Question of the Day #941

‘Shrek’ at 20: How the Soundtrack Became a Millennial Cultural Touchstone

From the headline of this article at Variety.

  上記の文で、touchstoneの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "touchstone" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 〔金や銀などの〕試金石◆かつて金などの品質を調べるためにこすり付けた、玄武岩などの固く黒い石。
2. 〔他のものを試す〕試金石、基準

   

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

1. a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.
2. a black siliceous stone formerly used to test the purity of gold and silver by the color of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal.

   

Examples

• Good service is one touchstone of a first-class restaurant.
• Silicon Valley Bank, whose demise precipitated the turmoil, isn’t Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose bankruptcy in September 2008 became the touchstone event of the Great Recession. — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Since its release, Pi has become a touchstone for the math obsessed. — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Texas senator had hoped to hound the frontrunner on his erratic record on touchstone conservative issues. Times, Sunday Times (2016)
• With prescription drug abuse now classed as an epidemic in America, it has become something of a cultural touchstone. Times, Sunday Times (2013)

   

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