砥柱 meaning in English

1.(砥柱山) dizhu mount (a firm rock in the midstream of the huanghe river)
2.(比喻坚强的、能起支柱作用的个人或集体) mainstay 短语和例子

Every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time .
大学所培植出的每个人应该是国家的栋梁及时代的砥柱。
Money is the sinews of love , as of war
无钱莫打仗。（或译：金钱是战争的砥柱。）
He had a sound feeling that idiom was the backbone of a language and he was all for the racy phrase
他明智的认为成语为语言之中流砥柱，最喜锋利见血之辞。
The paper gives a mechanical and history analysis on the characteristic of laojunshan metamorphic core complex in southeastern yunnan and its structural environment , and considers that metamorphic core complex is actually a nuclear column of a vortex structure , which was caused by the wenshan ? malipo strike - slip fault
通过滇东南老君山变质核杂岩特征及周围构造环境的力学分析及历史分析认为，该变质核杂岩实质上是旋扭构造的砥柱，而旋扭构造又源于文山?麻栗坡断裂的走滑运动，拆离伸展构造晚于旋扭构造。