cornerstone

1 Feigned ignorance is a cornerstone of white privilege, white supremacy and day-to-day racism.

2 The idea of comparative advantage has become the cornerstone of mordern thinking on international trade.

比较利益理论他成为现代国际贸易思想的基础.

3 Books and libraries were the cornerstones of Black freedom struggles.

4 The Youth League drafted a Program of Action, the cornerstone of which was a campaign of mass mobilization.

5 And whereas its productions of 19th-century classics used to be its cornerstone, leading the world in illuminating style, textual tradition and dramatic seriousness, none of its current ones are good enough.

6 “This potential deal is an important step to that end. The cornerstone of our plan has been to launch a new company that represents the best practices in corporate governance and transparency.”

7 Trust is the cornerstone of their relationship.

8 One of the cornerstones of the show is the celebrity guest judges every week.

9 Social Security is a cornerstone of income for nine in 10 retirees, and the vast majority began collecting their benefits well before age 70, when monthly payouts are highest.

10 You’ve described the song as being a cornerstone to the record.

11 A boycott of Georgia, whose film industry has been a cornerstone of the state’s economy for over a decade, was first widely floated by the Charmed actor Alyssa Milano.

12 Manual labor, however, remains the cornerstone of daily life.

13 “Suzy strove to live her life according to Quaker ideals,” Kanefield writes, “and a cornerstone of the Quaker faith was that all people — including women — were equal.”

14 While William Fox was doing his jail time, Walt Disney was beginning work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, that staggeringly innovative film that became a cornerstone of future Disney dominance.

15 With architecture and construction such a fascination in Chicago, cornerstone ceremonies became extravagant affairs.

16 Michael Conrad, who won two Emmys as grizzled cop Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues, was a cornerstone of the show, with his weekly roll call and plea of "Let's be careful out there."

17 Jonathan Sehring, the president of IFC Entertainment, which typically releases four to eight Cannes titles a year, called the festival “the cornerstone of my professional year.”

18 The Rite of Spring: brutal, edgy and primal, Stravinsky's masterpiece remains a cornerstone of contemporary music.

19 A cornerstone of the show looks back at the notorious French housing projects designed by Le Corbusier.

20 As a first-time gallery buyer, Wilcox said making the decision to purchase the space was daunting, but that he was pleased the gallery would remain a cornerstone of the Seattle visual arts scene.

1 基石

sill quoin foundation stone headstone keystone plinth footstone base rock

2 奠基石

foundation stone

3 最重要部分

fulcrum

4 墙角石

quoin

5 基本

ground basic primary ultimate elementary underlying radical elemental basal seminal rudimentary constitutive alphabet

6 隅石

quoin coign coigne pillar stone coin

7 基础

base element bed foundation basis footing keystone groundwork ABC underpinning rudiment substructure substratum fundament ground zero fabric pillar bedrock primary fundamental elementary underlying foot rest ground basic bedding rationale BASIC essential elemental basal bottom root infrastructure radical grammar basics fundamentals handmaiden the rudiments building blocks rudimentary stuff starting point backbone springboard rudiments plank grounding basilar pedestal anlage staddle principium understructure substruction toehold hdqrs. H.Q. headquarters basement baseline warp primordial firmament hypostasis donkeywork subjacency ABC's Hardpan underpinner

8 支柱

support stay shore prop spur brace pillar strut backbone mainstay crutch stilt bulwark fulcrum backstop stanchion trivet puncheon spile landtie

9 根本

basic fundamental radical literal intrinsic primal meat-and-potatoes any at all for toffee anything like ultimate underlying earthly bread-and-butter heart in any shape or form

10 柱石

wernerite pillar