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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Social justice is the keystone of their political program.
  社会公平是他们政治纲领的基本原则。
• Keystone is to study the maneuverability and how to cut out the management technology to reduced cost, achieve the management targets of project in the middle and small software development enterprise.
  重点研究可操作性和管理技术如何裁剪使管理成本降低，达到中小软件开发企业项目管理目标。
• 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。
• It can obtain these parameters from Keystone, as well.
  也可以从Keystone中获得这些参数。
• 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。
• That is the ideal condition that I need, its keystone lies in the experience.
  这才是我想要的理想状态，它的重点是一种体验。