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inroad

/in-rohd/US // ˈɪnˌroʊd //UK // (ˈɪnˌrəʊd) //

进展情况,进展顺利,进展,进展中

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings.
    • : a sudden hostile or predatory incursion; raid; foray.

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Examples

  • A report recently said the company, which has amassed over 360,000 merchants in the country, was struggling to make inroads in India.

  • Johnny DiPuglia, the Nationals’ assistant general manager in charge of international operations, has made huge inroads in the area since joining the organization in 2009.

  • In doing so, they’ve made inroads of their own, especially in connecting polynomials to geometry and narrowing the field of possible answers to Hilbert’s question.

  • Quantum computing made significant inroads in 2020, including the Jiuzhang computer’s achievement of quantum supremacy.

  • JBL was sold to Harman International in 1969 and began making substantial inroads in the home speaker market.

  • Peter looked at the pile of correspondence upon which Sogrange's inroad, indeed, seemed to have had but little effect.

  • But should the Long Island Indians prevail, an inroad upon the main would bring them dangerously near to the new towns.

  • During the reign of 'the boy king' the Aztecs made an inroad, aided by the Tecos and other unruly tribes.

  • The latter was soon felt by the Romans in many a hostile inroad.

  • This was called the Whiggamors inroad; and ever after, all that opposed the court came in contempt to be called Whigs.