【standard音标】 英[ˈstændəd] 美[ˈstændərd]
【单词释义】 standard是什么意思：
n.标准，规格；旗，军旗；度量衡标准；直立支柱
adj.标准的，合格的；普遍的，一般的；公认为优秀的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] standards
【关联词/派生词】
stand n.台，看台；立场 v.站立，起立；忍受；竖放
standpoint n.立场，观点
standardize vt.使标准化；使符合标准（或规格）
standing n.起立，站立；身份，地位，声望 adj.永久的，长期的；站立的 v.站立，起立；忍受；竖放(stand 的现在分词)
【单词例句】
◇ There are currently three major television broadcast standards,and they are all incompatible with each other.But this is nothing compared to the many technologies supporting the Internet,each with a different bandwidth and physical media.
当前有三大主要电视广播标准是互不相容的。他们都无法跟许多支持网络的技术相比，他们各自有不同的宽带和物理介质。
◇ Past perception wasn't all bad. The union between marriage and the now-standard ring placement can be traced back to second-century Egyptians who falsely believed that "a certain most delicate nerve" began in the fourth left finger and stretched directly to the heart, according to the Greek scholar Appian.
古人也不全都认为左手不好。婚姻和左手无名指的关联可以追溯到2世纪的埃及。希腊学者阿皮安解释说，当时埃及人误以为“某个最脆弱的神经”从左手第四指开始，一直延伸到心脏。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ Even if you and your partner spend the night at each other's places all the time, your family's standards can be a different story, making sleeping arrangements a potentially fraught topic. Winter recommends treading carefully.
即使你和伴侣经常在对方的住所里过夜，但是在父母家里过夜则是另一回事，可能会带来一些烦恼。温特建议对这件事要小心斟酌。
---- How to introduce your partner to your family
◇ By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word autompne and the Latin autumnus, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.
到了17世纪末，源自法语autompne和拉丁语autumnus的autumn取代fall成为指代第三个季节的标准英国用词。