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 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。
• 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。
• Talks are finally beginning to make headway.
  谈判最终有了进展的迹象。
• The ships have to make headway against the heavy seas. The stormy waves pounded against the rocks.
  这些船将必须与浪涛汹涌的大海搏击。汹涌澎湃的波浪猛烈地冲击着岩石。
• The Delegation stated that it had worked in good faith, wanting to make headway and had shown as much flexibility as it could.
  代表团指出，它为了取得一些进展一直在真诚地工作，并且也尽其所能地表现出了最大的灵活性。
• 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！
• 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。
• Alcatel is also relatively strong in North America, a region where Nokia has only begun to make headway after recent deals with Sprint.
  此外，相对来说阿尔卡特在北美的实力也很强，而诺基亚在该地区才刚刚通过近期与Sprint的交易取得进展。
• 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。
• To be sure, the incentives are increasing for China and Brazil to make headway on investment and Chinese companies have made some inroads.
  可以肯定，推动中国与巴西在投资方面进一步合作的激励因素正在增加，而且中国企业已经取得了一些进展。