yardstick
美 [?jɑrd?st?k] 
英 [?jɑ?(r)d?st?k]
- n.準繩；碼尺；（好壞或成敗的）衡量標準
- 網絡尺度；標尺；尺碼
詞形變化
復數：yardsticks 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 碼尺a ruler for measuring one yard |
2. | （好壞或成敗的）衡量標準；準繩a standard used for judging how good or successful sth is |
| a yardstick by which to measure sth 衡量某事物的標準 |
| Exam results are not the only yardstick of a school's performance. 考試結果不是衡量學校水平的唯一標準。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
When a crisis endangering the lives of others, you and I make a response to what has become of you and I value the most important yardstick.
當危機危及他人的生命的時候，你和我作出怎樣的反應也就成為你和我存在的價值的最重要的尺度。
A generalisation that has often been used is to regard nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities as the yardstick.
一種廣為應用的方法是將核武器與彈道導彈能力作為準繩。
Not knowing her times tables, she was paralyzed with fear that the teacher who smacked students' hands with a yardstick would call on her.
她不知道她的課程表，當這個常常用戒尺拍打學生手掌的老師叫她回答問題的時候，她因為恐懼而變的僵硬麻痹。
But to have to have good, and I cannot hold yardstick, but because there was a with worry.
而對已經要擁有的美好，我又因為把握不住尺度，而存在一份忐忑與擔心。
It was a little later that he followed up the attack with two short essays, "The Wonder-Dreamers" and "The Yardstick of the Ego. "
以后不久他又寫了兩篇短文：《奇跡夢想者》和《自我的尺度》，繼續進行攻擊。
nor feasible for any country to judge other countries by the yardstick of its own mode or to impose its own mode on others.
拿自己的模式作標準，去評判其他國家，把自己的模式強加于人，既不恰當，也根本行不通。
Recently, he said that sheer size, in terms of market capitalisation, is not the right yardstick to measure the bank's might.
最近，他談到以市場資本化的方式做大規模，不是衡量銀行的最佳方案。
What yardstick can be used to measure progress or to measure things against?
采用什么標桿來衡量事情的進展？
If the US were to adhere to this yardstick, its banks would be forced to take up about 20 per cent of the overall federal debt stock.
如果美國也遵從這種標準，其銀行將被迫持有聯邦債務總存量的20%左右。
Since that time we've been delighted to see that the Alexa Rankings have become a yardstick by which website popularity is measured.
自那時以來，我們已經欣喜地看到，在Alexa的排名已經成為一個準繩，使網站人氣，是衡量。
If electoral competitiveness were the only yardstick to judge a democracy, India today would qualify as a great success.
如果選舉競爭的激烈程度是評判一個民主國家的唯一標準，那今天的印度可謂一個偉大的成就。
But from a long yardstick, the ultimate economic or to return to a six-party talks negotiating table.
但是從一個長尺度來看，最終經濟還是要回到一個六方會談談判桌。
In an age of globalization, central bankers can't just look at inflation as a yardstick, economists said in Kuala Lumpur.
在全球化時代，央行不能通脹看作唯一的標準，在吉隆坡參會的經濟學家們表示。
Twenty years ago they said the yardstick against which India should be measured was its potential.
20年前，他們表示，衡量印度的標準應該看它是不是充滿潛力。
Spiritual humility, his care is the yardstick against the temptation of a solid bastion of resistance material is not bad erosion.
心靈的謙恭，為人的謹慎，才是對抗物欲誘惑的堅實堡壘，才是反抗物欲侵蝕的不壞金身。
As the result of rethinking, the cordial yardstick, good proportion and rich details in the landscape design are concerned by people again.
作為這種反思的結果，在道路景觀設計中，親切的尺度，良好的比例以及豐富的細節重新成為人們所關注的問題。
When he stoops to get the yardstick, a print cartridge drops out of his coat.
當他彎腰去撿尺子的時候，從他的外套里又掉出來一個打印機墨盒。
However, Tao Wang, an economist at UBS, argues that this rich-world yardstick is misleading.
