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词汇 keystone
释义 keystone
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkiː.stəʊn/ us /ˈkiː.stoʊn/

keystonenoun[C] (STONE)


architecture specialized
the middle stone in the top of an arch that has a special shape and holds all the other stones in position拱顶石;塞缝石
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: arches, columns & beams
abutment
arch
architrave
archway
beam
beamy
capital
colonnade
Corinthian
Doric
ionic
joist
pedestal
portico
soffit
torus
vault
vaulted
vaulting

keystonenoun[C] (IMPORTANT PART)


the most important part of a plan, idea, etc. on which everything else depends(计划、想法等的)基础,主旨,基本原则
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Important and essential things
-based
amenity
at the core of something
bare
be-all
focal point
foreground
foundation stone
fulcrum
fundament
grandaddy
heavyweight
imperative
need
nexus
nitty-gritty
nub
nucleus
the grandaddy of somethingidiom
the name of the gameidiom

keystone | Business English


keystone
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkiːstəʊn/us
the most important part of a plan, idea, etc. on which everything else depends:
Selling overseas has been, and always will remain, one of the keystones of our national prosperity.
A keystone of its corporate strategy is to invest in people, technology, and training to create a brand.

Examples of keystone


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The keystones are richly carved and the arch soffit is deeply coffered and enriched.
Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: is single-species management pass' in the e landscape era?
The assumption that "consent" is the source of a government's legitimacy represents a conceptual keystone in liberal theory.
Thus, this sector has been identified as a keystone for agricultural development in these developing nations.
However, those treatments containing high proportions of alfalfa also attracted higher numbers of herbivorous keystone species.
In this paper the concept of keystone plant resources is reviewed using potential candidates proposed in the literature for neotropical forest sites.
Such research should concentrate on the regeneration after fire and the modes of establishment of keystone species.
The importance of this species as a potential keystone resource for the frugivore community is discussed.
The doctrine taught in them is that the irresistible development of democracy is the keystone of the modern situation.
The resection of the outlet septum is the keystone of the technique.
The keystone concept also may be applied to many trematodes in their roles as indicator species.
In this sense then, molluscs can be considered as keystone species for digenetic trematodes.
The keystone of his work not only in economics but also in political and legal theory is the idea of" spontaneous order".
The keystone species concept: variation in interaction strength in a rocky intertidal habitat.
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