He walked with a
drag.
他拖着脚走路。
Time seems to
drag.
时间过得很慢。
I
dragged the chair over to the window.
我把椅子拖到了窗口那边。
Having to work late every day is a
drag.
每天都得晚下班可真讨厌。
The vessel is also equipped with a world-leading air drag reduction system.
该船还配备了世界领先的空气减阻系统。
When the air drag reduction system is operational, a huge ship filled with more than 16,000 TEUs will be lifted by the air membrane like a hovercraft to minimize the resistance of seawater to the vessel, which is also key to its excellent environmental performance.
当空气减阻系统投入运行时，一艘满载16000多个标准箱的巨轮将像气垫船一样被空气膜吊起，以最大限度地减少海水对船只的阻力，这也是其卓越环保性能的关键。
Erke, a troubled domestic sports and lifestyle brand, probably never imagined that a donation to a flood-ravaged city would spark patriotic fervor and a craze for domestic sportswear that would drag it out of the financial doldrums.
埃尔克，一个陷入困境的国内体育和生活方式品牌，可能从未想过向一个遭受洪水蹂躏的城市捐款会激发爱国热情和对国内运动服的狂热，从而将其从金融低迷中拖出来。
Conglomerate sells stakes of over 10 billion yuan in biz to free up liquidityReal estate, once the cash cow that built China Evergrande Group, is becoming a drag on its development, the group's interim report showed.
Boeing also must pay to store the planes, creating a heavier drag on the company's finances.
More than 600 shops will shut by next year in the four districts, a gloomy prospect that could drag retail rental charges down by as much as 30 percent, back to a level only seen a decade ago, according to the latest forecast from real estate agency Midland IC&I.
Rengifo’s concerns on the drag of student loan debt on consumers are shared by Saah, but Saah downplays that threat because the main lender is the federal government.
Online discounter's robust business model gains support from investorsThe initial success of Chinese online discounter Pinduoduo Inc's Nasdaq debut suggested Wall Street's vote of confidence in its social-commerce business model, but the 3-year-old firm needs to watch out for issues ranging from counterfeits to portfolio limits that could drag on profitability in the long run, analysts said.
Steven Zhu, an analyst with market research firm Pacific Epoch, said that while the deal could put a drag on margins, there are a lot of synergies Alibaba can leverage, especially with its indigenous dining review service Koubei.
Steven Zhu, an analyst with market research firm Pacific Epoch, said that while the deal could create a drag on margins, there are a lot of synergies Alibaba can leverage, especially with its indigenous dining review service Koubei.
Exports are also likely to pick up amid improving global demand for electronics and technology products, Wang said, adding that the weak property sector's drag on the economy may narrow as real estate development investment may stabilize and pick up in the second half of the year.
Looking to the future, despite the likelihood of the property slump continuing to be a drag on the economy, analysts said that China's economy is likely to perform better in 2024 with a gradual recovery in domestic demand and consumption and an improvement in external financial conditions.
The economic drag from the property sector doldrums is expected to ease in 2024.
Citing the latest economic data, Zhou Maohua, a researcher at China Everbright Bank, said the recovery in consumption is slower than supply, and private investment continues to drag down the economy, pointing to the lack of effective demand.
It said that supported by policy measures to sustain consumption, industry and the housing market, China's growth picked up to a faster-than-expected 4.9 percent in the third quarter, bringing growth for the first nine months of 2023 to 5.2 percent, up from 3 percent for all of 2022, despite the drag from the property market correction.
A multi-year decline in demand will drag down the economy's potential output.
Despite the drag from slowing demand in major economies such as Europe and the United States, Wang said that China's foreign trade structure will continue to be optimized and upgraded in the fourth quarter.
Although the growth in new orders for services in November remained modest, it recorded the highest level since September, which surveyed businesses attributed to improved market fundamentals, the report said, adding that insufficient clients, however, would still put a drag on its overall growth.
Despite the improvement in some key indicators, she said the drag from the property sector intensified in October, estimating that the weakness in housing sales, starts and investments may remain through 2024, given the property correction process.
Despite the improvement in some key indicators, she said the drag from the property sector intensified in October, estimating that the weakness in housing salesand investments may stay through 2024, given the property correction process.
Though the increased downward pressure on the global economy and rising geopolitical tensions are still a drag on China's export activities, the export structure has been improving due to the country's ongoing efforts to upgrade its manufacturing sector, experts said.
