object lesson

英 [ˈɒbdʒekt lesn]

美 [ˈɑːbdʒekt lesn]

n.  借鉴; 经验教训

牛津词典

noun

• 借鉴；经验教训
  a practical example of what you should or should not do in a particular situation

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （作为教训或说明原则的）实例
  If you describe an action, event, or situation as anobject lesson, you think that it demonstrates the correct way to do something, or that it demonstrates the truth of a particular principle.
  1. It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
     这是如何利用电视进行劝服的一个实际例子。

英英释义

noun

• punishment intended as a warning to others
  1. they decided to make an example of him
  Synonym:exampledeterrent examplelesson

双语例句

• The European Union is clearly an object lesson, both in what to do and, possibly, in what to avoid.
  在要做什么、以及要避免什么这两方面，欧盟（eu）显然是活生生的例子。
• This paper discusses the choice of intercept plan, the construction method and object lesson of the rubber dam cofferdam in Qiqihar City zone to be referenced for the colleagues.
  阐述了齐齐哈尔市城区橡胶坝围堰截流方案的选择、施工方法及经验与教训，供同行参考。
• I know that some now criticize the action in Libya as an object lesson.
  我知道，现在有些人将利比亚的行动作为实物教育加以批评。
• The way she handled this situation provided an object lesson in how to deal with a dissatisfied customer.
  在如何对待不满意的顾客方面，她处理这件事情的方法可供参考。
• Just look at the task force as an object lesson.
  看看特遣舰队这个实例吧。
• The object lesson for your staff and the company will be the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the political employee gets the raise.
  员工得到了实际教训，公司里会哭的孩子有奶吃，懂政治的员工得到了加薪。
• The US sector, where efficient plants are hiring again, is an object lesson in the virtues of tough love.
  美国汽车业一些效率高的工厂开始重新招聘了，这一实例展现了“严厉的爱”的优点。
• A decade of bitter experience in Afghanistan has been an object lesson in the difficulty of using the military to tackle a "failed state".
  出兵阿富汗的10年惨痛经历带来一个客观的教训：用军队对付一个“失败国家”是很难的。
• As for the EU, the only lesson it has lately offered the rest of the world is an object lesson in beggar-thy-neighbour disunity.
  至于欧盟，世界其它地区最近能从它身上汲取到的唯一教训，是以邻为壑的不团结带来的活生生的教训。
• San Antonio, Texas, offers an object lesson for numerous other cities combating urban decay.
  德克萨斯州的圣。安东尼奥为许多其它的城市抗击城市衰退提供了一堂实物教学课。