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单词 linchpin
释义
linchpinlinch‧pin, lynchpin /ˈlɪntʃˌpɪn/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINlinchpin
Origin:
1300-1400 linch ‘pin fastening a wheel to an axle’ (11-16 centuries) (from Old English lynis) + pin
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Apparently she accepted that she was the primary caretaker of her children and the linchpin of family life.
  • Consumer goods industries were the linchpin, and these were overwhelmingly located in the West Midlands and in and around Greater London.
  • Dalton Baldwin's linchpin accompaniments are all that one could hope for in terms of grace and humour.
  • Divas are often the financial linchpins for opera productions costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  • Erme was the linchpin of the whole thing.
  • Removing the middle would be like removing the linchpin.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • My mother had always been the linchpin of our family.
  • Apparently she accepted that she was the primary caretaker of her children and the linchpin of family life.
  • Erme was the linchpin of the whole thing.
  • The modesty of the Arab woman is the linchpin of the whole political system.
the linchpin of something the person or thing in a group, system etc that is most important, because everything depends on them
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