| 词汇 | yardstick |
| 释义 | yardstick noun[ C ] uk /ˈjɑːd.stɪk/ us /ˈjɑːrd.stɪk/ yardsticknoun[C] (STANDARD)a fact or standard by which you can judge the success or value of something: 评判尺度；衡量标准；准绳 Productivity is not the only yardstick of success.生产率并非成功的唯一标准。 Samples and examples advertisement aliquot archetype benchmark benchmarking cross-section exemplification flavour for instanceidiom forerunner illustration incarnation prize prototype qua quintessence role model sample specimen taste yardsticknoun[C] (FOR MEASURING)a ruler(= a long flat object used for measuring the length of things) that is one yard(= approximately 91.4 centimetres) long: The dressmaker measured the cloth with a yardstick. Ivelin Denev/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages You cannot measure a microbe with a yardstick. He hit me across the head with a yardstick. He claims she broke rulers and yardsticks over his head. Measuring, weighing, & counting devices -scopic adding machine detector dial dipstick dosimeter fitness tracker gage gamma counter gauge gradation indicator manometer micrometer probe scope smart meter straight edge tracker voltmeter yardstick | American Dictionaryyardstick noun[ C ] us/ˈjɑrdˌstɪk/ a way of measuring how good, accurate, or effective something is: A high salary isn’t the only yardstick for success. The only valid yardstick for measuring traffic safety is deaths per miles driven. yardstick | Business Englishyardstick noun[ C ] uk /ˈjɑːdstɪk/us a standard used to compare similar things in order to measure their value or success: a yardstick for sthThe firm uses the index as a yardstick for measuring itself against competitors. Productivity is not the only yardstick of success. Examples of yardstickyardstick Network industries in the region are small, and so even yardstick competition within a country is not viable. In the experimental hypnotism, the yardstick for a good subject was its constancy in displaying certain symptoms that could be translated into a regular curve. This would include the development and propagation of costing techniques and viable yardsticks by which efficiency comparisons could be made within and between services. Even today, the 1946 riot is the yardstick, especially for its survivors, in assessing the intensity of communal violence of recent times. This is the yardstick for the following statistics. It was apparent that the appointing panel felt obliged to take chronological age into consideration, that is, to discriminate by that yardstick. The following is a set of goals for a "good" simulationbased exercise that can be used as a yardstick to consider new assignments. It is a yardstick by which to see whether an artist cares about or engages in the real life of people. Intelligibility should be the yardstick for a norm: mistakes are not part of the linguistic culture of a region. Stories as such serve as an important yardstick for determining the strength of the pinzhong when purchasing a cricket. This measure is intended as a yardstick for phonological development, and forms the basis of a developmental scale. It should be noted that it constitutes a yardstick to be assessed by reviewers of each program. Panurge's dream was in this sense a yardstick against which the appropriateness of specific techniques or strategies could be gauged. Using the concept of isomerism of individual molecules as the yardstick for isomerism in a hominid, therefore, is unduly restrictive. Tradition was used as the handy yardstick to check the most "undesirable" aspects of change. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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