yardstick
US /ˈjɑ:rdstɪk/
・UK /ˈjɑ:dstɪk/
A1 初級
n.名詞碼尺
On what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
n.名詞衡量標準
The new regulations will be the yardstick by which the company's performance is measured.
n.名詞碼尺
He used a yardstick to measure the length of the fabric.
影片字幕
人生不是為了快樂！ (Life is Not About Being Happy)
- But this doesn't perhaps have to be the measure of everything. We don't need to be constantly offended by our agitations. Our day-to-day troubles don't have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives. Given where we've come from and how we're constituted, we were never going to be happy in any obvious way. But perhaps a good life can in the end be compatible with being fairly perturbed most days of the week. Perhaps it doesn't matter that a relationship has failed once more. Perhaps it isn't appalling that our business doesn't deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job. We've stretched ourselves, we've learned to raise our voices, we've developed courage. We don't have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract, but as the logical and immovable consequences of our stubborn and subtle natures interacting with the complexities of existence. We're sometimes frightened into reorienting our lives by being asked to contemplate how we might feel about them from the vantage point of our deathbeds. But if on this bed we were to look back at a rollercoaster of emotions and events, we might have got married for the fifth time recently, we might smile to ourselves and, to the beeping of the heart monitor beside us, say with wisdom and compassion, it wasn't a calm life for sure, it wasn't for the most part even a happy one, but heaven knows it was a truly and properly interesting one. And with this as our measure, we might meet our end with all the satisfaction and self-acceptance we could hope for.
但這也許並不是衡量一切的標準。我們不需要總是被自己的躁動所冒犯。我們的日常煩惱不必成為我們判斷人生價值的標尺。鑑於我們的出身和構成，我們永遠不會有明顯的幸福。但是，也許美好的生活最終可以與一週中大多數日子的焦慮相容。也許一段感情再次失敗並不重要。也許，我們的事業沒有給我們帶來在以前的工作中可能得到的回報並不令人震驚。我們拓展了自己，我們學會了發出自己的聲音，我們鼓起了勇氣。我們不必把悲傷和煩惱的印記看作是對純潔契約的某種違反，而應看作是我們頑固而微妙的天性與複雜的生存環境相互作用所產生的合乎邏輯的、不可動
- Our day-to-day troubles do not have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives.
人民幣真的貶值了嗎？ (Is China's Yuan a Weak Currency?)
- This shows that terminology like weak can depend on what yardstick you use.
這說明，"弱 "這樣的術語可以取決於你使用的尺度。
- This shows that terminology like "weak" can depend on what yardstick you use.
而人民幣兌美元匯率確實處於近期記憶中的谷底。
炸彈氣旋「像颶風一樣」重創4000萬美國人！ (Bomb cyclone slams 40M Americans ‘like a hurricane’)
- So my first winter storm live shot for gma, they sent me out with a yardstick because that's what you have to do.
所以我第一次在 GMA 進行冬季風暴的現場連線，他們給我一支尺，因為這就是必須做的。
- So my first winter storm live shot for GMA, they sent me out with a yardstick because that's what you have to do.
沒錯，當時我就在電視直播現場，拿著那支斷掉的尺。
歐洲領袖協調回應川普關稅升級！DW新聞 (European leaders coordinate response to Trump's new tariff escalation | DW News)
- If we're using the yardstick laid out by the administration for what tariffs were supposed to accomplish, the answer to that question is clearly no.
如果我們用政府提出的關稅應該達成的標準來看，這個問題的答案顯然是否定的。
- If we're using the yardstick laid out by the administration for what tariffs were supposed to accomplish, the answer to that question is clearly no.
在許多情況下，我們確實沒看到。
暴風雪狂襲東北！強降雪伴隨狂風！ (Blizzards slams the Northeast with intense snowfall and high winds)
- Our producer Jacob earlier put a yardstick out here and he was measuring 14 inches in some of these snow drifts.
我們的製作人 Jacob 稍早在這裡放了一根尺，他在測量一些雪堆，有些地方有 14 英吋深。
- Our producer, Jacob, earlier, uh, put a yardstick out here,
Monmouth 郡已經有 25,000 用戶停電。
Codex 入門教學！ (Getting started with Codex)
- it can use that as kind of a yardstick to measure its progress as it works along.
牠就可以用這些需求作為衡量進度的標準，一路跟著做。
- Another way to do this is just tell Codex, "Here are the requirements that you need to implement in order for this feature to be considered complete." And it can use that as kind of a yardstick to measure its progress as it works along.
用它來除錯。
川普堅持美國正與伊朗協商終止戰爭 | BBC News (Donald Trump insists US is negotiating with Iran over an end to war | BBC News)
- But this is it's, it's very hard, as you suggest, to, to, to get any kind of yardstick on, on where we are with the with the course of this conflict.
而且我們聽到了好幾次、呃，巨大的爆炸聲，因為那些飛彈，在耶路撒冷的情況下，應該是被城市的有效防空系統攔截了。
- But this is it's, it's very hard, as you suggest, to, to, to get any kind of yardstick on, on where we are with the with the course of this conflict.
但就像你說的，我們很難衡量這場衝突的進展到哪裡了。
美國 vs 英國 必勝客 | 跨國美食對決 | 歡樂送大戰！ (US vs UK Pizza Hut | Foreign Exchange | Food Wars)
- That's kind of the only yardstick that British people can understand ranch by.
歸根結底，我認為在菜單中加入肉桂卷，就等於讓你自己的肉桂選擇失去了作用。
- That's kind of the only yardstick that British people can understand ranch by.
這是英國人理解牧場的唯一標準。
美伊衝突：荷姆茲海峽還開嗎？ | BBC News (US-Iran conflict: Is the Strait of Hormuz open? | BBC News)
- Everyone says, "Oh, the S&P have been in power since before the iPhone was invented." We need to come up with another yardstick, something that was invented in the meantime because I'm getting a bit sick of hearing that iPhone sound bite.
大家都說：「喔，SNP 在 iPhone 發明前就掌權了。」我們需要想個新的衡量標準，一個這段期間內發明出來的東西，因為我聽 iPhone 這句老梗都聽膩了。
- Everyone says, "Oh, the S&P have been in power since before the iPhone was invented." We need to come up with another yardstick, something that was invented in the meantime because I'm getting a bit sick of hearing that iPhone sound bite.
是這樣嗎？