under way

基本解釋

If change is at last under way it is despite the embargo, not because of it.
即使改革最后是在貿(mào)易禁運(yùn)背景下起航，也不是因?yàn)橘Q(mào)易禁運(yùn)政策。
“That's already under way in some municipalities,” he said, “but we want to expand.
“在一些直轄市，這已在推行當(dāng)中，”他說道，“但我們還想能擴(kuò)展開來。”
The big changes represented by these computing shifts may not be complete by the end of this decade – but they will be well under way.
這些計(jì)算技術(shù)轉(zhuǎn)變帶來的重大變革可能在下個(gè)十年結(jié)束前無法完成——但它們將會(huì)已經(jīng)有了長足的進(jìn)展。

Viroj Na Ranong,an economist with the Thailand Development Research Institute, a policy research agency, fears that shift is under way.
I only started asking this in 1996 when the stock market boom was well under way, but already 69% of my respondents, who were high-income investors, strongly agreed.
996年時(shí)我才提出這種疑問,那時(shí)股票市場一片欣欣向榮,這些受訪者是高收入投資者,但69%的受訪者強(qiáng)烈認(rèn)同這點(diǎn)
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The Russian empire continues, though it continues under a very different way with what became the Soviet empire.
但俄帝國仍延續(xù)著,雖然是以一種,極其不同的方式,它成為了蘇維埃帝國
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And the Democratic Congress still tries to derail or slow down the antimissile programs already under way.
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If an activity is underway, it has already started. If an activity gets underway, it starts.