- (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。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- 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.资本回报率用作获利能力的标准。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + yardstick- have
- apply
- use (something as)
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preposition- against a yardstick
- by a yardstick
- yardstick for
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