- 看过 cornerstone 的人也看了 :
- mainstay
- foundation
- pillar
- keystone
- essential
- linchpin
- base
- anchor
- mainspring
cornerstone 的定义
- a stone uniting two masonry walls at an intersection.
- a stone representing the nominal starting place in the construction of a monumental building, usually carved with the date and laid with appropriate ceremonies.
- something that is essential, indispensable, or basic: The cornerstone of democratic government is a free press.
- the chief foundation on which something is constructed or developed: The cornerstone of his argument was that all people are created equal.
cornerstone 近义词
vital element
更多cornerstone例句
- The bar has been a cornerstone of American culture from the very beginning.
- A cornerstone of American elections has been the peaceful transition of power, but as research from the Transition Integrity Project and others underscores, there are multiple ways to contest an election.
- Many of the cornerstones of the TV advertising calendar have been canceled or disrupted, and there’s nothing to fill the gap.
- GM is already building a nearly 3-million-square-foot factory that will mass produce Ultium battery cells and packs, the cornerstone of the company’s strategy to bring those electric vehicles to market in the next three years.
- Cook has turned the app store into the cornerstone of a services division that he set out to expand four years ago.
- Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
- The cornerstone of our democracy is that justice is to be colorblind in its administration.
- Giants are the cornerstone of the myths, legends, and traditions of almost every culture on Earth.
- Back then, property was understood by universal consensus as a foundational cornerstone of human liberty and a life worth living.
- The character-building cornerstone of American life has lately come under fire for ills ranging from racism to concussions.
- To lose our privileges would be to lose the very cornerstone of our liberty.
- The Saratoga trunk is not the best cornerstone for the home: so much we may take for granted.
- They went as a team and gave me about as much chance to escape as if I'd been a horned toad sealed in a cornerstone.
- Pizarro was now very busy in developing the new country he had conquered, and in laying the cornerstone of a nation.
- Confidence—a justified confidence—is therefore the cornerstone of morale.