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单词 stepping-stone
释义

stepping-stonen.

Forms: Also Middle English stoppyngston, 1600s Scottish stopping stane, stapping ston.
Etymology: stepping n.
1. A stone for stepping upon.
a. A stone placed in the bed of a stream or on muddy or swampy ground, to facilitate crossing on foot. Chiefly plural, referring to a row or line of such stones.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > stepping-stone
stepping-stonec1325
step-stone1868
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 159 S [t] eping-stones passueres.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 515 Caliow fusil et passuer. Flynt firehiron stoppyngston.
1550 R. Bowes in J. C. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. 184 From thence till a place over a letche or litle sicket called the stepping stones.
1579 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 189 Steppingstones to be sett be tweene Frear Poole.
1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Passand to ane grene dyk besouth the stopping stanes of the Ile-ark.
1655 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 91 The water..ran away some of the stapping stons at Nether Largo.
1682 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1881) II. 303 Going over stepping stones at a brook.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 12 Like stepping Stones to save a Stride, In Streets where Kennels are too wide.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 115 Once he [sc. the Dominie] fell into the brook crossing at the stepping-stones.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter ix, in Poems (new ed.) 37 The tall flagflower that sprung Beside the noisy steppingstones.
1852 E. W. Benson Diary 3 June in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) I. iii. 110 I reached the Abbey by the stepping-stones.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 189 Kit crossed the brook at the stepping-stones.
b. A raised stone on which the foot can be placed to facilitate a climb or ascent; spec. ‘a horse-block’ (Halliwell). rare in literal sense: see 2.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block
mounting place1490
riding block1570
block1614
mounting block1659
horsing stone1661
horsing-block1662
upping-stocka1697
joss-block1706
horse-block1713
mounting stone1794
upping-block1796
upping-stone1809
horse-steps1828
leaping-on-stone1837
stepping-stone1837
stirrup-stone1838
pillion stone1907
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > a step
stepc825
degreec1290
gree1303
stridea1400
grece1448
stair?1473
footstep1549
grade1698
stepping-stone1837
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxviii. 287 The stile..was full three feet high, and had only a couple of stepping-stones.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand xi He sat down on one of the stepping~stones placed to aid travellers in mounting their horses.
c. transferred. A place for a break of journey.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey
gist?c1225
mansiona1382
baiting1477
station1578
mansion place1584
manzil1619
night stop1787
gite1798
outspan1821
halting-place1826
stopping-place1827
stepping-stone1849
waypoint1860
landing-place1861
stop-off1869
stop-over1881
siding1896
half-way1897
sit-down1898
pull-up1899
1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 104 The intermediate clouds serving as intermediate conductors, or stepping-stones as it were for the electric fluid.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine xii. 398 ‘Chittim’ thus became the first stepping-stone to the isles of the West.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 274 Some islands may have intervened between them [the Galapagos] and the coast, and have served as stepping-stones by which the passage to them of various organisms would be greatly facilitated.
2. figurative. Something that is used as a means of rising in the world, or of making progress towards some object; often, a position, office, or the like, that serves to afford opportunity for further advancement.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage > means of
stepping-stone1653
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank > occasion or means of
stairs1585
stair1596
setting-forth1602
stepping-stone1653
rise1697
lift1711
leg up1871
a step in the right direction1877
a step up1926
fast track1946
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 47 Some Ministers lately put in, are young, weak, and indiscreet, and fit matter for them to contemn, and modestly to make stepping stones to their own reputation.
1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 149 She has..made them stepping Stones to her own Grandeur.
1773 W. Eden in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 59 His office..would suit our friend Hare exactly, as an introduction or stepping-stone to something better.
1806 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 248 [They] would see through it too clearly to allow themselves to be made stepping-stones for their Lordships to mount into power by.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam i. l I held it truth..That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 49 Those obstacles his genius had turned into stepping stones.
1884 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 19 583 Such a shorthand would serv as a stepping-stone from the ordinary Roman alfabet to such a one as Bell's Vizibl Speech.
1891 Speaker 11 July 36/1 A type of snobbery which regards the established religion as a stepping~stone to respectability.
1898 R. B. O'Brien Life C. S. Parnell I. viii. 168 Agrarian revolution was to be made the stepping-stone to separation from England.

Phrases

to stand upon (or on) stepping stones: to advance gradually and cautiously. Obsolete.
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1637 S. Rutherford Let. 5 Jan. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 273 I see Christ will not prig with me nor stand upon stepping stones, but cometh in at the broad side without ceremonies.
a1658 J. Durham Christ Crucified (1683) xxi. 145/1 To shew the riches and freedom of his grace,..that stands not (to speak so) on stepping-stones, but comes over the greatest gulfs of sin and enmity in the creature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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