The buoy marked the entrance to the harbor.
这个浮标标志着港口的入口。
Fishermen often tie their boats to a buoy when they're out at sea.
渔民在海上时常常把船系在浮标上。
The coast guard placed buoys along the shipping lane to guide ships safely.
海岸警卫队沿着航道放置了浮标，以引导船只安全行驶。
The researchers used buoys equipped with sensors to monitor ocean currents.
研究人员使用装有传感器的浮标来监测海洋洋流。
The sailor spotted a red and white buoy indicating shallow waters ahead.
水手发现了一个红白相间的浮标，表明前方有浅水区。
The lifebuoy was quickly thrown into the water to help the struggling swimmer.
救生圈被迅速扔进水中，以帮助挣扎的游泳者。
Waves crashed against the buoy, causing it to swing back and forth.
波浪冲击着浮标，使它来回摆动。
A network of buoys collects data on temperature, salinity, and wave height in the open ocean.
一系列浮标网络收集公海中的温度、盐度和波高数据。
The old, rusted buoy had become a popular spot for seagulls to rest.
那个旧的、生锈的浮标成了海鸥们休息的热门地点。
Marine biologists attached acoustic transmitters to buoys to track the movements of whales.
海洋生物学家将声学发射器附在浮标上，以追踪鲸鱼的活动。
That is of long-term significance in strengthening the nation's technological prowess in strategically important industries such as chip-making, biotechnology and quantum computing, as well as in helping further buoy the nation's sprawling industrial economy.
这对于加强国家在芯片制造、生物技术和量子计算等具有重要战略意义的行业的技术实力，以及帮助进一步支撑国家庞大的工业经济具有长期意义。
Over 90 percent of enterprises in China are SMEs, and the favorable policies applied to "little giant "companies should be gradually expanded to other SMEs so as to better buoy industrial growth, he added.
他补充道，中国90%以上的企业是中小企业，对“小巨人”企业的优惠政策应逐步扩大到其他中小企业，以更好地促进工业增长。
Strong demand for navigation chips came from sectors such as unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent agriculture, surveying and mapping, and the Internet of Things, buoying the brisk expansion of the company's chip business, according to the statement.
声明称，对导航芯片的强劲需求来自无人机、智能农业、测绘和物联网等行业，推动了该公司芯片业务的蓬勃发展。
In early 2019, Flexport was reportedly in talks with Softbank to raise $500 million, which would buoy its market cap to $4 billion.
据报道，2019年初，Flexport正在与软银谈判筹集5亿美元，这将使其市值增至40亿美元。
"While market demand has been slower to recover than anticipated, our record cargo performance has continued to buoy the business," said Adam Boukadida, chief financial officer of Etihad Airways.
“虽然市场需求的恢复比预期的要慢，但我们货运业务的持续强劲表现支撑了公司的发展。”阿提哈德航空公司首席财务官Adam Boukadida表示。
Price cuts could effectively buoy sales, but it could push a property developer's profit margin to its limits as well, Yan added.
Share price of liquor maker slips but consumption upgrades to buoy future prospectsKweichow Moutai Co Ltd, China's signature high-end spirit maker, reported slower profit growth in the third quarter, as lower deliveries and an overall market slowdown had dampened growth.
It will buoy consumer spending to about $1.4 trillion in 2020 and increase intra-Africa trade by as much as $35 billion per year, or 52 percent above the baseline, by 2022, UNECA says.
The Chinese contractors will also install five single point mooring systems, a catenary anchor leg mooring buoy weighing 240 tons and pipeline end manifold carrying a total weight of 220 tons for a shuttle tanker that imports crude for the refinery.
China will make a greater contribution to addressing global challenges and buoying the world's economic recovery, as the country injects new vitality into pursuing high-quality development and deeper opening-up, international organizations, company executives and scientists said.
Global business leaders praise country's steps to foster innovation, technologiesChina's efforts to pursue self-reliance in crucial technologies will create opportunities for multinationals to thrive along with their Chinese counterparts, as a more innovative China can help buoy global economic recovery, stabilize supply chains and spur innovation, experts and global business leaders said.
"A good start in the first quarter will greatly buoy confidence in economic development throughout the year," Chen added.
