standard /ˈstændəd/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A standard is a level of quality or achievement, especially a level that is thought to be acceptable. (尤指可被接受的) 水平

  例：

  The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.

  职业板球的水平从来没这么低过。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A standard is something that you use in order to judge the quality of something else. 标准

  例：

  ...systems that were by later standards absurdly primitive.

  …按照后来的标准衡量显得极其原始的系统。

• 3. 

  N-PLURAL Standards are moral principles which affect people's attitudes and behaviour. 道德水准

  例：

  My father has always had high moral standards.

  我父亲一直有着很高的道德水准。

• 4. 

  ADJ You use standard to describe things which are usual and normal. 常规的

  例：

  It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.

  让未经训练的职员们在诸如谋杀等重案中提出建议是常规的做法。

• 5. 

  ADJ A standard work or text on a particular subject is one that is widely read and often recommended. 权威的; 广泛认可的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  At twenty he translated Euler's standard work on algebra into English.

  20岁时，他把尤勒的权威代数著作译成了英语。