| 词汇 | inroad |
| 释义 | inroad noun[ C ] uk /ˈɪn.rəʊd/ us /ˈɪn.roʊd/ make inroads/an inroad to start to have a direct and noticeable effect (on something): 取得进展；产生效果 make inroads/an inroad intoThe government is definitely making inroads into the problem of unemployment.政府在处理失业问题上毫无疑问取得了进展。 We have not been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work.我们在处理积压事务方面没有太多进展。 Affecting and influencing across-the-board affect applicability be/fall under someone's influence/spellidiom bear on something carry colour ear inspiration instrumental instrumentality instrumentally interinfluence pen rail spill spill over sportswashing start (something) off talismanic inroad | Business Englishinroad noun[ C ] uk /ˈɪnrəʊd/us something that has a noticeable and positive effect on something you are trying to achieve: The deal marks the first major inroad into the country's domestic market. make inroads in/into sth to start to have a noticeable and positive effect on something: The grant for a new job-creation scheme should make inroads into the community's unemployment problem. U.S. consumer-goods companies are finally making inroads in this fast-growing market of 45 million people. Examples of inroadinroad They made inroads on their own traditional attachment to ' capital ' and implemented a tax on short-term capital gains in 1962. In telecommunications, actors with strong preferences in favour of liberalisation were beginning to make substantial inroads into the policy process. This cost will become the focus of attention if eco-forestry and directly subsidized forestry projects make significant inroads into areas earmarked for industrial logging concessions. Although the program made some significant inroads into racial inequalities, it also was greatly limited in that respect. There is no doubt that further researches will reveal more medical applications and make further inroads into our understanding of the complexity of the brain. In addition to these coproductions, women, through their own writing, make inroads in literacy that match their assumption of heretofore male occupations. This latency period is now over and at present molecular biology techniques are making inroads in all fields of clinical medicine. By then the battle against competitions, and by extension, against corporate inroads into the profession, had been lost. One linguistic area where computers have made important inroads is the compiling of dictionaries. Ties of affection and a caring debt make no inroads into inheritance practices. Hybrid cultures and transnational media organizations have made significant inroads into national cultures and national identities. I understand pedagogy as a wide, sometimes rather fuzzy field, with many possible inroads to atomising children, services for children and the workforce. Both these works make invaluable inroads into this highly rich and difficult terrain. However, where inroads have been made, associational autonomy from the state and dominant party has proved critical. The article concludes that while the opposition improved on its 1992 performance, its inroads were actually fairly limited. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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