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

• On Tuesday, the foreign ministers of the two nations met at the United Nations but failed to make headway in talks.
  周二，中国外交部长和日本外务大臣在联合国举行会面，但会谈没有取得进展。
• The project of the Three Gorges attracts worldwide attention, but the key to make headway and to success in this project lies just in the migration work.
  移民工作是三峡工程进展和成功的关键，目前已经进入二期移民。
• He is not disappointed at the failure to make headway towards resolving their differences
  他们之间的分歧依然未能解决，他对此并不感到沮丧。
• In order to make headway, it is essential to sum up the relationship between the project and the industrial structure adjustment and promulgate the follow-up policy.
  退耕还林工程的实施与农村产业结构调整关系密切，为保证工程取得成效，有必要总结工程实施对产业结构调整的影响，并制定完善的工程后续政策。
• 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。
• Western-based exchanges have also regularly failed to make headway developing derivatives contracts for Middle East crude in the last 20 years.
  西方交易所在过去20年内也无法成功制定针对中东原油的衍生品合约。
• 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。
• 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。
• Foreign banks are failing to make headway in China and will not create profitable mainland businesses just through riding the expected growth in the markets, according to a study.
  一份研究报告显示，外资银行在华业务一直未能取得太大进展，仅靠搭乘内地市场预期增长的顺风车，也将无法实现盈利。
• 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！