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

• 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。
• Based on it, compared with overseas researchful status of MICE tourism, the paper further discusses the intending researchful keystone and direction of MICE tourism.
  在此基础上，对比国外会展旅游研究状况，进而探讨了会展旅游未来的研究重点和方向。
• 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。
• 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。
• One additional service of Keystone is the service catalog used for end point discovery.
  Keystone的一个附加服务是用于端点发现的服务目录。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A pointed arch; usually has a joint ( instead of a keystone) at the apex.
  一种尖角拱；在顶点通常有一个接合点（而不是拱心石）。
• The public life in Shanghai alley and pedestrian streets is the keystone of the study.
  人们在上海弄堂和步行街中的公共生活，是本文研究的重点。