While the global growth outlook is clouded by uncertainty in 2023, economists and experts are upbeat about the prospects for China, expecting stronger policy support and domestic demand to buoy a steady recovery of the world's second largest economy.
Zhao Ping, vice-president of the Academy of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said the advantages of China's complete industrial chains will be further unleashed to bolster the competitiveness of its foreign trade enterprises as the epidemic eases, and carefully designed policies are now in place to buoy the economy.
The China International Capital Corporation, a joint-venture investment bank, believes that some of these pro-growth policies are stronger than those in 2020 and given effective COVID-19 control, will help buoy recovery in the second half of the year.
"Given China's determination to push forward reforms as well as its flexibility in policy, the Chinese economy is buoying confidence in the global recovery and will bring more development opportunities to other economies.
This is expected to further buoy profit growth, he said.
The recovery in consumption demand, together with the growing global recovery that will buoy China's exports, are expected to help China's economy return to pre-pandemic growth trends in the second half, when quarter-on-quarter annualized GDP growth may stabilize to between 5.5 percent and 6 percent, Zhu said.
As cyclical impacts wrap up, the subindexes of the PMI, including manufacturing, services and construction industry activity, are all expected to pick up in March, further buoying the headline index.
As the economy continues to recover and buoy production activity, the growth in the producer price index is expected to further accelerate, Tang said.
Recovery in demand both at home and abroad bolstered the growth in factory activity and has since replaced the work resumption efforts to buoy output, experts said.
While some economists expect demand for pandemic-related goods to wane in the coming months, Zhou said she believes the rebound in global demand will continue to buoy China's exports.
Experts said a supply surplus in the lithium carbonate industry drove down prices of raw materials, benefiting battery makers and buoying the EV sector.
This dynamic industry is characterized by innovation and improved efficiency, which have helped buoy global industrial chains and promote economic growth.
Funding in focus to ensure digital tech bolsters firms of all sizes, real economyFinance is instrumental in accelerating China's industrial upgrade, which will buoy the country's sprawling industrial economy amid challenges, company executives and experts said.
China aims to boost its aggregate computing power by more than 30 percent by 2025, in a plan to scale up digital infrastructure that is key to buoying the country's thriving digital economy and to inject new vitality into high-quality development of its sprawling industries.
The latest plan aims to increase the proportion to 35 percent by 2025, in order to better buoy the ongoing AI boom.
This, in turn, helped buoy demand for the precious metal.
Experts said recent policies are buoying up market sentiment and helping drive transactions for both new and pre-owned homes, which in turn supports the troubled real estate sector to recover and contributes to the overall economic rebound.
GPUs are the most sought-after chips in China, as they are the key products buoying the artificial intelligence boom triggered by ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that has taken the world by storm.
Property agents such as Wu have been very busy lately because policy measures, adopted to help the troubled real estate sector recover, are buoying up market sentiments and helping drive up transactions for both new and pre-owned homes, which in turn are contributing to the overall economic recovery, experts said.
This represents China's latest push to buoy the development of its nonferrous metals industry.
China has been striving to buoy the recovery of its sprawling industrial economy, which is picking up pace amid a steady rebound in domestic demand despite external uncertainties.
China's latest call for innovation in key technologies and crucial components will motivate companies to achieve breakthroughs in emerging sectors and buoy the country's high-quality economic development amid new opportunities and challenges, experts and company executives said.
As of the end of last year, the city had 1,400 buoy companies and 35,000 workers involved in the sector.
Jan-Feb industrial output 2.4 percent higher after 1.3 percent December riseThe recovery of China's sprawling industrial economy is expected to pick up pace this year, as more policies are in the pipeline to buoy manufacturing, and encouraging signs indicate enterprises' stronger willingness to invest, experts said.
China's booming e-commerce and fast-growing express delivery industry are also buoying sales of fresh-cut flowers.
In response, local governments and industries are rolling out festive activities, lively bazaars, and shopping coupons, in all-out efforts to buoy the long-awaited recovery from the COVID-19 doldrums.
Cheap to buy, simple to learn and useful in developing relationships with other kids, trading card games are enjoying increasing popularity among children and buoying numerous businesses.
China's oil and natural gas output hit a record high in the first seven months of 2022, helping to buoy economic development and meet people's living needs, the National Energy Administration said Thursday.
