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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These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility.

如果这些学生想把学位作为进入中产阶级的垫脚石，那么他们需要在大学期间积累技能和知识。

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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.

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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,".

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What she opposed was using the single market as a stepping stone to closer political union.

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Or is it really a kind of pidgin, a stepping stone to a language?

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Often, attendance at these schools is a stepping stone to more traditional four-year universities.

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