acid test

英 [ˌæsɪd ˈtest]

美 [ˌæsɪd ˈtest]

n.  决定性考验; 严峻的考验

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 决定性考验；严峻的考验
  a way of deciding whether sth is successful or true
  1. The acid test of a good driver is whether he or she remains calm in an emergency.
     在紧急情况下能否保持冷静是对一个好司机的严峻考验。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 决定性的试验；严峻的考验
  The acid testof something is an important aspect or result that it might have, which allows you to decide whether it is true or successful.
  1. The acid test of a school is 'would you send your own children there?'
     “你会将自己的孩子送去那里吗？”这一问题是衡量一所学校的试金石。

英英释义

noun

• a rigorous or crucial appraisal

双语例句

• This difficult task is the acid test for all of us.
  这项困难的工作对于我们大家都是一种严格考验。
• To optimize the extraction process of polysaccharide in indigowoadroot, and the use of phenol-sulphuric acid test of its content.
  从板蓝根中提取多糖，并用苯酚-硫酸测定其含量。
• The acid test of these small-class programmes, of course, is what happens to their graduates.
  当然，对这些小班课程的严峻考验表现在毕业生身上。
• The second is that we have witnessed some Euro-paralysis: the crisis has been an acid test for European institutions, and they did not pass the test because of policy inaction.
  第二，我们见证了某种欧洲瘫痪：危机是对欧洲机构的严峻考验，而它们因为政策上的不作为，未能通过考验。
• Application Study of the Blood Lactic Acid Test in the Jiangsu Middle-Distance Race Group
  血乳酸测试在江苏田径队中跑组训练中的应用研究
• The ACID test lets developers gauge the utility of a database system.
  ACID测试允许开发人员测量数据库系统的利用率。
• First, you should get acquainted with the ACID test, which provides a succinct encapsulation of the basic tenets of a relational database.
  首先，应熟悉ACID测试，它提供了对关系数据库基本原则的压缩封装。
• The state of the economy is usually the acid test of any government's success.
  经济状况通常是对政府成功与否的检验。
• For critical e-business or Web-based applications, passing the ACID test is a must.
  对于关键的电子商务或基于Web的应用程序，通过ACID测试是必不可少的。
• For performance reasons ( and to satisfy the ACID test), the database spreads data into a number of files.
  由于性能原因（并满足ACID测试），数据库将数据分摊到许多文件中。