She felt far more lonely now in the brilliant sunshine of morning. And for an instant she saw herself travelling steadily along a straight road, from which she could not diverge. She passed milestone after milestone. And now, not far off, she saw in the distance a great darkness in which the road ended. And the darkness was the ultimate loneliness which can encompass on earth the human spirit. The tram-bell sounded. She lifted her head mechanically. A moment later she was rushing down towards Naples.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
But before the actual robbery took place, Richard had obtained enough evidence against his crook companions to turn them over to the police and eventually land them in prison. It was during these days that he wrote his first story for a magazine, and the following letter shows that it was something of a milestone in his career. PHILADELPHIA. August, 1888. DEAR FAMILY:
The St. Nicholas people sent me a check for $50 for the "pirate" story. It would be insupportable affectation to say that I was not delighted. Jennings Crute and I were waiting for breakfast when I found the letter.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
Jack Cooper could read enough to know all that was upon the milestones and the sign-posts.英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
And all this recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point where you may be told why Dry Valley shook up the insoluble sulphur in the bottle. So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history--the anamorphous shadow of a milestone reaching down the road between us and the setting sun.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
People pretend that the Bible means the same to them at 50 that it did at all former milestones in their journey. I wonder how they can lie so. It comes of practice, no doubt. They would not say that of Dickens's or Scott's books. Nothing remains the same. When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for. Shrunk how? Why, to its correct dimensions: the house hasn't altered; this is the first time it has been in focus.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 4》
They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,
And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears. It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,
But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.英文原著 · 《Main Street and Other Poems》
You know, if we don't mark the milestones, we're just passing with the time.美剧 · 《Billions》
And Edie told me the new owner wants to rent it, So now I'll have a fighting chance Of being around when m. J. Hits his milestones.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》