touchstones

Governance structures are repeatable touchstones that ensure that both providers and clients will set and live up to expectations.

治理结构是一种可重复的标准，它可以确保供应商和客户达成目标。

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved, who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and their readership and whose characters — from Oliver Twist to Tiny Tim — were held up as moral touchstones ．

1870年,狄更斯去世,全世界都为他哀悼,认为他是第一位受人爱戴的著名职业作家兼出版商；他在小说出版界和读者中引起了轰动，他的人物角色，像奥利弗·特维斯特、小蒂姆，被视为道德的试金石。

He composed fifty-four works in his whole life and many of them are still touchstones for the violinists, for example "Zigeunerweisen"," Fantasy on Carmen", "Introduction et tarantella" and "Spanish dance".

萨拉萨蒂一生创作54部作品，象《流浪者之歌》、《卡门》、《引子与塔兰台拉舞曲》、《西班牙舞曲》，至今仍是小提琴演奏家的试金石。

"stronger and more balanced growth, financial stability, these will be the key touchstones for the g20, " brainard said.

布雷纳德指出：“更强劲和更均衡的增长，以及金融稳定，这些都将是检验G20的关键标准。”

Calamity and prosperity are the touchstones of integrity.

不幸与幸运都是正直的试金石.

Other touchstones included a maple sugar shanty he once visited as a child, a community of Hobbitlike tiny houses called Trout Gulch built by some tech friends in Santa Cruz, Calif., and a yurt village built by a family in the Adirondacks.

他儿时去过的一个枫糖小屋、加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯科技界的一些朋友建造的霍比特式小屋社区鳟鱼峡谷（Trout Gulch），还有阿迪朗达克山区一户人家修建的蒙古包村，也都是克莱恩灵感的来源。