litmus test

英 [ˈlɪtməs test]

美 [ˈlɪtməs test]

n. 石蕊试验

机械

牛津词典

noun

石蕊试验
a test using litmus

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 试金石；立见分晓的检验办法
If you say that something is alitmus test ofsomething, you mean that it is an effective and definite way of proving it or measuring it.
1. Ending the fighting must be the absolute priority, the litmus test of the agreements' validity...
  停火绝对是第一要务，也是检验协议是否有效的试金石。
2. The success of wind power represents a litmus test for renewable energy.
  风能作为动力的成功是对可再生能源一次立见分晓的检验。

英英释义

noun

a test that relies on a single indicator
1. her litmus test for good breeding is whether you split infinitives
a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions
Synonym:litmus

双语例句

You can discover the acidity of the solution with a litmus test.
你可用石蕊来测试溶液的酸度。
Success and fame are often the litmus test of one's character.
成功和名誉往往是对一个人的人格考验。
Here's the litmus test you can use in order to determine if you are one.
你可以用下面的测试来确定一下你是否是个好男人。
To me it's a litmus test for people about who they are and how they perceive the world and how secure they are about themselves.
我只把这电影当作人们认清他们是谁，他们如何观察这个世界和他们如何看待他们自己的试金石。
Now, I would not provide a litmus test.
现在，我不会提供石蕊测试。
Now you'll use Apache Pluto to see if your portlet passes the litmus test of JSR168 compliance.
现在使用ApachePluto来查明portlet是否能通过JSR168兼容性的最终测试。
But does aviation really serve as a litmus test for such a transformation?
但是通过航空业的发展真的能够看出上述转变过程的推进吗？
The success of wind power represents a litmus test for renewable energy.
风能作为动力的成功是对可再生能源一次立见分晓的检验。
The ideologues are applying a new litmus test for such deals whether an industry is "surnamed Chinese or surnamed foreign".
理论家正用新的标准对这些交易进行检验，即一个行业“姓中，还是姓外”。
In both of these cases, I take it, Socrates'point is that his own individual moral integrity stands as a kind of litmus test, you might say, for whether to engage or disengage from political life.
从这两场事件看来，苏格拉底的观点是，他自己个人的道德正直，经得起立见分晓的检验，我们可以看到无论参与，政治生活与否。