I have a yardstick, and I'm not afraid to use it.

我的戒尺正愁没地儿使呢。

Still, by that yardstick Indian firms have decades before institutional capitalism takes over.

就算这样，按照上述标准，印度业制度资本主义盛行前尚有几十年的时间。

All the decisions concerning Harvard's fate must be measured and determined by this yardstick.

所有关于学校命运的重大决定都要有这一尺度来做最终的衡量和判断。

As expected, this reference image probably takes forever to compute, but is important to have as a yardstick.

可以预料，这张参照图片大概要花一辈子的时间去计算，但是它是一个非常重要的标尺。

The MDGs may have helped marginally, by creating a yardstick for measuring progress, and by focusing minds on the evil of poverty.

虽然千年发展目标发挥了微小的作用，比如确立了衡量进步的标准，以及引起人们对贫困这一不幸的关注。

The motto is not just empty talk. Instead, it is a real yardstick.

这一校训绝对不是一句空话，而是一个实实的尺度。

When new solutions pop up in the future, this dataset can be used as a yardstick to compare results with.

将来有新的算法时，这个数据集可以作为比较的标。

But one can use a rough-and-ready yardstick: in how many places did the inventors seek a patent for the same technology?

不过，我们可以使用一个简易的标准：对于同一项技术，发明者多少个地方同时寻求获得专利？

It finds supernova explosions in remote galaxies and uses the light from the explosion as a yardstick to measure the distance from earth to the galaxy.

哈勃发现遥远星系发生的超新星爆炸，再用爆炸发出的光做为量尺测量从地球到发生超新星爆炸的星系的距离。

So I think Alan...will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.

我想亚伦… … 将应成为未来男朋友的标准。

Equity analysts who engage in " sum-of-the parts" (SOTP) analysis also try to estimate the value of bits of a business using similar firms as a yardstick.

从事“部分总和”分析的股票分析师也试图以类似的公司作为衡量标准来评估业的部分价值。

Infosys, a technology firm, leapt in a generation from a start-up to a global blue chip, owned by institutional shareholders and measured against that most Western of yardsticks, the stock price.

科技公司Infosys过一代人的努力从新业一跃成为由法人股东持有、大多数西方标准--股票价格--衡量后的国际蓝筹股。

We've gotten our yardstick out, and at least where I am, I've measured, from place to place, where it looked like the snow was untouched, about six inches of snow so far.

我们已有了自己的标准, 至少我就这里, 我已从一个地方到另一个地方进行了测量, 看起来雪像未动过, 到目前为止积雪大约六英寸厚。

We know this and yet we continue to use passion as the yardstick to judge everything by, instead of seeing passion for what it really is: the fire that ignites when you start rubbing sticks together.

我们对此心知肚明，但是我们还是继续将热情作为准绳去判断一切，而不是看清热情是什么和为了什么：热情是钻木取火而燃起的火苗。