lodestar

lodestar

美 [ˈloʊdˌstɑr] 　英 [ˈləʊdˌstɑː(r)]

• n.北极星（海员借以导航）；（某人行为或行动的）指导原则
• 网络北极星轰炸机；乐达；北斗星

词形变化

复数：lodestars  

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.	1. 同“loadstar”

英英解释

n.	1. Same as loadstar 2. a principle that always influences or directs your actions 3. the north star

例句

But whatever its short-term usefulness for clamping down on inflation, monetarism proved an unreliable lodestar for steering the economy.

但无论货币主义对降低通货膨胀在短期内是多么有效，它并不是掌控经济的可靠原则。

It would also have to set interest rates, and would need a lodestar, probably an inflation target, to guide it.

它也将设定利率，可能要通货膨胀目标这样的北极星来指引利率。

If the "Lodestar of the 21st Century" (as he is known at home) looks after himself, he could live for decades.

如果这位“21世纪的北极星”（在朝鲜国内，人们这么称呼他）照顾好自己的话，他还能活上几十年。

For now there seems little alternative to the dollar as a financial lodestar and the main storehouse for the world's precautionary saving.

目前看来，除美元之外没有第二种货币能作为全球金融的标志和避险储蓄的存放宝库。

The economies of the Middle East and north Africa have no such lodestar.

中东和北非经济体则没有这样的导航者。

The Kennedys, of course, never completed the cycle and so remain frozen in their lodestar position.

当然，肯尼迪夫妇从未完成这个周期，而且依旧处于他们所在的指导地位。

This is certainly the vision in the Organization Department, and they see legitimacy as their political lodestar.

这也是中共组织部的愿景，他们把合法性视为他们的政治目标。

The same firm as the lodestar

会像北极星一样坚定