make headway

英 [meɪk ˈhedweɪ]

美 [meɪk ˈhedweɪ]

前进;取得进展

英英释义

verb

• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
  1. The home team was gaining ground
  2. After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference
  Synonym:gainadvancewinpull aheadget aheadgain ground

双语例句

• In Kurdistan the reformists of Goran, which did well in regional elections a year ago, failed to make headway.
  库尔德改革派政党戈兰在去年的地方选举中取得了不错的成绩，但这次也未能更进一步。
• This could explain why Britain, a nation passionate about tea-drinking but where almost everybody adds milk to their cup, fails to make headway against cardiovascular disease.
  这就是英国这个热爱饮茶，却几乎人人都往茶中加牛奶的国度在对抗心血管疾病方面并无进展的原因。
• In some ways, the auto industry's love of minicars here is reminiscent of Japanese smartphone makers, which geared features heavily toward Japanese consumers and struggled to make headway overseas.
  在某种程度上，日本汽车业对微型车的青睐令人联想起日本智能手机制造商的境况，后者开发了非常迎合日本消费者的功能，而难以在海外市场取得进展。
• Eg. we cannot make headway in the countryside unless we perform this task.
  这个任务如果不解决，我们在农村中就不能前进。
• Equities will find it hard to make headway in 2009 and there will not be a strong recovery until credit market conditions show real signs of improvement and forced selling abates.
  股市会发现，在2009年很难取得进展。而且，在信贷市场显示出真正好转的迹象以及被迫抛售的情况减轻之前，不会出现强劲的反弹。
• China has pledged to substantially cut greenhouse gas emissions from its factories and power plants, in a bid to make headway in the stalled United Nations climate change talks.
  中国已承诺大幅削减其工厂与发电站的温室气体排放量，以推动已陷入停滞的联合国（un）气候变化谈判。
• Analysts say it has been able to make headway because of management determination to understand overseas markets, overcome cultural issues and transform Lenovo into a global enterprise.
  分析师们表示，联想已能在这方面取得进展，因为管理层决心去了解海外市场、克服文化问题并将联想打造为一家国际企业。
• Talks are finally beginning to make headway.
  谈判最终有了进展的迹象。
• It wasn't until I started to make headway ( albeit incremental) in Chinese that I started to feel truly comfortable here, to begin becoming Tall Rice.
  只有我在中文方面进步了，我才开始真正适应，开始成为米高。
• In other words, unless his ideas are adopted, the worker-peasant alliance has no hope of success, national construction cannot make headway, and there will be no hope for socialism!
  就是说，如果不采纳梁漱溟的意见，就没有希望搞好工农联盟，就办不好国家建设，社会主义也就没有希望了！