A flagstone is a big, flat, fairly smooth piece of stone that people lay on the ground to make a path, an outdoor sitting place, steps, or sometimes a floor in an old house. You walk on it.

A flagstone is a big, flat, fairly smooth piece of stone that people lay on the ground to make a path, an outdoor sitting place, steps, or sometimes a floor in an old housea flagstone是一塊又大又扁、相當平滑的石頭，人們把它鋪在地上做成步道、戶外坐的地方、階梯，或有時候是老房子裡的地板。You walk on it你會走在上面。

The top is usually a little rough, not shiny like a kitchen tile, and rain can make it dark and wet.

The top is usually a little rough表面通常有點粗糙，not shiny like a kitchen tile不像廚房磁磚那樣光滑，and rain can make it dark and wet下雨會讓它變暗、變濕。

Flag here is an old word for a flat piece of stone that splits off in sheets — it is not the flag you wave on a pole, though the two look the same on the page.

Flag here is an old word for a flat piece of stone that splits off in sheets這裡的flag是一個舊字，指會一片片剝落的扁平石頭——it is not the flag you wave on a pole這不是你在旗桿上揮舞的那種flag（旗子），though the two look the same on the page儘管兩個字寫出來一樣。

Builders and garden people use the word a lot; in ordinary talk you more often just say stone path. A whole walk made this way is a flagstone path, or just flagstones.

Builders and garden people use the word a lot建築工人和園藝人士很常用這個字；in ordinary talk you more often just say stone path一般說話時你比較常直接說stone path（石板步道）。A whole walk made this way is a flagstone path, or just flagstones整條用這種方式鋪成的步道叫flagstone path，或直接叫flagstones。