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yardstick [ˈjɑːdstık] N

1. yardstick:

yardstick

2. yardstick:

yardstick

标准 biāozhǔn

Is profit the only yardstick of success?

利润是衡量成功的惟一标准吗？

Usage examples with yardstick

Is profit the only yardstick of success?

利润是衡量成功的惟一标准吗？

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Yardsticks may be used as pointing devices for posters and projections. en.wikipedia.org

This means, they are too short a yardstick to measure the size of ruptures that significantly exceed 100 km in length. en.wikipedia.org

Usable art, social design, whatever addressed itself to people and expanded the social dimension was to be our yardstick. en.wikipedia.org

Students should be tested against a fixed yardstick, rather than against each other or sorted into a mathematical bell curve. en.wikipedia.org

It is a yardstick that stood him in good stead. en.wikipedia.org

These collective yardsticks are determined by the norms previously discussed. en.wikipedia.org

Perceived as a tough, mobile, and independent outdoorsman, he has become a symbolic yardstick against which modern men might measure their own manhood. en.wikipedia.org

We use the magazine as a yardstick for our books... en.wikipedia.org

For example, not everything is measurable and yet so much of what we do has that yardstick applied to it. en.wikipedia.org

The reasonable person is used as a yardstick to measure the insureds conduct in relation to an alleged breach of warranty. en.wikipedia.org

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