| 单词 | headwind |
| 释义 | headwind (hedwɪnd ) also head-wind Word forms: headwinds countable noun A headwind is a wind which blows in the opposite direction to the one in which you are moving. Those headwinds do not look like easing any time soon. Collocations: stiff headwind Underpowered, perilously fragile, it would go backwards in a stiff headwind and be blown off the runway in a storm. Times, Sunday Times Mired in a 'liquidity trap', the real sides of crisis-torn economies are facing stiff headwinds for years to come. Times, Sunday Times Many of these ideas will meet stiff headwinds from the university teaching establishment in the ten-week consultation period now beginning, but they address glaring inadequacies. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately, that coincided with stiff headwinds in some of its main markets, as yesterday's third-quarter numbers show. Times, Sunday Times Investors in offshore wind farms in this country are battling against an increasingly strong headwind. Times, Sunday Times There was rain at the top of the mountain passes, plus thick fog and a strong headwind in the valleys. Times,Sunday Times This will be complicated by a strong headwind in the home straight. Times, Sunday Times Billions and billions of molecules need to come together correctly to make even a simple prokaryote, against a strong headwind from entropy. Times, Sunday Times My fancy made some rare hurdling errors and ran into a strong headwind in the straight there. The Sun |
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