China has rolled out a raft of policies such as removing bottlenecks in transportation and reducing the burden for logistics enterprises to buoy the flows of logistics.
These developments are buoying the spirits of the developers, encouraging them to commit to not only higher investments but enhanced quality of their constructions and related services.
这些进展鼓舞了开发商的士气，鼓励他们不仅要投入更多的资金，还要提高建筑和相关服务的质量。
Experts expect construction related to key projects to buoy industry's prospectsDemand in China's steel market is likely to continue to rise in the coming months, which is expected to bolster sales of steel companies.
专家预计与关键项目相关的建设将提振行业的前景。未来几个月，中国钢铁市场的需求可能会继续上升，这有望提振钢铁公司的销售。
Policy support, COVID-19 prevention efforts buoy development of sectorChanges in the way healthcare is delivered during the COVID-19 outbreak, together with policies the Chinese government has taken, have combined to spur China's online healthcare system especially in chronic disease management, a recent report by iResearch Consulting Firm said.
疫情防控措施与政策支持助力行业发展：iResearch咨询公司最近的一份报告指出，COVID-19疫情期间医疗服务方式的变化，加之中国政府采取的各项政策，共同推动了中国在线医疗体系的发展，特别是在慢性病管理领域。
The government's effective measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 epidemic and the orderly resumption of business will continue to buoy demand in the long run, they said.
The comments came after the State Council rolled out a set of policies on Tuesday, including tax breaks and financing support, to buoy the growth of the integrated circuit and software sectors.
The oil sector recovery, supported by the efforts of OPEC and non-OPEC oil-producing nations to rebalance the market, has been an important contributor to further buoying global economic development.
The US Federal Reserve recently cut the interest rates by a quarter-percentage point to buoy the US economy amid a global slowdown and the continuing US-China trade dispute, the first time since 2008 when the subprime mortgage crisis threatened to torpedo the US economy.
Another factor buoying up the market are the raft of supporting policies for the cruise industry rolled out by a number of government departments in recent years.
Execs, experts underline high-techs' role in upgrading traditional industriesChina's latest efforts in advancing the development of the industrial internet will inject new vitality into the convergence of advanced manufacturing and digital technologies, and buoy the country's sprawling industrial economy amid challenges and uncertainties, experts and company executives said.
"The IC industry needs a gigantic market, and no single country can afford alone the heavy investment needed to buoy the sector, whether from the perspective of supply chains or (from the perspective of) market demand," Zhu said.
Introduced in late 2015 to buoy up weak market demand, the 50 percent discount on the usual 10 percent purchase tax on cars with engines no larger than 1.6 liters, one of the most popular segments in China, once worked like magic.
Introduced in late 2015 to buoy up weak market demand, the 50 percent discount on the usual 10 percent purchase tax on cars with engines no larger than 1.6 liters－one of the most popular segments in the country－once worked like magic.
Chinese telecom operators have invested more than 400 billion yuan ($59.4 billion) into 5G so far, driving a cumulative economic output of about 8.56 trillion yuan, which highlights the robust role that new network infrastructure plays in buoying economic growth, experts said.
专家表示，中国电信运营商已对5G投资超过4000亿元人民币（约合594亿美元），带动累计经济产出约8.56万亿元人民币，这突显了新型网络基础设施在提振经济增长中所发挥的强大作用。
Huawei is cooperating with the city of Suzhou in promoting artificial intelligence innovation, a move that industry experts said will nurture new regional powerhouses to buoy the local economy.
The Shanghai Composite Index touched a multi-year low on Monday, only to jump the following four days to close above the psychologically important 2,900-point level, at 2910.22 points, on Friday, buoying foreign capital inflow into Chinese equities.
Reforms are needed to create a better ecosystem to buoy market confidence, he said.
Shares may stabilize, unlocking listed firms' true value, boosting recoveryThe stock buyback and increased holding plans announced on Monday by some listed State-owned enterprises and industry giants will inject more confidence into the A-share market, buoying its performance, experts said on Tuesday.
Downtrend in key lending rates could hold; RRR cut remains feasible optionChina's benchmark rate for bank lending still has room to decline during the rest of the year as the central bank's latest open market operations signaled that an accommodative policy stance may continue to buoy economic recovery, experts said on Tuesday.
