yardstick

• n. 碼尺

yard,碼，stick,棍，引申義準繩，標準。比較canon,gauge.

yardstick (n.)

also yard-stick, 1797, from yard (n.2) + stick (n.).

1. a yardstick by which to measure sth

衡量某事物的標準

來自《權威詞典》

2. By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.

用任何標準衡量, 那都是巨大的金額.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.

新的測試提供了一個標準去檢測兒童的學習.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

這是衡量一個人是否真正進步的標準.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Profit is not the only yardstick of success.

利潤並不是衡量成功的唯一尺度.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》