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

• Richadrd's experience was an object lesson in how not to organize a holiday.
  理查德的经历是未妥善安排休假的一个实例。
• This thesis takes Huainan City as research object, states the feasibility and actuality of design for optimizing coal-mine city space structure by conducting development strategy of Huainan City Space, provide a certain lesson for developing Chinese coal-mining city space structure.
  论文以淮南城市作为实证研究对象，通过淮南城市空间的发展战略思考阐明煤矿城市空间结构优化构想的现实性，为我国煤矿城市的空间发展提供一定借鉴。
• Consider my life an object lesson.
  把我的生命当作一个目标课程。
• 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。
• 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 disalter was an object lesson in how not to run a ship.
  这场灾难是说明不该如何驾船的一个实例。
• 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。
• 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。
• Just look at the task force as an object lesson.
  看看特遣舰队这个实例吧。