单词yardstick
n.: 准绳；码尺；（好坏或成败的）衡量标准
网络: 尺度；标尺；尺码
码尺:
a ruler for measuring one yard
（好坏或成败的）衡量标准；准绳:
a standard used for judging how good or successful sth is
比较标准
计算标准
检验标准
衡量标准
码尺;标准,衡量的尺度
复数：yardsticks
n.measureindexgaugebenchmarkstandard
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。