make headway

取得进展

【背景知识】

3月27日，国家版权局、海关总署等有关部门就联合加强知识产权行政执法等问题举行了发布会。国家版权局副局长阎晓宏说，打击知识产权犯罪不可能一蹴而就，但政府的诸多努力和措施已颇见成效，知识产权保护正稳步取得进展。

【相关报道】

Intellectual property right (IPR) violations cannot be eliminated overnight but China will speed up the process, a top copyright official pledged yesterday in Beijing. The government has been resolute, andmade headway, in cracking down on infringements and piracy of laser discs and software, said Yan Xiaohong, deputy chief of the National Copyright Administration of China.

报道中的make headway是个固定搭配，指“取得进展”，其近义词组如：make progress，make an improvement，get ahead。

Headway原属于航海词汇，指“前后两船之间的距离”，后引申为轮船或火车的运行速度。举两个例子：The headway between each bus is fixed at three minutes.（每两班公共汽车之间的时距定为3分钟。）；Little headway has been made in educational reform.（教育改革几乎没有进展。）