Milestone

(noun.) stone post at side of a road to show distances.

(noun.) a significant event in your life (or in a project).

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• I might as well (as the Irish say) have whistled jigs to a milestone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He was pitched out of his gig once, and knocked, head first, against a milestone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We left him at a milestone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They are extremely important as symptoms, as milestones, and as instruments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All them old cats _will _run their heads agin milestones,' observed Mr. Weller, in a parenthesis. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• As we make the backward run of one hundred years we have passed by many milestones of progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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