This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about " gauge" and " yardstick."

本周《名师答疑》，我们将回答关于“测量”和“码尺”的问题。

Or how you went into my sewing kit for my measuring tape.

或者你翻我的针线盒找码尺。

Dexterously, he whipped out his yard measure, and proceeded, quite solemnly, to measure an overcoat hanging in the hall from the collar to the hem.

。 他灵巧抽出他的码尺， 非常严肃开始测量大厅里挂着的一件大衣， 从衣领。

Calling something a " yardstick" is to say it is a standard by which to judge something: The teachers used the test results as a yardstick for how much their students learned this year.

把某事物称为“码尺”，意思是说，它是评判事情的标准：老师用考试成绩来衡量学生今年学了多少东西。

There are no yard measures, neatly divided into the fractions of an inch, that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter, or the fidelity of a sister, or the capacity of a housekeeper.

没有精确一英寸的几分之几的码尺，可以衡量一个好母亲的品质或女儿的忠诚， 或姐妹的忠诚， 或管家的能力。