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headway

/hed-wey/US // ˈhɛdˌweɪ //UK // (ˈhɛdˌweɪ) //

前途,前进的道路,前景,进展情况

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
    • : progress in general: headway in a career.
    • : rate of progress: a slight headway against concerted opposition.
    • : the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.

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Examples

  • Certainly the technical ambitions seem more modest than what the folks at companies like Boston Dynamics are currently working on, but Iris Ohyama seems well-positioned to make some headway in the home robotics category to start.

  • Armed with a wealth of new data from 2020, scientists hope to be able to make some headway.

  • We’ll see if bills to provide that support and funding introduced by San Diego lawmakers will make any headway in the state Legislature next year.

  • Companies such as Waymo, Cruise, and Baidu have all made strong headway as industry pioneers.

  • Combined, it shows just how serious the company is about making headway in this valuable area.

  • The agents in charge were under immense pressure to make headway in the case.

  • There are also few, if any, global challenges on which meaningful headway can be made without robust U.S.-Chinese ties.

  • He loved to talk tough about crime and illegal immigration, but managed to make little headway curbing either.

  • Joyce had made even less headway with Ulysses, a work he had been planning since 1906.

  • McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway.

  • The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.

  • In the later half of the campaign of 1806 he hopelessly failed to make any headway against the Russians east of the Vistula.

  • Only by Smith's instinctive sense of direction did we make any headway toward the mouth of Sage Creek.

  • This pernicious practice has unfortunately obtained much headway in the United States and in Germany.

  • Jem, the driver of the roadster, crashed through the bushes just as the Comet was getting under its own headway.