keystone

英 [ˈkiːstəʊn]

美 [ˈkiːstoʊn]

n.  拱顶石; (计划、论据的)主旨，基础

复数：keystones　

IELTS

BNC.21380 / COCA.17516

牛津词典

noun

• 拱顶石
  the central stone at the top of an arch that keeps all the other stones in position
• （计划、论据的）主旨，基础
  the most important part of a plan or argument that the other parts depend on

柯林斯词典

• 拱顶石
  Akeystoneis a stone at the top of an arch, which keeps the other stones in place by its weight and position.
• N-COUNT （政策、体系或进程的）基础，主旨
  Akeystone ofa policy, system, or process is an important part of it, which is the basis for later developments.
  1. Keeping inflation low is the keystone of their economic policy.
     将通货膨胀率保持在较低水平是他们经济政策的主旨。

英英释义

noun

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
  Synonym:keyheadstone
• a central cohesive source of support and stability
  1. faith is his anchor
  2. the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
  3. he is the linchpin of this firm
  Synonym:anchormainstaybackbonelinchpinlynchpin

双语例句

• Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
  勤劳是事业的灵魂和成功的基石。
• Nowadays, biosorbents become the hotspot and keystone of the researches on treating heavy metals and POPs.
  目前，生物吸附剂已成为处理重金属和持久性有机污染物研究的热点和重点。
• In this paper, the general situation of mountain ecosystem was briefly introduced and the effects of keystone populations on the degraded ecosystem were discussed.
  简要介绍了岷江上游山地生态系统的概况，讨论了关键种群在退化生态系统研究中的作用和意义。
• Japan's co-operation was the keystone in developing the regional agreement.
  日本的合作是发展地区和睦的基础。
• We recognize that keystone has been caught up in political gridlock in this country.
  我们知道Keystone项目已在美国陷入了政治僵局。
• It takes the moral selection as a core and the innovative ability& the development of practical ability as a keystone.
  选择教育以道德选择为核心，以创新精神和实践能力的培养为重点，而人的全面和谐发展是选择教育的最根本理念。
• One of keystone's primary functions is to serve as a service catalog.
  keystone的主要功能之一就是充当服务目录。
• HTTPS is the keystone of Internet security and privacy.
  HTTPS现在是互联网安全和隐私保护的基石。
• The keystone of this paper was to establish and calibrate and validate these four new modules.
  本文的研究重点是建立和验证新增的四个模块。
• Note that keystone and nova use slightly different variable names in their client initializer methods, so I define separate functions for each.
  请注意，keystone和nova在其客户端初始化器方法中使用了稍微不同的变量名，所以我为每个工具定义了不同的函数。