Milestone的意思|Milestone的解释-里氏词典

milestone ['mailstәun]

n. 里程碑, 里程石, 里程标

milestone

[ noun ]

stone post at side of a road to show distances

<noun.communication>

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

<noun.event>

Milestone \Mile"stone`\, n.
1. A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

2. An event or accomplishment marking a significant advance
in an endeavor; a notable achievment; as, putting a man in
orbit was a major milestone on the way to the moon.

Syn: milepost.
[PJC]

Mr Sharif had been seeking to remove the presidential powers which Mr Khan used to dismiss him, as well to eject Ms Bhutto's government in 1990. Mr Sharif described the judgment as an important milestone in Pakistan's history.
While the spring growth will be a milestone, Giedraitis said, it could be two years before the tree is "out of the woods."
"We are witnessing an additional significant milestone in the battle to change AIDS from a fatal disease to a treatable one," said Louis W. Sullivan, secretary of Health and Human Services.
The two sides are to meet Friday in Konstanz, West Germany, for a supposed milestone meeting in the long-simmering dispute.
For Mr. Gorbachev, a trip to Beijing would be a milestone for his so-called "new political thinking," which stresses the need for international cooperation.
The shuttle Discovery made its long-delayed trip to the launch pad Monday, a milestone in the rebirth of America's space program that was hailed by workers who streamed by the pad in an 18-mile-long line of cars.
Will Maastricht be a milestone or a headstone? It won't be a headstone.
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is a milestone.
For the Democratic Party's most prominent non-candidates, Super Tuesday marks a milestone _ it's too late to step in and win the presidential nomination through the primaries.
That was a second milestone.
The Amsco offering, expected to be made in late March, would be a milestone on the return journey of commercial banks into securities underwriting.
If it goes through, as expected, the purchase will mark a milestone in Mannesmann's strategy of diversifying into automotive and telecommunication technologies as its core engineering and steel-tubing operations continue to stagnate.
With the milestone under his belt, he returned to business and struck out seven more.
For Nixon, it was a major milestone in his relentless drive for acceptance.
Royal is passing another milestone, with Allan Taylor, its chief executive, retiring to make way for the more assertive (and considerably younger) John Cleghorn.
"Each time we've hit a milestone in the processing flow, enthusiasm has built.
"We passed another milestone on freedom's road _ a victory not for African Americans alone but for all New Yorkers and for all Americans," Dinkins said.
In the corporate bond market, the banking industry crossed a major milestone when Bankers Trust New York Corp. became the first commercial bank to lead an underwriting group for a corporate bond offering since the early 1930s.
He was spending the milestone birthday unveiling a sweeping proposal to clean up the nation's polluted air, then hopping aboard Air Force One to visit one of America's most pristine settings, the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Thus, a first milestone has been reached on the road to rebuilding an international monetary order, though it rests on the will and ability of governments to impose self-discipline.
"It's an important milestone," allows the soft-spoken, somewhat shy Mr. Fell, whose schoolboy manner sets him apart in an industry of colorful promoters and gruff mining engineers.
However good Karaoke and Cold Lazarus may be, The Singing Detective from 1986 will always be seen as a - arguably the - chief milestone in the first 50 years of the development of television drama.
From a company less than two years old, it was spectacular. The operation is a milestone in Sweden's progress out of the crisis that overwhelmed its banking sector in 1992.
This milestone adventure into foreign territory sets the stage for many years of schooling to come, and calm preparation by mom and dad can help ease the strain, federal educators report.
FCC Chairman Dennis Patrick described the commission action as "a major milestone" in telephone regulation.
It marks a milestone in Mr Murdoch's efforts to build it into the leading network in the US.
The main point of this "Much Ado," however, is not the production itself but the milestone it represents for theater here.
It was an important milestone for a plant that is already a decade behind schedule and billions over budget.
Abraham Van Oberbeeke, the Dutch spokesman for consuming nations, called the result a "milestone."
Though yesterday's milestone was hailed on Wall Street, many professionals don't expect the index to stay above 2000 long.

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