这只你费了心血做成的木头喜鹊，虽然会飞也很漂亮，但是却不如车辖那样有实用价值。
7. Woodford is the linchpin of the British athletics team.
   伍德福是英国田径队中的关键人物。
8. This wave of change is uncommon for corporate America where CFOs tend to stay for several years and play a crucial role not only in companies 'internal workings but also as a linchpin in their relationships with investors and regulators.
   这股换人风潮在美国企业界并不常见。在美国，CFO一般都会担任很多年，他们不仅在企业内部运作中发挥着重要作用，还在企业与投资者和监管者的关系中扮演着关键角色。
9. In actual china, there is lack of rule of law and her sublime spirit, which acts as the linchpin to maintain the stability and harmony of modern society.
   作为维系现代社会稳定和谐的关键，中国当下最缺失的还是法治以及由她展示出来的崇高精神。
10. Taking this further, any agile methodology specifies that creating a tight, collaborative team is a primary linchpin to implementing this value.
    任意一种敏捷方法都把创建一支紧密协作的团队视为贯彻该价值观的关键所在。
11. You take out this linchpin and you tell me what sense you make of Vietnam and all the Amerecan commitments and all the dangerous escalation going on is worth.
    你除去这个关键那你告诉我你对越南和所有美国的承诺作何感想，所有危险的升级将是值得的。
12. This is the way Phil Ball, author of the excellent book on Spanish football Morbo describes how Johan Cruyff discovered him and turned him into the linchpin of the Dream Team.
    这就是上帝之踝的作用。&著名的西班牙足球专栏Morbo的作者，对约翰•克鲁伊夫能发掘出瓜迪奥拉并将他招入巴萨梦之队，作出如上评价。
13. That is because gold was once the linchpin of the global monetary system and is still seen by many as a hedge against inflation.
    这是因为黄金曾是全球货币体系中的基石，而且至今仍被很多人看作是抵御通胀的保值工具。
14. This question of responsibility for leadership in the Chinese revolution is the linchpin upon which the success or failure of the revolution depends.
    这个中国革命领导责任的问题，乃是革命成败的关键。
15. Nurses are the linchpin of our healthcare system.
    护士是我们医疗保健系统的关键人物。
16. Then, how the ground "choiceness" be united in wedlock, became the part of the linchpin that builds this kind of atmosphere and intention.
    于是，怎样地“精巧”结合，成了营造这种氛围的要害与专心之处。
17. World Bank Country Director for Mozambique Michael Baxter described IDA as a "linchpin" in development assistance to Mozambique.
    世界银行的莫桑比克国家业务局局长MichaelBaxter把IDA描述为莫桑比克发展援助中的一个关键组成部分。
18. As described in [ 9], service registries and repositories are the linchpin of SOA implementations.
    如同在【9】中的描述，服务注册中心和仓库是实现SOA的关键。
19. He views the country as a strategic linchpin whose loss would cost New Delhi dearly.
    他把尼泊尔视为一个战略关键地区，失去它将让印度付出巨大代价。
20. Saudi Arabia, Opec's linchpin member and the world's largest oil exporter, has been cutting its output since the end of last year.
    自去年底以来，欧佩克关键成员国和全球最大石油出口国沙特一直在削减石油产量。
21. The dollar is the linchpin of the system of international payments.
    美元是国际支付体系中的核心。
22. To nail down the aim of a class is the premise of merging setting-up and producing, to design elastic teaching procedure is the assurance, and to control a class smartly is the linchpin.
    设计弹性教学方案是预设和生成“相融共荣”的保证。灵活驾驭课堂是预设和生成“相融共荣”的关键。
23. Gold was, until quite recently, the linchpin of major currencies.
    直到最近黄金还是主要货币的支柱。
24. California was the linchpin state in the last presidential election.
    加利福尼亚州是上届总统选举中最重要的一个州。
25. For a moment, no one moved. Then, as if the woman's threat had pulled some invisible linchpin keeping all the diners locked to their seats, they sprung up and scrambled for the Jim Dandy's exits.
    那一瞬间，没有人动作，然后，似乎这个女人的威胁解除了某种把众食客按在座位上的看不见的锁链一般，大家纷纷跳起来，开始拼命朝着饭店的出口抱头鼠窜。
26. The Linchpin of Manufacture Information Engineering-Human Information Engineering
    制造业信息化的关键&人的信息化
27. But more than half of rural homes lack a washing machine, and about three-quarters have no fridge making those items seemingly the linchpin to the new program.
    但一半以上的农村家庭没有洗衣机，约四分之三的农村家庭没有电冰箱，因此提高农村家庭中这两类电器的拥有率似乎是此次家电下乡计划的关键所在。
28. The king is the linchpin of national unity.
    国王是国家统一的核心人物。
29. Corinne's research was the linchpin of this project.
    科琳的调查结果是这个项目的关键。
30. A linchpin of the country's economy.
    这是本岛经济的一大支柱。

noun

1. pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on

   Synonym:    lynchpin

2. a central cohesive source of support and stability
   1. faith is his anchor
   2. the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
   3. he is the linchpin of this firm

   Synonym:    anchormainstaykeystonebackbonelynchpin