N-COUNT 衡量标准;评判尺度;准绳 If you use someone or something as a yardstick, you use them as a standard for comparison when you are judging other people or things. 衡量标准;评判尺度;准绳
There has been no yardstick by which potential students can assess individual schools before signing up for a course.
有意就读的学生在报名参加一门课程前没有任何参照标准去衡量各个学校的水平。
She had never had a real boyfriend before and so had no yardstick by which to compare Charles's behaviour.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + YARDSTICK | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤good, reliable, useful不錯的/可靠的/有用的標準▸➤common共同的標準➤traditional傳統的標準➤moral道德標準VERB + YARDSTICK➤have有標準◇We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.我們沒有一個共同的標準來比較這兩種情況。➤apply, use (sth as)應用標準;用(⋯作為)標準▸➤give sb, provide (sb with), serve as給某人提供標準;(向某人)提供標準;作為標準▸➤measure sth against, measure sth by用標準衡量⋯PREPOSITION➤against a yardstick以標準◇The new test provides a yardstick against which to measure children's learning.新型測試為檢測兒童的學習提供了標準。➤by a yardstick用標準◇By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.用任何標準衡量,那都是一大筆錢。◇The goal is to create a yardstick by which to measure the progress.旨在創建一個衡量進步的標準。➤yardstick for衡量⋯的標準◇a yardstick for measuring growth衡量增長的標準➤yardstick of⋯的標準◇the yardstick of success成功的標準