Word · Frequency #11721
milestone
里程碑；里程石；里程标
a stone post at the side of a road that shows distances
这里指路旁标示距离的石碑，不是比喻义‘重大事件’。
- 1.
A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
沿道路等距设置的里程碑,通常为石制,位于路边或中央分隔带。
- 2.
stone post at side of a road to show distances
路旁标明距离的石柱
- 3.
An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
个人生活或事业、国家历史、项目等中的重大事件。
- 4.
a significant event in your life (or in a project)
你生活中(或项目中)的重大事件
沿道路等距设置的里程碑,通常为石制,位于路边或中央分隔带。；路旁标明距离的石柱；个人生活或事业、国家历史、项目等中的重大事件。；你生活中(或项目中)的重大事件；里程碑
In use
We stopped at a milestone to check how far we had travelled.
According to the milestone, the next village was ten kilometres away.
The old milestones along this road were carved in the 1800s.
a milestone on the road to [place]
road to 后接具体地点；milestone 是可数名词。
The old milestone on the road to York is a popular tourist attraction.
通往约克路上的那块旧里程碑是一个颇受游客欢迎的景点。
a milestone marking [distance]
marking... 是现在分词短语作后置定语，修饰 milestone。
We found a milestone marking the distance to the next village.
我们发现了一块里程碑，上面标着到下一个村庄的距离。
pass a milestone
pass 在此意为“经过”，也可用 come across，但后者更侧重“偶然遇到”。
Connections
Collocations
- reach a milestone
- 达到一个里程碑
- The company reached a milestone in its development.公司在发展过程中达到了一个里程碑。
- an important milestone
- 一个重要的里程碑
- Winning the prize was an important milestone in her career.获得该奖项是她职业生涯中的一个重要里程碑。
- mark a milestone
- 标志着里程碑
- The signing of the agreement marked a milestone in relations between the two countries.该协议的签署标志着两国关系的一个里程碑。
- a milestone in one's life
- 人生中的一个里程碑
- Graduating from college is a milestone in a young person's life.大学毕业是年轻人人生中的一个里程碑。
- milestone birthday
- 里程碑式的生日
- Her sixtieth birthday was a milestone birthday for the whole family.她的六十岁生日对全家来说是一个里程碑式的生日。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 mile（英里）+ stone（石头）：路边标记英里数的石头，引申为重要的里程碑。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：roadside distance markers、transport history 该义项指路边标示距离的石碑，多用于描述道路距离标记或交通史上的里程标志，语气通常比较中性。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Milestone ends with the same /stoʊn/ sound as stone, bone, phone, cone, tone, and alone (alone also ends in /oʊn/). Note that milestone's main stress is on the first syllable, so it is not a perfect rhyme with those single-stress words; the final -stone carries only secondary stress. Also, words like one /wʌn/, done /dʌn/, and none /nʌn/ look similar but sound different.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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