| 单词 | litmus |
| 释义 | litmus noun[U] uk/ˈlɪt.məs/us/ˈlɪt.məs/apowderthat isturnedredbyacidandbluebyalkali: 石蕊litmuspaper石蕊试纸 a litmustest石蕊测试 See also litmus test Laboratory equipment
litmus| American Dictionarylitmus noun[U] us/ˈlɪt·məs/chemistry apowderthat isturnedredbyacidandbluebyalkali(=substancewith theoppositechemicalreactionasacid) Examplesoflitmuslitmus The communal variables indicate that those persons who are thelitmustest for the community have indeed been male. From theCambridge English Corpus Thelitmustest for any formal theory lies in its predictive ability. From theCambridge English Corpus That is why it functions as alitmustest for the overman; it tests his ability to live without the salvation of meaning. From theCambridge English Corpus Taking them together we get a goodlitmustest on recent thinking on the evolution of monetary relations from a political economy perspective. From theCambridge English Corpus Thelitmustest was the quantity of goods. From theCambridge English Corpus The ability of an institution to outlive its initial founder is thelitmustest of institutionalisation. From theCambridge English Corpus More troubling is the impliedlitmustest - that countries that have gotten this right will be identifiable because they will not make ' policy errors'. From theCambridge English Corpus In the bilingual case, thelitmustest for the presence of lexical sharing is the presence of cross-language semantic priming effects. From theCambridge English Corpus It holds this option to thelitmusof bioethical principles and pragmatism, notes the proposed system's strengths and weaknesses, and calls for pilot programs. From theCambridge English Corpus If a government's goodness is to be defined by the nature and consequences of its policies, which policies and which results should be used aslitmustests? From theCambridge English Corpus Coordinate semantics disallows backward pronominalization and this phenomenon thus provides anotherlitmustest for semantic coordinatehood. From theCambridge English Corpus The secretion was acid tolitmus. From theCambridge English Corpus It forms an enlightening and hitherto unusedlitmustest of cardenista intentions and abilities in the national process of pushing reform on often reluctant regional actors. From theCambridge English Corpus This establishes that cannot be used like x if it is to pass thelitmustest for branching time of distinguishing a(b + c) from ab + ac. From theCambridge English Corpus That is a goodlitmuspaper for deciding whether a system is working well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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