touchstone

noun

1. 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

1. N-COUNT 试金石;验证手段;检验标准
   If you use one thing as a touchstone of 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。

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。
2. Harry Potter is such a cultural touchstone for children and adults the world over, that it's easy to forget that the characters and the world they live in doesn't actually exist.
   对于孩子和成年人来说，哈利波特无疑是世界的文化试金石。人们甚至太容易忘记，这些角色和他们生活的世界其实并不存在。
3. In recent years, her story became a touchstone for film histories, television dramas, a novel and an opera& all in some way exploring national identity in Asia.
   近年来，她的故事为若干历史题材的电影、电视剧，以及一部小说与一部歌剧提供了素材，而它们的主题都与在亚洲探索国家身份认同有关。
4. 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。
5. Not for the first time, Touchstone wished that he could reach the Charter and draw upon it for strength and magical assistance.
   这已经不是第一次了，塔奇斯顿希望他能够召唤咒契，利用力量和魔法相助。
6. 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？
7. 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。
8. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
   试金石试黄金，金子则考验人。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. Fine. where's the damn touchstone?
    好吧，那该死的试金石在哪儿？
12. The greatest touchstone of any work is time.
    时间是检验一切的最好的试金石。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. "She would know," said Touchstone, making a face& but at the prospect of raw carrots and green absinthe, not Sulyn.
    “她会知道的，”塔齐斯顿说，做了个鬼脸&但是在生胡萝卜和绿色的苦艾酒的期望上，不是萨莱恩。
16. The touchstone of a contract is the notion of equality.
    检验契约的标准是平等的观念。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. Success, a touchstone of opportunity, amBition, and aBility;
    成功是机遇、野心和能力的试金石；
23. As long as both sides are really in love, distance is a test of their touchstone.
    只要双方是真心相爱，距离就是考验他们的试金石。
24. Love be the touchstone of virtue.
    爱情是德行的试金石。
25. Love is the touchstone of virtue.
    爱情是美德的试金石。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. The touchstone maintains the weather on this planet.
    这个试金石能维持该行星上的气候。

noun

1. a basis for comparison
   1. the schools comply with federal standards
   2. they set the measure for all subsequent work

   Synonym:    standardcriterionmeasure