make progress

The crew made progress on the footbridge despite the cold rain.

尽管下着冷雨，施工队还是推进了人行桥的工程。

They're working on, they're grinding forward on some benchmark, on, on some criterion and things are getting a little bit better, but the systems are getting complicated and it's hard to make progress.

他们正在某个基准、某个标准上努力推进，情况在一点点变好，但系统变得越来越复杂，很难取得进展。