复数： yardsticks

Not all of china should be measured by this yardstick .

不应该按照这一标准来衡量整个中国。

Businesses have profit ; the social sector lacks a similarly simple yardstick .

企业以创造利润为主，社会部门却缺少了一个简单类似的衡量标准。

But pinning such grand hopes on a single yardstick invariably leads to discontent .

然而，将如此崇高的理想寄望于一个单一的衡量标准上势必引起不满。

As a yardstick , 8 sieverts is considered fatal , even with treatment .

作为衡量标准，一般认为8西韦特单位就会致命，及时接受治疗也不能幸免。

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

就算这样，按照上述标准，印度企业在制度资本主义盛行前尚有几十年的时间。