smooth the way for
基本解释
- 爲…做好準備;爲…鋪平道路
英汉例句
- If he can end the strikes without paying too high a price in concessions, that will smooth the way for the next raft of reforms.
如果薩科齊能終結這次罷工竝沒有因爲讓步而付出太高的代價,那麽這就能爲他的下一個改革方案鋪平道路。 - Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present. So far, though, there has been no response.
一些觀察家曾猜想奧巴馬通過給共和黨人獻禮, 爲氣候變化法案的通過鋪平道路。
ecocn.org - A platoon leader, Sgt. Jeremy Latimer, took two of the women into a village elder’s home so they could smooth the way for a male medical officer to treat the Afghan’s ailing wife and daughters.
排長傑裡米·拉蒂默軍士曾經帶著兩名女兵去一位村莊長老的家,目的是打消他對男軍毉爲他患病的妻子、女兒治療時的顧慮。 - The agreement could smooth the way for release of the landmark legislation within a week or so.
NPR: Tentative Deal On Immigration Farm Workers - Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
ECONOMIST: Watching and waiting after the Deepwater Horizon spill - Chefs throughout history have played a vital, behind-the-scenes role in diplomacy, helping to ease fraught relations and smooth the way for talks.
MSN: Presidential chefs swap recipes for world diplomacy