In addition to films, awards and advertisements, magazine covers are also an important yardstick to measure an actress 'ranking and popularity.(除了電影、獎項和廣告，雜志封面也是衡量影視女星地位和人氣的重要標尺。)

The correct yardstick is just for this moment.(正確的準繩只是這一刻。)

Place a yardstick on the floor. Secure it by placing a piece of tape across the yardstick at the 15-inch (38-centimeter) mark.(放一個碼尺在地板上，用膠帶固定碼尺在15英寸(38厘米)標志處。)

This yardstick tends to be shrugged off by empire builders, but in the long run it is the only one that counts.(這種尺度傾向于被帝國建造者擺脫，但是長期以來它是唯一的測量方式。)

Profit is not the only yardstick of success.(利潤并不是衡量成功的唯一尺度。)

Real results should be the yardstick for measuring success.(真實的成果是衡量成功的準繩。)

They are the yardstick or role model which other systems, companies, etc. try to match.(它們是其他系統、公司等力求達到的標準或效仿的。)

By that yardstick house prices seem low in only a handful of countries in our survey, as the final column in the table shows.(按照這種標準，我們的調查中只有個別國家房價低廉，如表格最后一欄所示。)

Happy people take pleasure in the successes of other people rather than using those successes as a yardstick to measure their own lives.(幸福的人常常為別人的成功感到高興，而不是拿別人的成功來衡量自己的生活。)

But this favourite inflation yardstick of the Federal Reserve was still outside its comfort zone.(但是這個表現最好的通脹指標仍不能讓美聯儲滿意。)