headway的意思|headway的解释-里氏词典

headway ['hedwei]

n. 前进, 航行速度, 进展

[经] 进尺, 钻井

The boat made slow headway against the tide.
那船逆著潮水缓慢地前进.
We are making little headway with the negotiations.
我们在谈判中没有取得什麽进展.
Did you make any headway in your research work?
你们的研究工作有进展吗？

headway

[ noun ]

vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

<noun.quantity>

forward movement

<noun.event>

the ship made little headway against the gale

Headway \Head"way`\ (-w[^u]rk`), n.
1. The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or
success of any kind.

2. (Arch.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like,
sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath; clearance;
headroom.

However, he says, U.S. machine tool builders are making headway against those problems.
The UFCW appears to be making headway in certification efforts at two other IBP plants, labor sources indicate.
A soggy showing on Wall Street also hindered any headway in London, dealers said, where oil stocks were also falling back and several corporate earnings from the Big Three U.S. car makers were disappointing.
Venezuela has begun a program, but renegotiations of about $21 billion of its $34.6 billion foreign debt have made little headway.
It said both parties expressed their "well-known positions on the question of sovereignty," an indication little headway was made in the fifth round of talks since Britain and Spain agreed in November 1984 to discuss sovereignty.
Carlucci and Yazov did 90 percent of the talking, but they appeared to make little headway in resolving such fundamental disputes as who has the larger military.
And Governor Jim Edgar of Illinois, a Republican, has been insistently calling for a truce in the bidding wars by all states. At a National Governors' Association meeting in August, Mr Edgar made some headway toward his goal.
The two sides have made little headway since signing an agreement March 23 to seek a negotiated settlement to the almost seven-year war.
Unions also appeared to have made headway in their demand for a role in running the economy in this country of 3.7 million residents.
But non-banks continued to make headway in the credit card market, in part because both Visa and archrival MasterCard International allowed non-banks to issue cards jointly with member banks.
The stock also benefited from an upgrading by Morgan Stanley. However, with the US Treasury market showing weakness as the afternoon progressed, most stocks failed to make much headway.
A barge to haul cleanup equipment was down for repairs, making the response too late to make much headway on the quickly spreading oil.
Mr Kim Chul-su of South Korea, with Japan and most of Asia behind him, is also proving a more formidable candidate than expected. Meanwhile, intensive negotiations this month in Geneva on China's bid to join Gatt and the WTO have made little headway.
Though Ershad gave Bangladesh a measure of political stability after a quick succession of military-installed presidents, he made little headway in alleviating the misery of his people.
And with the network expanding rapidly, the company can look forward to surging revenues from telephone usage. The company has also made headway in dealing with another long-term problem -low local telephone rates.
Without such co-operation it is hard to see how T50 could make any headway in ABB's Swedish plants, where the unions remain powerful. In part, the strategy has developed in response to the expressed views of the company's own employees.
In the judgment of many economists, the president-elect will have only until early spring to make headway on reducing the deficit.
Emaudio is already making headway in the expanding newspaper market here.
"It really doesn't bode well for the market to get a good number like this (the durable-goods report) and then not make headway on the upside," said John R. Burrus, president and chief executive officer of CRT Government Securities Ltd.
I think we made some headway," he said after the appearance.
Brazil, a nation of 150 million people, had been making headway against illiteracy.
Since 1983, the 52-year-old Mr. Reamer has made surprising headway.
But he admitted that time was not on his side. After a fourth day of talks in Belfast with Unionist and nationalist leaders about the venue for talks involving the Irish government, Mr Brooke suggested he was making some headway in reaching a compromise.
Industry analysts regard the Chen investment as just one step IBM is likely to take to make headway in scientific computing, estimated to be a $20 billion market by 1991.
Democrat Michael Dukakis trailed since the beginning of the campaign and made little headway among blacks who supported Jesse Jackson in the March Super Tuesday primary.
That process was slow, gradually gaining headway during the latter years of Reagan's presidency, and accelerating this year, after President Bush had succeeded him.
Since 1988, the PLO seemed to be making some headway with its proposal to trade recognition of Israel's right to exist for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
CIS growth made some headway.
Malaysia has had seven previous elections since independence, but in those votes, the fragmented opposition made little headway against the National Front, establishing only regional bases of power.
A previous delegation met with Gorbachev adviser Alexander N. Yakovlev but made no headway toward settling the dispute.

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