tailwind

noun

1. 顺风
   a wind that blows from behind a moving vehicle, a runner, etc.

1. N-COUNT (从行驶的交通工具后面吹来的)顺风
   A tailwind is a wind that is blowing from behind an aeroplane, boat, or other vehicle, making it move faster.
   1. A tailwind had cut the flying time by half an hour.
      由于顺风，飞行时间缩短了半小时。

1. A tailwind had cut the flying time by half an hour.
   由于顺风，飞行时间缩短了半小时。
2. So use this opportunity while you can, that tailwind of low interest rates, to accelerate your debt repayment so that youre not having to do so in a less favorable interest rate environment next year or the year after.
   所以在你还能够的时候利用这一时机，（搭上）这架低税率的顺风车来加速你的债务偿还，这样你就不必在明年或者后年，在相对不利的税率环境下去做这事了。
3. And if you take advantage of that tailwind by doing what you love, striving for perfection, constantly learning, believing in yourself as well as believing in others, you are bound to conquer the world.
   而且，如果你利用这种推动力并做你喜欢做的事，努力做到尽善尽美，不断学习，相信自己并相信他人，那么你必将征服世界。
4. Optimism isnt a life plan, but it is a great tailwind to have at your back.
   乐观不是生活计划，但它是你身后强大的推动力。
5. There is no need to fear the loss of this tailwind; India alone could add three times more people to its workforce than China will lose, and other countries such as Nigeria and Bangladesh are on a similar upswing.
   担心这种福利消失是没有必要的；仅印度一国的劳动力增加量，可能就三倍于中国的劳动力减少量，而尼日利亚和孟加拉国等国家也将出现类似的劳动力大幅增长。
6. Berkshire is always a buyer of both businesses and securities, and the disarray in markets gave us a tailwind in our purchases.
   伯克希尔通常购买整个生意或者证券，市场的紊乱给我们可以更加顺利地进行收购。
7. A closer look at the data, however, illustrates why the economy is less of a tailwind for Mr Obama than it was for the Gipper.
   但是仔细观察数据就会发现奥巴马执政期间经济不如里根顺利了。
8. Gold mining companies are benefiting from the tailwind of the gold price that is massively increasing their revenue and future cash flow.
   黄金矿业公司搭乘着金价上涨的顺风车，这显著增加了它们的营收和未来的现金流。
9. The markets have thrown systemic caution to the tailwind of improving manufacturing business surveys from China, the eurozone and the US.
   在中国、欧元区和美国的制造业商业调查都出现起色的推动下，市场把系统性的谨慎抛在脑后。
10. This has been a tailwind for technology companies and manufacturers, a bright spot in the otherwise slow economic recovery.
    要是没有这些亮点行业，美国经济的复苏将是缓慢艰难的。
11. In some developing countries, momentum behind pension and social security reform has flagged, despite the fact that demographics is turning into a headwind, rather than the tailwind it has been for some time.
    在一些发展中国家，尽管人口状况正在变成利空，而不是一段时间以来一直呈现出的利好，但养老和社保改革背后的动力已有所减弱。

noun

1. wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft