The book gives a yardstick for measuring assets.

该书为评估资产提供了一种标准。

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。

Profit is not the only yardstick of success.

利润并不是衡量成功的唯一尺度。

Be a yardstick of quality.

要成为质量的标尺。

A yardstick slides out of his pants.

从他的裤子里掉出来了一把尺子。

The correct yardstick is just for this moment.

正确的准绳只是这一刻。

I make and I sell soap? The yardstick of civilization.

我制造并销售香皂，文明的尺度。

Real results should be the yardstick for measuring success.

真实的成果是衡量成功的准绳。

But by Mr Bush's yardstick, the effort has been a failure.

但是按照布什的标准，这项努力失败了。

But that, he emphasises, is not the yardstick he and his wife Olga use.

但他同时强调，这并不是他以及妻子奥尔加所持的评判标准。

When he stoops to get the yardstick, a print cartridge drops out of his coat.

当他弯腰去捡尺子的时候，从他的外套里又掉出来一个打印机墨盒。

Businesses have profit; the social sector lacks a similarly simple yardstick.

企业以创造利润为主，社会部门却缺少了一个简单类似的衡量标准。

And in his anger he took the yardstick from the wall, and drove him out with blows.

一气之下，他从墙上取下板尺，将儿子一阵痛打赶出了家门。

They are the yardstick or role model which other systems, companies, etc. try to match.

它们是其他系统、公司等力求达到的标准或效仿的。

But this favourite inflation yardstick of the Federal Reserve was still outside its comfort zone.

但是这个表现最好的通胀指标仍不能让美联储满意。

The exchange rate that leaves a Big Mac costing the same in dollars everywhere is our fair-value yardstick.

使世界各地巨无霸的售价都统一折算成相同美元数的汇率是我们的公平价值尺度。

This yardstick tends to be shrugged off by empire builders, but in the long run it is the only one that counts.

这种尺度倾向于被帝国建造者摆脱，但是长期以来它是唯一的测量方式。

Health care policy, international relations and military policy are all measured by this crude and self-serving yardstick.

国家医疗政策，国际关系及军事政策也全都是根据这个原则制定的——原始并且自私自利。

And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.

我们尽最大努力去应用的标准，是汇总快乐，再减去痛苦。

By that yardstick house prices seem low in only a handful of countries in our survey, as the final column in the table shows.

按照这种标准，我们的调查中只有个别国家房价低廉，如表格最后一栏所示。

Recently, he said that sheer size, in terms of market capitalisation, is not the right yardstick to measure the bank's might.

最近，他谈到以市场资本化的方式做大规模，不是衡量银行的最佳方案。

During the Internet's short life, most people have used a yardstick from traditional media to measure success: audience size.

在因特网问世的短十几年中，大多数人还习惯用衡量传统传媒的方法衡量其是否成功，那就是看它的观众量。

Place a yardstick on the floor. Secure it by placing a piece of tape across the yardstick at the 15-inch (38-centimeter) mark.

放一个码尺在地板上，用胶带固定码尺在15英寸(38厘米)标志处。

Happy people take pleasure in the successes of other people rather than using those successes as a yardstick to measure their own lives.

幸福的人常常为别人的成功感到高兴，而不是拿别人的成功来衡量自己的生活。

Another yardstick, GDP per head, takes account of the fact that America's population is rising rapidly, whereas Japan's has started to shrink.

另外一些指标，人均gdp，考虑到美国人口在迅速增长，但日本则开始减少。

In addition to films, awards and advertisements, magazine covers are also an important yardstick to measure an actress 'ranking and popularity.

除了电影、奖项和广告，杂志封面也是衡量影视女星地位和人气的重要标尺。

His aim is to make the German station a yardstick against which other news reports can be checked: not so much a loud voice as a dependable one.

他的目标是使这家德国电台成为一个针对其他可被检视的新闻报道的标尺：影响不是最大但却是可信赖的一家电台。