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单词

touchstone

读音
ˈtʌtʃstoʊn
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释义

n. 试金石;(检验)标准 n. (Touchstone)人名;(英)塔奇斯通 [ 复数 touchstones ]

例句

Job security has become the touchstone of a good job for many employees.
对许多雇员来说,工作的稳定性已经成了一份好工作的标准。
He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone.
他花了一整天的时间来做这件事,但没有一件能成为试金石。
The importance of Johnson's letter is not so much historical as emotional; it would become a touchstone for all who repudiated patrons and for all who embraced the laws of the marketplace.
约翰逊这封信的重要性与其说是历史上的,不如说是情感上的;它将成为所有否定资助者和所有拥护市场法则的人的试金石。

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And I see them as a road map, as a guide,as a touchstone for other parents to protectand to empower their children,
“I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like air.”This unflinching language has made Plath an important touchstonefor countless other readers and writers
their messages, their thoughts.This was going to be used as a touchstoneso when they started to miss each other
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GRE填空及阅读机经,各省高考英语阅读真题近六年,经济学人(The Economist)