They needed to make up ground on their competitors.
他们必须穷追猛赶竞争对手。
Shanghai plans to build a vast underground network of malls, restaurants, and parking lots to make up for a lack of space above ground, according to a recent government report.
根据最近的一份政府报告，上海计划建设一个由购物中心、餐厅和停车场组成的庞大地下网络，以弥补地面空间的不足。
That is bad news for any firm that may hope that smartwatches can make up ground for maturing smartphone and tablet markets.
对于那些希望智能手表能在日益成熟的智能手机和平板电脑市场上占据一席之地的公司来说，这是个坏消息。
The water drops that make up fog don't hit the ground.
构成雾的水滴不会落到地面上。
LG's focus on feature phones made it a weak player in the smartphone game, but the Korean electronics giant now wants to make up for lost ground in the super-phone category.
LG关注手机外观，令其在智能机领域相形见绌，但是如今这家韩国的电子设备巨头，很想在高端手机上收复失地。
There is little time for him to make up lost ground.
他收复失地的时间不多了。
For years, before environmentalism made it illegal, he ground up small whales and basking sharks to make the best bait. Sometimes he shot sharks to finish them off.
有好多年，他都会圈捕小鲸鱼和姥鲨来做最好的鱼饵，有时还会射杀鲨鱼，环保主义后来把这些行为定为违法行为。
Under PLT, the central bank has to make up this lost ground, so prices might rise faster than 2% to catch up.
通过价格水平定位的方式，央行必须夺回失地，因此价格的上涨可能会超过2%才能赶上。
In particular, when employment falls as much as it did from 2007 to 2009, you need a lot of job growth to make up the lost ground.
特别是，当就业情况出现2007年到2009年期间那样的下跌时，我们需要大幅度的就业增长以弥补失去的阵地。
Canonical service components, that is, services designed as services from the ground up, are not essential to make this scheme work.
要使这套模式发挥作用，那些正规的服务组件，即那些从底层设计出来的服务，并不是必需的。
Typically it involves drilling wells to pump steam into the ground to melt the bitumen and make it easier to suck up to the surface.
典型的工艺是先钻井，然后通过井眼将蒸汽泵入地下，油砂中的沥青被蒸汽熔化，这样便容易被抽吸至地面。
Theoretically, to make up the economic ground lost in less than a decade, the Greeks would need to devalue by 40 per cent.
从理论上讲，要想弥补过去不到十年时间内在经济上的损失，希腊大概需要货币贬值40%。
But Rasiej, for one, doubts that McCain has enough time to make up lost ground.
但拉西耶，作为其中一个，对于麦凯恩有足够时间弥补损失表示怀疑。
The common ground between the two is a strong belief in their ideas. Perseverance can make an average idea excel, but giving up halfway never makes a good idea happen.
两者共同之处在于他们都有一个坚定地信念，因为坚韧不拔的精神可以使一个平庸的想法变得不同凡响，而半途而废者从来都是一事无成。
Home prices in 20 big American cities, by contrast, fell farther and have struggled to make up ground (see chart).
相比之下，美国20个大城市的房价下跌尤甚，并一直力图追赶(见图表)。
In contrast, a central bank that targets the price level wants to make up any lost ground on prices. It would seek to raise inflation to 3% in the second year to get to a target of 104.
相比之下，把价格水平作为目标的中央银行为了弥补差额，在下一年它将力图把通胀率提高到3%以使价格水平达到104。
Tottenham Hotspur will be looking to make up ground on at least one of those two as they host Bolton Wanderers.
热刺希望至少追上以上两支球队中的一支，他们主场迎战博尔顿。
After a few minutes of laying on the ground I got up and got on my bike, hoping I could make it.
躺了几分钟后，我爬起来，骑回到我的自行车上，希冀可以搞定。
Arsenal resume their Premier League campaign against Sunderland on Sunday with plenty of ground to make up on their rivals for a top-four finish.
阿森纳将在本周日对阵桑德兰。这也是他们追赶英超四强脚步的大好机会。
Rather the experimenters ground up food pellets and then recompacted them to make them softer.
实验是这样的：把标准食物小球碾碎后重新捏成更软的小球，然后分别用两组小球喂老鼠。
Investors are keen to see new phones running Windows phone 7, Microsoft's attempt to make up lost ground in the mobile sector which will be in stores in the next few months.
投资者都渴望看到WindowsPhone7操作系统的手机，微软未来几个月试图弥补移动部门的股票下跌。
In China, there is an ancient saying: "Even a foot of cloth can be stitched up; even a kilo of millet can be ground. How can two blood brothers not make up?"
中国有一句古话，一尺布尚可缝,一斗粟尚可舂，同胞兄弟何不容？
The car wasn't very well-balanced during the middle part of the race when we knew it was important for Fisi to make up ground, and he was complaining of a lot of understeer.
在比赛的中段，他的赛车平衡性不是很好，当时我们知道对费斯来说，追上名次很重要，他对赛车的转向不足很是抱怨。
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up.
进行研究并总结我的企业职责；从新认识我的工作。
That would be disappointing with so much ground to make up - though unemployment would be falling, albeit slowly.
这将令人感到失望，因为有很大空间需要弥补——不过失业率将会下滑，尽管相当缓慢。
With so much ground still to make up, team principal Stefano Domenicali was just as keen as Montezemolo for Ferrari to keep up the good work.
还有许多地方需要提升，车队经理多梅尼卡利清楚地知道蒙特泽·莫罗的意图，将继续让法拉利达到更好的水平。
With so much ground still to make up, team principal Stefano Domenicali was just as keen as Montezemolo for Ferrari to keep up the good work.
还有许多地方需要提升，车队经理多梅尼卡利清楚地知道蒙特泽·莫罗的意图，将继续让法拉利达到更好的水平。
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