Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

梦想乃品质之试金石。

Calamity and prosperity are the touchstones of integrity.

不幸与幸运都是正直的试金石.

It was a set of critical and rhetorical practices that sought to destabilise the modernist touchstones of identity, historical progress and epistemic certainty.

它是一套批评和修辞的实践，旨在动摇现代主义者的试金石：身份认同、历史进步和认知肯定。

Calling the new curbs on lobbying the strictest in any administration, Obama told staff that transparency and the rule of law would be the touchstones of his presidency.

通过这项比以往任何政府更为严格的对游说活动的限制，奥巴马告诉他的职员，透明度和法律将是他总统任期中的标准。