Morality, as a yardstick, is usually used to evaluate others.

道德一直被人们视为评价他人的一个尺度。

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Once the business is up and running, the plan can then be used as a yardstick by which to gauge success.

一旦企业上了轨道，这个计划书就可做为判定成功与否的标尺。

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To sales as a yardstick, to make our design, to enhance the corporate image of the network is our target.

以销售业绩作为衡量的标准，努力使我们的设计、全面提升企业的网络形像是我们的服务目标。

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Bowles and Simpson were the co-chairmen of Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission in 2010, and their recommendations came to serve as a yardstick for other debt-reduction proposals.

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Still, Wal-Mart's size, together with the longtime acceptance of same-store sales as a yardstick of a retailer's health, makes for potential fireworks every time the company's executives put out the latest monthly number.

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When calculating such things, people often adopt a familiar unit as a mental yardstick and then generate predictions based on that unit.

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