if you make good time on a journey, you travel quickly, especially more quickly than you expected 〔旅途中〕快速行进〔尤指比预期要快〕
We made good time and were at the hotel by lunchtime.
我们路上很快,午饭时间就到酒店了。
Examples from the Corpus
make good time• But DeLatorre, leading the convoy, made better time than he expected.• We had made good time and had to easespeed to avoid closing the island in darkness.• I made good time back over the motorway.• They made good time thereafter, considering the darkness, encountering no problems.• The weather was not too promising, but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace.• Once we got on the freeway, we made good time.• After the ferryincident, we make good time.• I was no weight, we made good time.• We were making good time through the foothills.