- touchstone (of/for something)
something that provides a standard against which other things are compared and/or judged 试金石;检验标准 the touchstone for quality 检验质量的标准
Extra ExamplesGrammar was regarded as the touchstone of all language performance. 语法被认为是所有语言表现的试金石。 He has been a guiding beacon in my life and a touchstone of human integrity. 他一直是我生命中的指路明灯,是人类正直的试金石。 She remained for them a touchstone of good sense. 对他们来说,她仍然是明智的试金石。 The nineteenth-century struggle to reconstitute Poland was a touchstone for liberals and socialists alike. 十九世纪重建波兰的斗争是自由主义者和社会主义者的试金石。 The way medicines are sold has become one of the touchstone issues of modern capitalism. 药品的销售方式已经成为现代资本主义的试金石之一。