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당신과 나의
획기적 이정표는?
영어 이야기
milestone
[maiˈlstoun]
이정표 (里程標 )
획기적 사건
미국에서는 종종 한국에서 볼 수 없는 일이 많은데
그것은 대학 졸업보다 고등학교 졸업을 더 중요하게 생각한다는 것이다,
고등학교 졸업 30 년 축하모임은 Class 93 라고 하면서
그들의 고등학교 졸업해인 1993 년의 93을 강조한다
고등학교 졸업을 대학 졸업보다 강조한 것은
고등학교만 졸업하고 대학에 진학하지 않은 동창들이 공부하고 뛰놀던
동창 (同窓 / 교실의 창문)이 마지작이기 때문일 것이다.
그들에게는 ~
Graduation from high high in America must be an important milestone.
미국에서의 고등학교 졸업은 중요한 이정표임에 틀림없다
사람마다 다르겠지만 대부분의 동물 (인간을 포함한)에게
다음과 같은 '사건'이 획기적인 때라고 생각한다,
A MILESTONE in a baby's life when weaning him (or her) from the mother.
간난아기의 이정표는 어머니로부터 젖을 뗄 때이다.
(baby 는 중성명사이므로 대명사로 it 을 써야하지만
간난 아기를 인격적으로 대우하기 위해 him/ her 이라 했음)
대한민국 근대사에서 획기적인 때를 이렇게 보는 역사가도 많다
The Incheon Landing Operation was a big MILESTONE in Korean history.
인천 상륙작전은 한국 역사에서 커다란 이정표였다.
나 자신의 획기적 때는 미국으로 삶의 터를 옮긴 때인데
그것으로 끝나지 않고 ~
I reached the important MILESTONE when my family moved to America,
I had to move on to the next step.
내가 미국으로 (삶의 터를) 옮길 때 중요한 이정표였지만
나는 다음 단계로 옮겨야 했다.
나 처럼 큰 결단을 내린 이정표의 때가 있지만, 보편적인 것이 있는데
그것은 바로 'birthday milestone'이다.
A MILESTONE birthday can be the perfect time to take advantage of the 'fresh-start effect.'
획기적 생일은 '새로운 시작'에 편승하는 완전한
시기일 수 있다.
(Psychology Today, September 11, 2023)
한국에서는 '첫돌'을
획기적 생일이라 하고,
20살 40살 등을 획기적 생일이라고 한다.
다 그런건 아니지만
미국에서는 자동차 면허를 획득할 수 있는 '16살'을
기대하기도 한다.
16th birthday in which they can get a driver's license is a MILESTONE day in America.
미국에서는 자동차 면허를 획득할 수 있는 16번 째 생일이
이정표가 되는 날이다.
milestone 은 1800년과
1900년에 많이 사용되다가
점점 사용빈도가 낮아졌으며
요즈음 조금씩 상승되고
있음이 다행이다.
When was an important MILESTONE in your life?
언제가 당신 삶의 중요한
계기였나?
California Eureka
MILESTONE birthdays spur mental accounting that motivates movement toward desired goals.
MOTIVATION
The Science of Milestone Birthdays
Take advantage of the "fresh-start effect" as you flip that calendar page.
Posted September 11, 2023
Reviewed by Hara Estroff Marano
The Incheon Landing Operation was a big milestone in Korean history
The day I got married was a milestone in my life.
I think my milestone birthday was when I turned 50
Graduation from junior
high is an important milestone
Once we reach the first milestone, we can move on to the next one
Developing computer science was a milestone in human history
The first missions to the moon were a milestone for humankind.Share on FacebookShare
The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.
This victory was a milestone in our country's history.
Each birthday is a milestone we touch along life's way.
May your birthday be happy in more ways than one.
For us, a major and exciting milestone.
A milestone in a baby's life is when they learn how to walk.
Starting school is a milestone for both children and parents.
"we passed a milestone that said it was 30 miles to York"
Each birthday is a milestone we meet along life's way.
The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of transportation.
What do you think has been the biggest milestone in your personal growth?
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KEY POINTS
People tend to pause and take stock of their lives when they find themselves approaching a milestone birthday.
A milestone birthday can be the perfect time to take advantage of the “fresh-start effect.”
