Milestone
['maɪlstəʊn] or ['maɪlston]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) stone post at side of a road to show distances.
(noun.) a significant event in your life (or in a project).
杰拉尔丁校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
埃罗尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I might as well (as the Irish say) have whistled jigs to a milestone. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone, and began to think, for the first time, where he had better go and try to live. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He was pitched out of his gig once, and knocked, head first, against a milestone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We left him at a milestone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They are extremely important as symptoms, as milestones, and as instruments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All them old cats _will _run their heads agin milestones,' observed Mr. Weller, in a parenthesis. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Well, Major Dobbin passed through all this from Southampton to London, and without noting much beyond the milestones along the road. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As we make the backward run of one hundred years we have passed by many milestones of progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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