yardstick的意思|yardstick的解释-里氏词典

yardstick ['jɑ:dstik]

n. 码尺, 计算标准, 准绳

[法] 尺度, 衡量标准, 任何评判或比较的标准

yardstick

[ noun ]

a measure or standard used for comparison

<noun.communication>

on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?

a ruler or tape that is three feet long

<noun.artifact>

Yardstick \Yard"stick`\, n.
A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure
of cloth, etc.

They foster hostile takeovers and an over-reliance on profitability as a yardstick of success. The chapter on Britain offers a rich and complex explanation of why its industry is in decline.
In the case of banks, which do not have sales or turnover in a conventional sense, the two thirds yardstick relates to assets. The bulk of a typical bank's assets are loans.
There is no one single yardstick by which to measure a school; even if you know the yardstick you want, a simple ranking rarely gives more than a one-dimensional picture.
There is no one single yardstick by which to measure a school; even if you know the yardstick you want, a simple ranking rarely gives more than a one-dimensional picture.
The most accepted yardstick is probably the Frank Russell Co. Property Index, which tracks appraised values of a fixed group of properties.
But by its own yardstick the British government will be doing a great deal more than its fair share. It has been an inelegant U-turn.
To judge a prosecuting authority by the number of people sent down is a crude yardstick.
The yardstick by which management performance is measured is not published profits: the supervisory board will have access to internal measures of profit performance.
That period has remained his basic economic yardstick.
Only a few weeks ago, in a Senate hearing, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, alluded to the "per-capita rate" of a country's foreign purchases as a yardstick in measuring the possibility of a booming world trade.
By that yardstick, this bear market could drag on for two years.
By one yardstick, 11 percent of the oldest group had moderate to severe depression at seven months, in contrast to 29 percent of the youngest group and 23 percent of the middle group.
The London Metal Exchange "will continue to be the yardstick (for aluminum prices) and set the global trend," says Samincorp's Mr. Savert.
It's not just an ideal, it's also a yardstick.
A pop is an industry yardstick obtained by multiplying a market area population by the percentage ownership of a cellular company serving the market.
Whether Mr Large can square the various sides of the job, the domestic and the international, retail and wholesale, will be the yardstick by which he will be judged.
By any yardstick other than musical spectaculars, Broadway has been in a long, steady decline as its vital signs grow weaker and weaker.
But he cannot base his conclusions on his own preferred yardstick. There was a quick recovery in the growth of M0 from late 1982 onwards. Minford approves, at least in retrospect.

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