0 a level of quality that can be used as a standard when comparing other things -- 基準（點）
Her outstanding performances set a new benchmark for singers throughout the world. 她的精彩表演為全世界歌手樹立了新典範。
1 to measure the quality of something by comparing it with something else of an accepted standard -- 以…為標準來衡量
Using these benchmarks, we measured the impact of different heuristics used in the select action function.
To measure the parameters describing the states reached by the compressed material and thus to provide benchmarks for simulation codes, different optical diagnostics were employed.
To provide two important benchmarks, for each window we estimate two linear models.
The first example concerns a recent controversy surrounding the use of national literacy benchmarks for primary school lear ners.
Many things were important as benchmarks of how this progress could be measured - education, increasing professionalisation, artistic production - but the underlying criterion was material.
To answer this question, we construct several real benchmarks - real in that they produce useful results.
We use the benchmarker of each adt to time each implementation and its variants over a sample of 100 benchmarks.
I shall mention only the more important of these benchmarks.
