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。
• 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。
• Presently the study keystone of the technique is how to improve its accuracy and sensitiveness to measure.
  目前对该技术的研究重点是如何提高它的测试准确性和灵敏度。
• 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。
• 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。
• How to construct terrain models and their texture is a research keystone.
  方便、有效地建立地形模型及其纹理是地形景观研究的重点。
• 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。
• Annotation is the keystone of the knowledge representation of any natural language processing ( NLP) research.
  标注集是任何自然语言处理研究中的知识表达基础。
• Administrative functions in Keystone define users and projects and assign the appropriate authorization.
  Keystone中的管理功能定义了用户和项目，并分配了适当的授权。
• 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。