Milestone birthdays spur mental accounting that motivates movement toward desired goals.
The Latin is “milia passuum,” meaning a thousand paces. The Romans also erected stone markers at mile intervals to notify the passerby of distances covered or the number of miles to go to reach their destination. These markers were conveniently called milestones.
Organized by Vatican special envoy Matteo Calisi ("United in Christ"), in collusion with Mike Bickle's IHOP.KC and by John Arnott's "Catch the Fire". This ecumenical event is a major MILESTONE on the road back to Rome -
mile (n.)
unit of linear measure in Great Britain, the U.S., and a few other countries, formerly used in most European countries before the metric system; Old English mil, from West Germanic *milja (source also of Middle Dutch mile, Dutch mijl, Old High German mila, German Meile), from Latin milia "thousands," plural of mille "a thousand" (neuter plural was mistaken in Germanic as a fem. singular), which is of unknown origin.
The Latin word also is the source of French mille, Italian miglio, Spanish milla. The Scandinavian words (Old Norse mila, etc.) are from English. An ancient Roman mile was 1,000 double paces (one step with each foot), for about 4,860 feet, but many local variants developed, in part in an attempt to reconcile the mile with the agricultural system of measurements. Consequently, old European miles were of various lengths. The medieval English mile was 6,610 feet; the old London mile was 5,000 feet. In Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, the Latin word was applied arbitrarily to the ancient Germanic rasta, a measure of from 3.25 to 6 English miles. In England the ordinary mile was set by legal act at 320 perches (5,280 feet) by statute in Elizabeth's reign.
In Middle English the word also was a unit of time, "about 20 minutes," roughly what was required to walk a mile. The word has been used generically since 1580s for "a great distance." Mile-a-minute (adj.) "very fast" is attested from 1957 in railroad publications (automobiles had attained 60 mph by 1903).
The apostasy that is uniting many aberrant streams of Christianity in the one-world religion predicted in the book of Revelation is happening before our eyes. Wake up - the church is on fire!In a couple of months, I’ll be celebrating a milestone birthday. I’ll be exiting one decade of my life and entering another. While I’m not the kind of person who tends to mark milestone birthdays in a big, flashy way, I do pay attention to them, treating each as an opportunity to check in with myself and to map out the next leg of my journey through life.
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The science of milestone birthdays
Apparently, I’m not alone when it comes to indulging in a bit of milestone-birthday navel-gazing. Studies show that a lot of people pause to take stock of their lives when they find themselves approaching a milestone birthday; and, according to one group of researchers, the effect is particularly pronounced for those of us whose current age ends in a nine (age 39, 49, or 59, for example). In fact, they even gave us our own name, referring to us as “9-enders”! Apparently, we “9-enders” are likely to engage in a lot of introspection, treating a milestone birthday as an invitation to connect the dots between where we’ve been, where we are right now, and where we hope to head next in our lives.
For this reason, a milestone birthday can be the perfect time to set new goals for yourself. As you head into a fresh decade in your life, you can take advantage of what researchers at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania have described as the “fresh-start effect.”
Basically, you’re distinguishing between old you and new you: the person you’ve been and the person you hope to become.
You’re able to make this distinction by performing a bit of mental gymnastics. You simply need to convince your brain that you’re closing the books on the previous decade in your life and entering into a whole new “mental accounting period.” It’s a pretty cool trick!
My own fresh start
When I was in my 40s, I was completely sedentary. I did everything I could to avoid anything even remotely resembling physical activity. But as I started getting closer to my 50th birthday, I recognized that something had to change. I needed to make an effort to move my body more often. And so I decided that the “me” who would soon be entering her 50s was going to be a physically active person. That’s exactly what happened. I made the identity shift and became a person who walks for roughly an hour every day. I’m still that person a decade later!
Making it a birthday worth celebrating
If the fresh-start effect sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the very same phenomenon that fuels all those New Year’s resolutions: the desire to become a new person this year, as opposed to the version of yourself that you happened to be last year. In much the same way, celebrating a milestone birthday can give you the nudge needed to take a step back from the day-to-day and think deeply about what you actually want for yourself moving forward.
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I find that really exciting—an invitation to imagine new and different things for ourselves as we grow older.
Happy birthday to us!
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