然而，瑞銀集團的經濟學家汪濤認為，富裕國家的衡量標準有所誤導。
These subjects are used as a yardstick against which to measure the children's progress.
這些科目是用來衡量孩子進步的尺度。
The first step is an accurate measurement of the walls that are to be covered. Use a yardstick or steel tape measure.
第一步就是精確測量被覆蓋了的墻面，使用標尺或者鋼卷尺測量。
The choices you have as a result of free will is not meant to be exercised in a vacuum but in accordance with the yardstick of divine law.
你的選擇，作為自由意志的結果，并不意味著在真空中（：與世隔絕，脫離現實）運用，而是依照神圣律法之準繩。
And so having the opportunity to be here as a yardstick has I think been extraordinarily important and of great benefit to all of us.
所以我認為有機會來到這里，對于我們大家都是一個極其重要的標尺，都有巨大的裨益。
The yardstick of comparison for those who assess and criticize must be UN principles and resolutions, away from any expediencies.
他說：“對于那些批評誰評估和比較的尺度，必須聯合國原則和決議，遠離任何權宜之計。”
By that yardstick, Gone With The Wind's sales are worth a rather daunting $26bn in today's money.
按照這一標準計算，《飄》的票房收入相當于今天的260億美元——這個數目高得令人敬畏。
Besides, in the specific confirmation, the consumer awareness should be considered as the yardstick, but not professional standard.
在判斷基準上應以消費者的認識為準繩，而排除專業人員基準。
As a result of this principle, safety is a major yardstick of management's performance.
這個原則的結果是，安全是管理人員業績的主要的衡量標準。
Questioner: I observe myself without a yardstick, and I'm still ugly.
發問者：我不用標準來觀察我自己，可我還是丑陋的。
Incidents like these may be trivial, but they show that foreigners are measured by a different yardstick to Chinese.
此類事件或許后果無足輕重，但足以證明外國人在中國人眼里的評價標準完全是自立一套的。
His yardstick for assessing the costs was whether the economy can be expanded by such measures.
他評估行動成本的標準，是這些措施能否推動經濟增長。
Health care policy, international relations and military policy are all measured by this crude and self-serving yardstick.
國家醫療政策，國際關系及軍事政策也全都是根據這個原則制定的——原始并且自私自利。
Breaking out the yardstick to determine mountain from molehill can sometimes help clear your head.
有時候，拿尺子來區分大山、小丘可以幫你清晰頭腦。
But when results deteriorate, most managers favor disposition of the yardstick rather than disposition of the manager.
但當結果惡化時，大多數管理者青睞替換衡量尺度，而不是替換管理者。
Distinguish between analog and digital signals yardstick is to look at its value is continuous or discrete, rather than of time.
區分模擬信號和數字信號的準繩是看其取值是連續的還是離散的，而不是看時間。
In real-world market-based economies, profit as the sole yardstick leads to transfers of value from individuals to corporations.
在現實世界中基于市場的經濟體，利潤是唯一的標準，它導致價值從個人轉移給了企業。
We shall use it as a yardstick in the following brief survey of the theories of static fatigue.
我們在下面的靜態疲勞理論的主要研究中將用它作為一個衡量的尺度。
If sports is any yardstick to measure the masculine, perhaps these two are the best images of Chinese men.
如果體育是衡量陽剛的標準，也許這兩個男人就是中國男人的最佳典型。
Fatally, European decisions end up being judged against the sole yardstick of sovereignty, rather than that of Britain's interests.
這么一來，歐洲決策就不可避免地把國家主權，作為其唯一的標準，倒是把英國國家利益撇到一邊兒去了。
Daily value-at-risk (VAR) is a common industry yardstick used to measure potential losses.
每日風險值（VAR）是用以衡量潛在虧損的常見行業標準。
This should be the yardstick should be the only criteria.
這應該是衡量的標準，也應該是唯一的標準。
But by Mr Bush's yardstick, the effort has been a failure.
但是按照布什的標準，這項努力失敗了。
