break through (sth.)中等

Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

配额制能促成行动：雷丁认为，它们“为平等开辟道路，并打破玻璃天花板”，这一效果已在法国以及其他对女性担任企业高层职位有法律约束性规定的国家中得到体现。

When women do break through to the summit of corporate power — as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook — they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.

当女性真的突破重围登上企业权力的顶峰时——例如谢丽尔·桑德伯格最近在脸书所做的那样——她们会引起广泛关注，恰恰是因为她们仍然是常规中的例外。