yardstick
美 [ˈjɑrdˌstɪk] 
英 [ˈjɑː(r)dˌstɪk]
- n.准绳；码尺；（好坏或成败的）衡量标准
- 网络尺度；标尺；尺码
词形变化
复数：yardsticks 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 码尺a ruler for measuring one yard |
2. | （好坏或成败的）衡量标准；准绳a standard used for judging how good or successful sth is |
| a yardstick by which to measure sth 衡量某事物的标准 |
| Exam results are not the only yardstick of a school's performance. 考试结果不是衡量学校水平的唯一标准。 |
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英英解释
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.
当危机危及他人的生命的时候，你和我作出怎样的反应也就成为你和我存在的价值的最重要的尺度。
A generalisation that has often been used is to regard nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities as the yardstick.
一种广为应用的方法是将核武器与弹道导弹能力作为准绳。
Not knowing her times tables, she was paralyzed with fear that the teacher who smacked students' hands with a yardstick would call on her.
她不知道她的课程表，当这个常常用戒尺拍打学生手掌的老师叫她回答问题的时候，她因为恐惧而变的僵硬麻痹。
But to have to have good, and I cannot hold yardstick, but because there was a with worry.
而对已经要拥有的美好，我又因为把握不住尺度，而存在一份忐忑与担心。
It was a little later that he followed up the attack with two short essays, "The Wonder-Dreamers" and "The Yardstick of the Ego. "
以后不久他又写了两篇短文：《奇迹梦想者》和《自我的尺度》，继续进行攻击。
nor feasible for any country to judge other countries by the yardstick of its own mode or to impose its own mode on others.
拿自己的模式作标准，去评判其他国家，把自己的模式强加于人，既不恰当，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，他谈到以市场资本化的方式做大规模，不是衡量银行的最佳方案。
What yardstick can be used to measure progress or to measure things against?
采用什么标杆来衡量事情的进展？
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.
如果美国也遵从这种标准，其银行将被迫持有联邦债务总存量的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.
自那时以来，我们已经欣喜地看到，在Alexa的排名已经成为一个准绳，使网站人气，是衡量。
If electoral competitiveness were the only yardstick to judge a democracy, India today would qualify as a great success.
如果选举竞争的激烈程度是评判一个民主国家的唯一标准，那今天的印度可谓一个伟大的成就。
But from a long yardstick, the ultimate economic or to return to a six-party talks negotiating table.
但是从一个长尺度来看，最终经济还是要回到一个六方会谈谈判桌。
In an age of globalization, central bankers can't just look at inflation as a yardstick, economists said in Kuala Lumpur.
在全球化时代，央行不能通胀看作唯一的标准，在吉隆坡参会的经济学家们表示。
Twenty years ago they said the yardstick against which India should be measured was its potential.
20年前，他们表示，衡量印度的标准应该看它是不是充满潜力。
Spiritual humility, his care is the yardstick against the temptation of a solid bastion of resistance material is not bad erosion.
心灵的谦恭，为人的谨慎，才是对抗物欲诱惑的坚实堡垒，才是反抗物欲侵蚀的不坏金身。
As the result of rethinking, the cordial yardstick, good proportion and rich details in the landscape design are concerned by people again.
作为这种反思的结果，在道路景观设计中，亲切的尺度，良好的比例以及丰富的细节重新成为人们所关注的问题。
When he stoops to get the yardstick, a print cartridge drops out of his coat.
当他弯腰去捡尺子的时候，从他的外套里又掉出来一个打印机墨盒。
However, Tao Wang, an economist at UBS, argues that this rich-world yardstick is misleading.
然而，瑞银集团的经济学家汪涛认为，富裕国家的衡量标准有所误导。
These subjects are used as a yardstick against which to measure the children's progress.
这些科目是用来衡量孩子进步的尺度。
The first step is an accurate measurement of the walls that are to be covered. Use a yardstick or steel tape measure.
第一步就是精确测量被覆盖了的墙面，使用标尺或者钢卷尺测量。
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.
你的选择，作为自由意志的结果，并不意味着在真空中（：与世隔绝，脱离现实）运用，而是依照神圣律法之准绳。
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.
所以我认为有机会来到这里，对于我们大家都是一个极其重要的标尺，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.
他说：“对于那些批评谁评估和比较的尺度，必须联合国原则和决议，远离任何权宜之计。”
By that yardstick, Gone With The Wind's sales are worth a rather daunting $26bn in today's money.
按照这一标准计算，《飘》的票房收入相当于今天的260亿美元——这个数目高得令人敬畏。
Besides, in the specific confirmation, the consumer awareness should be considered as the yardstick, but not professional standard.
在判断基准上应以消费者的认识为准绳，而排除专业人员基准。
As a result of this principle, safety is a major yardstick of management's performance.
这个原则的结果是，安全是管理人员业绩的主要的衡量标准。
Questioner: I observe myself without a yardstick, and I'm still ugly.
发问者：我不用标准来观察我自己，可我还是丑陋的。
Incidents like these may be trivial, but they show that foreigners are measured by a different yardstick to Chinese.
此类事件或许后果无足轻重，但足以证明外国人在中国人眼里的评价标准完全是自立一套的。
His yardstick for assessing the costs was whether the economy can be expanded by such measures.
他评估行动成本的标准，是这些措施能否推动经济增长。
Health care policy, international relations and military policy are all measured by this crude and self-serving yardstick.
国家医疗政策，国际关系及军事政策也全都是根据这个原则制定的——原始并且自私自利。
Breaking out the yardstick to determine mountain from molehill can sometimes help clear your head.
有时候，拿尺子来区分大山、小丘可以帮你清晰头脑。
But when results deteriorate, most managers favor disposition of the yardstick rather than disposition of the manager.
但当结果恶化时，大多数管理者青睐替换衡量尺度，而不是替换管理者。
Distinguish between analog and digital signals yardstick is to look at its value is continuous or discrete, rather than of time.
区分模拟信号和数字信号的准绳是看其取值是连续的还是离散的，而不是看时间。
In real-world market-based economies, profit as the sole yardstick leads to transfers of value from individuals to corporations.
在现实世界中基于市场的经济体，利润是唯一的标准，它导致价值从个人转移给了企业。
We shall use it as a yardstick in the following brief survey of the theories of static fatigue.
我们在下面的静态疲劳理论的主要研究中将用它作为一个衡量的尺度。
If sports is any yardstick to measure the masculine, perhaps these two are the best images of Chinese men.
如果体育是衡量阳刚的标准，也许这两个男人就是中国男人的最佳典型。
Fatally, European decisions end up being judged against the sole yardstick of sovereignty, rather than that of Britain's interests.
这么一来，欧洲决策就不可避免地把国家主权，作为其唯一的标准，倒是把英国国家利益撇到一边儿去了。
Daily value-at-risk (VAR) is a common industry yardstick used to measure potential losses.
每日风险值（VAR）是用以衡量潜在亏损的常见行业标准。
This should be the yardstick should be the only criteria.
这应该是衡量的标准，也应该是唯一的标准。
But by Mr Bush's yardstick, the effort has been a failure.
但是按照布什的标准，这项努力失败了。
