make no headway

基本解释

Where possible express yourselves now as one who is capable of Unconditional Love. If you can make headway in this manner, you will clearly have no difficulty in ascending.
再次，这些条件是一种文化的象征，既是很少或是不可能去赢得你真正的需求，但是你已经开始明白，改变你的生活方式是必须的了。
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The fact that the new paradigm doesn't claim to predict the future explains why it did not make any headway until now, but in light of the recent experience it can no longer be ignored.
新情况的发生并不能预测未来的解释了为何现在仍没有取得任何进展。而最近的经验表明，但是这一现象不能再继续被忽视。