Touchstone
['tʌtʃstəʊn] or ['tʌtʃ'ston]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
(n.) Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Basanite, black jasper, Lydian stone.[2]. Test, criterion, proof, ordeal, assay, touch.
校對:路易丝
例句/造句/用法:
- His own knowledge was high, she was the central touchstone of truth. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There is, of course, no infallible touchstone by which we can tell offhand. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Gold can be only known by the application of the touchstone. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You appear to me to be the very touchstone of responsibility. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But as a fact of immediate politics, as a touchstone applied quickly to all the acts of statecraft in America it belongs to the Twentieth Century. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
手打:帕特丽夏