1. Both the cost and the standard of living were lower before the war.
    战前生活费用和生活水准都比较低.

2. They set a standard for everybody to emulate.
    他们为每人设立了赶超标准。

3. There is a standard form of oath used in lawcourts.
    法庭中使用的誓词有固定的格式.

4. They understood instinctively that integrity involves having a personal standard of morality and boundaries that does not sell out to convenience and that is not relative to the situation at hand.
    他们生来就认为，所谓正直，就是有自己的道德界定标准，既不贪财图利，也不因所处的环境而妥协。

5. The sole standard for being first at something was simply not having heard that somebody else had done it.
    衡量是否"第一"的惟一标准就是没听说别人做过。

6. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification.
    他们的语言起源不明，也无法根据任何通常分类来归类。

7. Not only was the meal well below the usual standard, but Bessie seemed unable to walk steadily.
    结果，不仅饭菜远不如平时做得好，而且贝西走起路来似乎东倒西歪。

8. Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don't know precisely what a "good heart" is.
    现在我长大成人了，我开始相信这正是判断一个人的恰如其分的标准，虽然我还没有确切理解什么是"好心"。

9. As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool.
    由于将有大批的人到我们国家来，所以政府准备建造一些新的饭店、一个大型体育场和一个新的奥运会标准游泳池。

10. A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already know.
    社会学研究的标准评论往往会不遗余力地去证明那些大多数有常识的人已经知道了的东西。