英语释义

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;

  "they set the measure for all subsequent work"

片语

norms[标準] 标準，规范；基準（norm复数形式）

Touchstone Television点金石

Touchstone Picture达奇史东制片公司

Touchstone Investments点金石基金管理公司

Paula Touchstone标签

Irish touchstone玄武巖

prototype原型；标準，模范

Touchstone Inn塔区斯通宾馆

criterion（批评判断的）标準；準则；规范；準据

Sue Touchstone标签

THE TOUCHSTONEThe Touchstone is the second album by British jazz trio Azimuth featuring trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, vocalist Norma Winstone, and pianist John Taylor recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography accessed September 13, 2011

Touchstone test试金石法

standard标準的；合规格的；公认为优秀的

level使同等；对準；弄平

英汉例句

• pic is the first to be distributed by touchstone under disney’s output deal with dreamworks.

  这是梦工厂与迪士尼签署发行协议后，第一部由试金石电影公司发行的电影。

• that may not be enough to satisfy protesters, for whom the beef issue has become a touchstone for a host of grievances against south korean president lee myung bak.

  但是这些可能都无法使韩国示威群众满意，对他们来说，美国牛肉问题已经成为他们对新总统李明博不满程度的试金石。

• egypt is the most important arab country and the touchstone for change in the arab world.

  埃及是最重要的阿拉伯国家，也是阿拉伯世界改革的试金石。

• it goes without saying that adversity is the touchstone of man-the harder the situation is, the more clearly a man「s strength is seen.

  很显然，不幸是人们成功与否的试金石，一个人的力量只有遭遇困境时才能被激发出来。

• 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準。

• her beauty is not a frivolous irrelevancy but a touchstone to a full life.

  女人漂亮的外表并非可有可无，相反，那是她一生是否完美的试金石。

• the installment, 「 using state machines」 (developerworks, august 2000), is the touchstone from which he explains the new concepts in this article.

  「 usingstatemachines」这一部分（developerworks，2000 年8 月）是他解释本文中新概念的标準。

• my golden rule - a simple touchstone to help all design decisions

  我的黄金法则——一个简单的试金石，以帮助所有的设计决策

• nonetheless, wonder woman remains a touchstone of popular culture, a symbol of feminism and an enduring piece of psychology history.

  然而，神力女超人依旧是流行文化的试金石和女权主义的象征，在心理学史上永远留下痕迹。

• while her argument against the idea of 「equality」 as the touchstone for woman」s relation to man points out the difficulties it engenders, the argument remains inconclusive.

  例如，她反对把「平等」作为检验女人对于男人的关系的试金石的观点，指出：这样一种观点会引起论证上的困难，然而，她的这个论点迄今依然没有结论。

• m.k.narayanan, mr singh's national-security adviser, called it 「a touchstone of atransformed bilateral relationship」.

  mrsingh的国家安全顾问——m.k.narayanan称其为「双边关系转型的试金石」。

• that pay has become a touchstone is no surprise.

  毫无疑问，薪资已成为一块试金石。

• though the pension reform does not touch students, it has become a touchstone for general grievances and a pretext for troublemakers to join in.

  虽然养老金改革并未触及学生，也同样成为各种抱怨的试金石和寻衅滋事的好借口。

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criterion（批评判断的）标準；準则；规范；準据