yardstick

1 Somehow, Keats’s “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” is a crueler yardstick of our place in the world than the fizzy fakery of New Year’s Day.

2 There has been no yardstick by which potential students can assess individual schools before signing up for a course.

有意就读的学生在报名参加一门课程前没有任何参照标准去衡量各个学校的水平。

3 He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work.

4 The Bank said the change reflects new data on differences in the cost of living across countries, while preserving the real purchasing power of the previous yardstick.

5 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。

6 By that yardstick house prices seem low in only a handful of countries in our survey, as the final column in the table shows.

按照这种标准，我们的调查中只有个别国家房价低廉，如表格最后一栏所示。

7 His mother, a professor of Spanish and French, and his father, a restaurateur, wanted him to become a doctor, a lawyer, a businessman: the conventional yardsticks for success in a Greek-American family like theirs.

8 The Brooklyn-raised executive approached the project with traditional yardsticks in mind.

9 Performance measure is an important yardstick to valuation the achievements and activities of a government.

政府绩效是衡量一个国家政府活动的成绩和效果的重要尺度.

10 The correct yardstick is just for this moment.

正确的准绳只是这一刻。

11 The above ought to be the yardstick when reviewing our work.

检查工作,应当用这个标准.

12 By those yardsticks “Own the Night” takes a clear stance.

13 a yardstick by which to measure sth

衡量某事物的标准

14 This is a yardstick for measuring whether a person is really progressive.

这是衡量一个人是否真正进步的标准.

15 But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel.

16 The next day, speaker after speaker urged a different yardstick for raising and killing animals: Which methods caused the least suffering?

17 She had never had a real boyfriend before and so had no yardstick by which to compare Charles's behaviour...

她以前从没有过真正的男朋友，所以没有可参照的标准来对比查尔斯的行为。

18 In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side.

19 Most currencies are trading a long way from that yardstick.

多数国家以汇率为基准进行商贸交易.

20 Before we knew where we were, we’d been seated down at this end of a yardstick.

1 衡量标准

metewand metric

2 码尺

yard

3 尺度

measure criterion gauge standard dimensional scale module