and if it is, can a company that for decades has been the yardstick for manufacturing excellence turn itself around in time?
如果是这样,那么这个几十年来一直是制造业优秀榜样的公司能否及时摆脱困境?
our paycheck, our title, or some other artificial yardstick gives us temporary entrée into the world of the accepted.
我们的薪水,头衔或者其他人为的标準让我们临时步入所谓的上流社会。
he also provides us with a yardstick for measuring the chances that the arab awakening this spring will meet his three tests of political order (not high, at least not yet).
他也给我们提供了衡量今春觉醒中的阿拉伯世界遭遇政治秩序三重考验的可能性的标尺(可能性不高,至少目前尚未)。
this yardstick tends to be shrugged off by empire builders, but in the long run it is the only one that counts.
这种尺度倾向于被帝国建造者摆脱,但是长期以来它是唯一的测量方式。
and so having the opportunity to be here as a yardstick has i think been extraordinarily important and of great benefit to all of us.
所以我认为有机会来到这里,对于我们大家都是一个极其重要的标尺,都有巨大的裨益。
it was a little later that he followed up the attack with two short essays, 「the wonder-dreamers」 and 「the yardstick of the ego.」
以后不久他又写了两篇短文:《奇迹梦想者》和《自我的尺度》,继续进行攻击。
this is an important yardstick against which all reform proposals should be measured.
这是衡量一切改革措施的重要準绳。
similarly, many scientific bodies have endorsed the use of the who growth standards, while united nations agencies use them as the common yardstick to assess and monitor child growth.
同样,在联合国机构将此标準作为评估和监测儿童生长的标尺的同时,许多科学机构也支持使用世卫组织生长标準。
his aim is to make the german station a yardstick against which other news reports can be checked: not so much a loud voice as a dependable one.
他的目标是使这家德国电台成为一个针对其他可被检视的新闻报道的标尺:影响不是最大但却是可信赖的一家电台。
these so-called baryon acoustic oscillations offer another yardstick for measuring the expansion rate of the universe over time and putting limits on the value of dark energy.
这些被称为重子声学振蕩的东西为测量随时间变化的宇宙的膨胀速度和对暗能量的值施加限制提供另一尺码。
they then made this experience a yardstick for evaluating future losses.
他们以这方面的作为衡量未来损失的尺度。
the correct yardstick is just for this moment.
正确的準绳只是这一刻。
there is no unique yardstick (for us to judge whether she’s lady or not) existing in the world, thus it is unnecessary for us to learn from others.
因为这个世界没有统一的尺度,所以谁都没必要去刻意学习别人。
as a historian noted, it was as if 「the yardstick of value was 36 inches long in 1879 ... 46 inches in 1896, 13 and a half inches in 1920.」
正如一位历史学家指出,“1879年以36英寸黄金作为价值準绳...
place a yardstick on the floor. secure it by placing a piece of tape across the yardstick at the 15-inch (38-centimeter) mark.
放一个码尺在地板上,用胶带固定码尺在15英寸(38厘米)标志处。
you can use yardstick competition. so they have to compete against each other for the resources.
为此,可以设立竞争的标準,这样不同的民间组织可以互相竞争来获取资源。