headway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++head·way /ˈhedweɪ/ noun make headway a) PROGRESSto make progress towards achieving something – used especially when this is difficult 取得〔艰难的〕进展make headway towards/in/with etc Foreign firms have made little headway in the US market. 外国公司在美国市场进展甚微。 b) FORWARDto move forwards – used especially when this is slow or difficult 〔尤指缓慢或艰难地〕向前行进 Stormy weather stopped the ship from making headway. 船在暴风雨天气里不能向前开。
Examples from the Corpus
headway• We turned into Dwyer Street and I still hadn't made any headway.• Finally, he grants Bennett access to his old papers, but Bennett can make little headway with them.• This option largely failed to make headway for many of the basic theoretical reasons that were outlined in Chapter 2.• In three sensitive areas-tax administration, education and pensions-Jospin found it impossible to make headway.• The ship had trouble making headway because of the storms.• However, on this conclusion, Keynes made no headway.• Given newspapers to read, he could make no headway because everything, every headline, opened out to widening associations.• They could make no headway against such a cyclone, and ran back down the slope to the cover of the woods.• I note that you've made some headway towards solving things on the technical front.head·way nounChineseSyllable
make achieving – progress towards something to used Corpus
headway
head‧way /ˈhedweɪ/
noun
make headway
a. to make progress towards achieving something – used especially when this is difficult
make headway towards/in/with etc
Foreign firms have made little headway in the US market.
b. to move forwards – used especially when this is slow or difficult:
Stormy weather stopped the ship from making headway.
head‧way /ˈhedweɪ/
nounmake headway
a. to make progress towards achieving something – used especially when this is difficult
make headway towards/in/with etc
b. to move forwards – used especially when this is slow or difficult:
