yardstick
英[ˈjɑ:dstɪk]
美[ˈjɑ:dstɪk]
意思解释
n. 码尺；尺度
变化形式
复数： yardsticks
中文词源
yardstick 码尺，准绳
yard,码，stick,棍，引申义准绳，标准。比较canon,gauge.
用法例句
- Not all of china should be measured by this yardstick .
- 不应该按照这一标准来衡量整个中国。
- Businesses have profit ; the social sector lacks a similarly simple yardstick .
- 企业以创造利润为主，社会部门却缺少了一个简单类似的衡量标准。
- But pinning such grand hopes on a single yardstick invariably leads to discontent .
- 然而，将如此崇高的理想寄望于一个单一的衡量标准上势必引起不满。
- As a yardstick , 8 sieverts is considered fatal , even with treatment .
- 作为衡量标准，一般认为8西韦特单位就会致命，及时接受治疗也不能幸免。
- Still , by that yardstick indian firms have decades before institutional capitalism takes over .
- 就算这样，按照上述标准，印度企业在制度资本主义盛行前尚有几十年的时间。