英语词汇“linchpin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

linchpin

/ˈlɪn(t)ʃpɪn

(also lynchpin)

noun

1A pin passed through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position.He put the wheel back and secured it with a new linchpin, which he carved from a piece of wood.

2A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization: nurses are the linchpin of the National Health Service...

Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says.
But at the same time, she said that these memos, which after all was the lynchpin, the core of your broadcast, were not real.
The diversity and broad appeal that had been the linchpin of its success now drained away like vital oil.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old English lynis (in the sense 'linchpin') + pin.

单词	linchpin
释义	linchpin /ˈlɪn(t)ʃpɪn / (also lynchpin) noun 1A pin passed through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position.He put the wheel back and secured it with a new linchpin, which he carved from a piece of wood. 2A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization: nurses are the linchpin of the National Health Service... Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says. But at the same time, she said that these memos, which after all was the lynchpin, the core of your broadcast, were not real. The diversity and broad appeal that had been the linchpin of its success now drained away like vital oil. Origin Late Middle English: from Old English lynis (in the sense 'linchpin') + pin.
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