This is because a slowdown in the Fed's rate hikes can alleviate the recession risks of the US economy and therefore buoy demand for China's exports, while lessening the depreciation pressure on the renminbi by slowing capital flows to the US, Shao said.
The US people's assets have been thus diverting to the equities market, which also helps to buoy the long-term bullishness of the stock market, said Xun.
The inflow of northbound capital has also helped to buoy A-share market sentiment, said Luo of UBS.
This helped buoy the A-share travel sector in particular and the market in general.
Listed State-owned enterprises reported noticeable gains for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, further buoying the indexes, thanks to their large market cap.
Online marketplace Pinduoduo saw its first-quarter revenue rise 7 percent year-on-year, helping buoy its share price by nearly 10 percent.
- China is making agile use of monetary policy ammo to buoy the economy amid mounting uncertainties, said an official with the central bank, adding that the country is able to cope with the impact of other major economies' tightening moves.
Such rarely seen business media unanimity, which soon went viral on the internet, is interpreted by industry insiders as an attempt to buoy the falling A-share market.
More stabilizing policies and growth incentives should be introduced to buoy the A-share market.
China's series of plans for the development of the manufacturing and high-end chip-making sectors have also helped buoy investor sentiment, she said.
Chen Guo, chief strategist of Essence Securities, said China's economic upgrading and the rise of high-quality companies will buoy the peak performance of the A-share market in the long term.
Sufficient capital inflows will play a key role in buoying the sustained bullish performance of the A-share market in the midterm.
More importantly, foreign capital flowing into the Chinese bond market after the inclusion will buoy the renminbi exchange rate, she said.
Chen Xianshun, chief strategist at Guotai Junan Securities, said the global market rally will buoy the A-share market.
The recent fluctuations in the A-share market, mainly due to the less-than-stellar third-quarter results of large-cap companies, will not last long as the country's robust economic recovery will continue to buoy investment prospects, said experts.
These lingering uncertainties have determined that investors' risk-aversion should remain at a relatively high level through the year, buoying demand for low-risk bonds.
Liu Wenqiang, a researcher with Shenzhen-based Great Wall Securities, said another factor expected to buoy IPO activities this year is the securities regulator's continuous efforts to enrich financing channels in the capital markets to better serve the real economy.
Companies in some sectors including equipment manufacturing are now allowed to get refunds to buoy cash flow.
"Also, US Federal Reserve's retreat from previous plans for more rate hikes has helped ease the spread of short-term government bond yields between China and the United States, helping buoy the yuan," Yang said.
Meanwhile, the central government’s latest adjustments to the financial market have helped to buoy sectors such as securities firms and banks, said Zhang Qiyao, an analyst at Guosheng Securities.
"If the capital market reforms are properly pushed forward and thus buoy liquidity and performance of the A-share market, stock prices of securities firms will get a major boost this year," said Zhao Hongmei, deputy head of research at Hong Kong-based Zhongtai Financial International Ltd.
Yang Delong, chief economist at Shenzhen-based First Seafront Fund, added that as China's economic upgrade deepens over the next decade, the competitive landscapes of various industries will become more dominated by top players, whose profits will continuously grow and buoy the stock market.
"After last year's slump, the A-share market has basically stabilized, and policies buoying the market have been continuously introduced.
Recent data show foreign investors have been upbeat about A shares following a number of policy signals in November expected to buoy market sentiment, for instance, more policy support to help ease the financial pressure on private enterprises.
Zhang Xia, chief strategy analyst at China Merchants Securities Co, said measures to revive stock index futures trading could buoy investor sentiment and introduce a large amount of capital into the A-share market.
"The recent slump was mainly driven by weak investor sentiment closely related to pledged-share risks, so the risk-easing measures and regulators' determination to solve the problem could greatly buoy the market," said Xu Gao, chief economist with the Everbright Securities Asset Management Co Ltd. Share-pledging refers to shares being pledged as collateral for loans.
The renovation projects will also help catalyze effective investment, boost consumption and stabilize the property sector — key to buoying the real economy — in a bid to sustain the sound momentum of economic recovery and growth, they added.
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