make a dent in

make a dent in

• • 少量减少(或削弱)
  • [口语]取得成功的第一步，取得有效(或初步)进展
  • 产生(或留下)印象，引起注意

• aeronautical en-route information service
• mode shift
• unipotential cathode
• organics
• kashas
• picnic hams
• Newton's theory of light
• nlaas
• concentrated employment program
• gill slit
• memoranda
• copulas
• iron losses
• pleasedness
• Rotarianism
• monogamy
• loaners
• lay the bridle on the neck of
• reabsorb
• oophoromalacia
• ask for one's cards
• be getting on
• carbon-sulfur lyase
• Swampscott
• block stream
• square meals
• sausagelike
• finback
• to death
• inhospitality
• banker's card
• flesh out
• curtseys
• stored-program numerical control
• foursquarely
• pipy
• Bush, George (Herbert Walker)
• put your head / neck on the block
• headlining
• Copht
• double density
• here / there sb goes again
• -i-
• cram school
• absolute value computer
• tableclothed
• gaggers
• rubber boots
• give sb enough rope to hang themselves
• violarite
• march past
• poison elder
• strongylid
• outrunning
• thiomersals
• Bekaa
• tuliplike
• X-ray astronomer
• sociocentricity
• have
• see sb around
• fitting-shop
• soft-liner
• naval
• dysproteinemic
• Androscoggin
• salt-water wedge
• strip to the waist
• fiancee
• lead sb a (merry) dance
• 6-aminohexanoic acid
• time-shared
• protoform
• with your nose in the air
• time bill
• Olga
• Con Ed
• ore district
• indicator
• heavy-duties
• cyprians
• Navy Exchange
• back-and-forth method
• Seabee
• slammer
• armature reaction
• optical bench
• chromaticisms
• mixed-flow impeller
• onlooking
• closed primaries
• stinking cedars
• axoplasm
• chalcocite
• take the consequences
• war game
• upon sight
• mortlings
• a twinge of guilt / envy / sadness / jealousy etc
• boardmanship