He spoke with a Beijing accent.
他说话带北京口音。
He had an unidentifiable accent.
他的口音难以识别。
He had developed a slight southern accent.
他有了一点南方口音。
The 325 guestrooms and suites incorporate contemporary design with modern grays and warm beige tones as well as highlighted accents of modern art influenced by Northwest China's Qinghai province.
As China shifts its energy mix accent from traditional energy to gas and other renewables, Total is actively expanding its natural gas, renewables and energy storage businesses here, he said.
ChaCha Food sows overseas success with Thai plant, and accent on healthy snacksChinese snacks are becoming popular among consumers outside the mainland, and ChaCha Food Co Ltd, a Chinese producer of roasted seeds and nuts, is all set to benefit from the trend, particularly in the United States and Indonesia.
"I can say that when I was serving as the president (from 2015 to 2017), I had a mere two hours or less to manage my own company every day," said Ngu, speaking in fluent Mandarin, though with a trace of Minnan accent, similar to those from Fujian province.
Matthew Rice, after being similarly misunderstood while trying to hold a conversation, has developed a tool that he hopes will help non-native speakers get to grips with Mandarin’s tones and accents.
For Mandarin learners, achieving accurate tonal variation and accents can be a great challenge compounded by the fact that people often struggle to hear their own mistakes, so they go uncorrected.
Rice, with three fellow students from Imperial College London – Gao Yang, Willa Crolius, and Dougie Mann – has designed what the teams believes is the first language learning tool that explains pronunciation as a simple physical form, allowing users to explore their accent with their hands.
Rice said users can actively self-correct their accent by physically comparing the two block shapes, feeling and hearing themselves relative to the ideal tone.
But he does apologize at the first opportunity for speaking English "with a French accent".
Also known by his Chinese name Jin Fei, he is always called Old Jin by others, and speaks fluent Chinese with slight Zhejiang accent.
Experts and business leaders have hailed the Chinese government's new guideline on building an economic system with accent on green, low-carbon and circular development.
As China won its first gold medal in the 2,000-meter short track speedskating mixed relay on Saturday, Wang's commentary, full of her signature straightforward wit delivered with a strong Northeast Chinese accent, wowed many netizens and created a major buzz on the internet.
"An increasing number of domestic instant noodles makers are innovating their products and banking on original flavors with an accent on health and taste to win back pickier consumers, as they are now presented with various choices from food deliveries," Meng Suhe, head of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, said at a recent industry forum.
Seven mega plants charge China's plans to emerge as world's biggest sea-based energy marketChina's offshore wind energy sector is expected to boom this year onward on the back of a maturing onshore segment, and the country's accent on growth via high-quality manufacturing and consumption upgrade.
Preserved roses, which are natural flowers that have been painted and treated to serve as home decorative accents, are also in high demand.
And we have what people call a 'neutral accent', which makes it easier for people to pick up and practice the language.
And 90 percent are well-educated women pursuing a lifestyle that has accent on quality products and services.
[Photo provided to China Daily]BMW pulled the covers of the new special-edition version of the BMW i8, on which yellow shares its canvas with accents in Frozen Grey Metallic, on Wednesday, the first media day during the on-going Shanghai international auto show.
Besides camera design tailor-made for African consumers, Transsion is also developing its artificial intelligence voice project to better adapt to local accents and using algorithms to reduce background noise, according to the company's mid-term report of 2021.
The sudden popularity of products sold in the so-called blind box segment and the fashionable milk tea beverage brands shows the Gen Z's novel consumption attitude that lays accent on following trends and flaunting one's individuality.
Damo Academy, Alibaba's in-house technology research arm, has developed a more efficient speech algorithm model so that it can not only "capture" live content in a rather noisy environment, but "understand" the anchor's accent and "decide" which words to pick amid confusing contexts.
"Livestreaming has posed even stricter translation requirements and tackles issues of accents, noisy settings and new terminologies in the fast-changing retail environment," said Fan Kai, who is responsible for the technology.
"We now have teammates speaking with accents from everywhere in the country rather than just 'Dongbeihua' (Northeast China dialect) back then," Wu joked about the wider representation of winter sports talent at the national camp.