yardstick
noun /ˈjɑːdstɪk/
/ˈjɑːrdstɪk/
- (especially North American English) a ruler for measuring one yard
码尺 - a standard used for judging how good or successful something is
（好坏或成败的）衡量标准；准绳 - a yardstick by which to measure something
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。
- The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.
新型测试为检测儿童的学习提供了标准。 - We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
我们没有一个共同的标准来比较这两种情况。 - a yardstick for measuring growth
衡量增长的标准 - the yardstick of success
成功的标准 - Freud remains the yardstick from which other psychoanalysts choose to deviate.
弗洛伊德仍然是其他精神分析学家选择偏离的标准。 - Rates of progress are difficult to compare without a common yardstick.
没有共同的标准，进步的快慢不好比较。 - The rate of return on capital is used as the yardstick of profitability.
资本回报率被用作衡量盈利能力的标准。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- reliable
- useful
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- have
- apply
- use (something as)
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- against a yardstick
- by a yardstick
- yardstick for
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- a yardstick by which to measure something