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单词 touchstone
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touchstone
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtʌtʃ.stəʊn/us
/ˈtʌtʃ.stoʊn/
anestablishedstandardorprincipleby which something isjudged:
检验标准，试金石
Untilrelativelyrecently, theJapanesecarindustrywas the touchstoneofinternationalsuccess.直到近几年，日本的汽车工业一直都是衡量是否在国际上取得成功的业界标杆。
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(Definition oftouchstonefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

touchstone| American Dictionary

touchstone
noun[C]
us
/ˈtʌtʃˌstoʊn/
abasicprincipleforjudgingquality:
Perfectserviceis the touchstone of afinerestaurant.
(Definition oftouchstonefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftouchstone

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The created dependency highlighted in his eloquent essay of nearly 30 years ago has been atouchstone.
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They certainly didn't believe that money was thetouchstonefor what happens cyclically.
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Moreover, there is an emphasis throughout on such touchstones of postmodern thought as fracture, multiplicity, otherness and dissonance.
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Theirtouchstonewas legal and financial rectitude rather than any wider 'service to the community'.
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Each offers different touchstones for a comparative analysis of actor preferences and political outcomes.
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The fiscal gulf became atouchstonefor sound finance, with the rehabilitation largely to be accomplished by retrenchment as opposed to increased taxation.
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Mathematical constructivism regards provability as thetouchstonefor mathematical propositions because proofs are created and comprehended by the mind.
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In other words, such touchstones cannot systematically amount to reasons-foraction which carr y weight that is independent of their substantive worthiness.
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They have served, in their respective times, as teleological touchstones because they seem to originate beyond human subjectivity, motivation and knowledge.
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In reading any such book, a reviewer swiftly identifies areas of personal experience, the discussion of which becomes atouchstonefor the rest.
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Yet thetouchstoneof fit would have no purchase if the law were largely unsettled from one moment to the next.
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In this context investment in energy became thetouchstonefor proposals of rapid industrial development, establishing a link between modernisation and the nationalisation of resources.
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Let us accustom ourselves to try every opinion by thetouchstoneof fact and experience.
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Sometimes philosophers malign it as the product of a "scientistic" ideology that unthinkingly takes science as thetouchstoneof what is real.
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As an exhaustive summary of previous research and a clearly articulated program for progress, it could become atouchstonein the linguistic human rights movement.
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