They play American standards, pop and classical music.

他们演奏美国当代音乐, 流行音乐及古典音乐。

Today, many learners still aim for an American or British standard.

如今，许多英语学习者仍然力求达到美式英语或英式英语的标准。

The Conservatives enjoy the healthiest balance-sheet, although it is footling by American presidential standards.

尽管以美国选举标准看来，英国保守党的收支盈余不值一提，但其收支状况在英国各党派中确实最为良好。

The recovery is an odd one by American standards, centred on the rental market.

这一主要在房屋租赁市场的复苏现象以美国标准来看是比较奇怪的。

Luxury, though it had made great progress in the latter years of the war, had not become the American standard of well-being.

奢侈虽然在战争的后期取得了长足的进步，但并没有成为美国人的幸福标准。

Accustomed to starvation wages and indifferent to the conditions of living, they threatened to cut the American standard to the point of subsistence.

习惯于挨饿的工资和对生活条件漠不关心，他们威胁要将美国标准降低到仅能维持生计的地步。

It's not just too formal, it's borderline rude by American standards, even though in Germany, believe it or not, you still might get away with it.

这不仅太正式，而且按照美国的标准来看，这几乎是粗鲁的，即使在德国，无论你相信与否，你仍然可能逃脱惩罚。

Asked how bad America's economy was when he took charge at the Fed in 1979, Mr Volcker replied, " by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad" .

他于1979年执掌美联储，当被问及美国经济有多糟糕时，沃尔克曾回答称: “以拉美国家的标准衡量，情况还不算太糟糕。”

She seemed to require a prodigious number of pills—even by American standards—and I wondered if she had some kind of brittle-bone syndrome: it seemed an awful lot just for a broken wrist.

她似乎需要服用大量的药片——即使按照美国的标准——我想知道她是否患有某种脆骨综合症：仅仅因为手腕骨折就吃得太多了。