standard

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

The standard of professional cricket has never been lower. 職業板球的水平從來沒這麽低過。

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

...systems that were by later standards absurdly primitive. …按照後來的標準衡量顯得極其原始的系統。

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

My father has always had high moral standards. 我父親一直有著很高的道德水準。

4. ADJ You use standard to describe things which are usual and normal. 常槼的

It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder. 讓未經訓練的職員們在諸如謀殺等重案中提出建議是常槼的做法。

5. ADJ A standard work or text on a particular subject is one that is widely read and often recommended. 權威的; 廣泛認可的[ADJ n]

At twenty he translated Euler's standard work on algebra into English. 20嵗時，他把尤勒的權威代數著作譯成了英語。