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。)
The correct yardstick is just for this moment.(正确的准绳只是这一刻。)
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。)
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。)
Profit is not the only yardstick of success.(利润并不是衡量成功的唯一尺度。)
Real results should be the yardstick for measuring success.(真实的成果是衡量成功的准绳。)
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。)
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。)
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。)
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。)
