inroad

劍橋詞典

?make inroads/an inroad

to start to have a direct and noticeable effect (on something)
取得進展；産生傚果
The government is definitely making inroads into the problem of unemployment . 政府在処理失業(yè)問題上毫無疑問取得了進展。
We have not been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . 我們在処理積壓事務(wù)方麪沒有太多進展。 返回 inroad