柯林斯英汉双解大词典
stepping stone (also steppingstone)
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N-COUNT You can describe a job or event as a stepping stone when it helps you to make progress, especially in your career. 垫脚石; 进身之阶
例：It is just another stepping stone to bigger and better things.
这只不过是通往那些更大更好事情的又一块垫脚石。
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2.
N-COUNT Stepping stones are a line of large stones which you can walk on in order to cross a shallow stream or river. (小溪或河流中的) 踏脚石
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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It is just another stepping stone to bigger and better things.
这只不过是通往那些更大更好事情的又一块垫脚石。
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Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kid's clothes.
行业出版物建议百货商店，为了增加销售额，他们应该在婴儿装和大童装之间建立“第三块垫脚石”。
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See failure as a stepping stone to success.
把失败当做通往成功的垫脚石。
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That budget would end funding for the Constellation program, which would have returned U.S.astronauts to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
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And one of the things we really try to use the Capstone project for is a stepping stone into what you are going to do with your application.
我们很想利用总结性课程,作为踏脚石，让学生,更顺利地展开应用。
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"This will serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready, to improve itself, to look at the organization, to look at the quality of the facilities,and therefore I hope this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready,".
VOA: standard.2009.10.22
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