golden key

基本解释

A golden key will open every lock.
金钥匙可以打开每一把锁。
Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might one day tell us how we make the world in our heads.
注意力是神秘的人类意识中的重要内容；可能有一天，它可以回答这个问题：我们是如何在大脑里反映整个世界的？
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
哦，亲爱的，我说的什么废话呀”就在这一刹那，她的头撞到了大厅的屋顶上。她现在至少有九英尺高了，她急忙拿起小金钥匙向小花园的门跑去。

But he holds the golden key to the Treasury—and that will certainly be turned before the election.
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Unfortunately the US and all western economies have not learnt as yet what the golden key is to unleash the next phase of economic dynamism when it is constantly looking at them in the face.
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Indeed these SE Asian nations are now ripe to take the high ground in world economics with low debt, high investment power and now knowing that innovation is the golden key to capturing economic supremacy.
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