yardstick
英音 [ˈjɑ:dstɪk] 美音 [ˈjɑrdˌstɪk]
基本翻译或解释:
n. 码尺;尺度
词源相关:
复数: yardsticks
详细解释:
yardstick 码尺,准绳 yard,码,stick,棍,引申义准绳,标准。比较canon,gauge.
用法与例句:
- 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。