Gong said it is sensible for China to further ease property market administrative restrictions in first-tier cities and reduce benchmark interest rates, which will lessen financing costs for enterprises — a drag on industrial profits and investment returns — and thus boost their willingness to expand investment and employment.
"The property sector has been a pillar of China's economy, but it has been a drag on the nation's economic recovery.
Analysts say the property sector, a pillar of the country's economy that has been a drag on economic recovery, will also embrace a notable recovery over the rest of the year, thanks to government support.
Zhong said September's PMI indicates that the drag from external demand has eased, policy pushes for infrastructure and real estate construction have promoted a recovery in related industries, and the mitigated debt burden of households is boosting the sectors of consumer goods and services.
Difficulties in China,meanwhile, may drag down global growth the longer they fester.
"There may be a significant further drag in the pipeline," Powell said on Aug 25, a reason to hold off on further hikes and study how the economy evolves.
"Gauged by short-term indicators, the recovery of China's domestic demand in recent months slowed down from the first quarter as insufficient market demand and tepid endogenous impetus remained a drag on growth.
Gauged by short-term indicators, the recovery of China's domestic demand in recent months slowed down from the first quarter as insufficient market demand and tepid endogenous impetus remained a drag on growth.
"With consumption recovering and the drag from falling construction activity easing, domestic demand growth will pick up in 2023," said Fitch Ratings.
With consumption recovering and the drag from falling construction activity easing, domestic demand growth will pick up in 2023," said Fitch Ratings.
Shrinking external demand will be a major drag on China's foreign trade for some time, Zhou said.
"According to the Caixin report, the subindex for output came in only slightly above 50, and domestic demand became a main drag, with the subindex for total new orders falling back into contraction.
The rapid recovery of household consumption and the high growth of infrastructure investment in the first quarter are the main driving forces for the economic recovery in the first quarter, Feng said, adding that resilient manufacturing investment and the diminishing drag effect of real estate investment have all boosted the economic growth.
Zhou Maohua, a macroeconomic analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the auto sector, which posted a 41.7 percent decline in profits according to NBS data, was a notable drag on manufacturing profits, due to such factors as dampening demand, rising production costs, subsidy phase-outs and price competition.
Due to changes in the external environment, less buoyant exports may drag on economic growth in 2023.
Wang said that while exports may be a drag on China's 2023 outlook, given softening global demand conditions and a gloomy global outlook, domestic demand — including both consumption and investment — will be key drivers propelling China's growth.
Loo said that exports will also continue to be a major drag on the outlook for 2023, given the softening global demand conditions, an eventual run-down inventories across key advanced economies and the ongoing global manufacturing and semiconductor downcycles.
The two economists have viewed "the more rapid pace of China's reopening along with a waning drag from global financial conditions and lower European gas prices" as good news for the world.
Even though weak performance in the real estate sector weighed on the economy in 2022, Kang said there are favorable conditions for the property sector to gradually stabilize, and it will not become a major drag on the economy as seen in the previous year.
NBS data showed that real estate development investment dropped 10 percent year-on-year last year, widening from a 9.8 percent decline in the first 11 months of the year and remaining a key drag on growth.
"I expect property activity to come down very substantially during the coming decades; that's going to be a long-lasting drag.
"I expect property activity to come down very substantially in coming decades; that's going to be a long-lasting drag.
This should stabilize the real estate sector in 2023 and reduce its drag effect on the economy.
That real estate investment fails to achieve positive growth may be the biggest "gray rhino" next year, which will further drag down the rebound of fixed asset investment and the upward potential of GDP growth.
However, they warned of troubles in the real estate sector, as well as strong external headwinds being a drag on the economy, and underlined that improving expectations and boosting market confidence will hold the key to economic recovery next year.
Since the existing infrastructure gap acts as a drag on Africa's economic growth, the continent is in urgent need of upgrading its infrastructure through cooperation.
"The issues on the property sector in China are also a source of drag on growth right now but on the positive side, we see the government being very proactive and taking a number of fiscal and monetary policy measures to steady the situation, which will lay the basis for a resilient and sustainable economic foothold," said Parvez.
Zheng Houcheng, director of the Yingda Securities Research Institute, said if the US continues to increase interest rates progressively, demand and output will both likely decline in the country, leading the economy into a recession, which could drag down the global economic recovery.
The soft infrastructure of the BRI sets the foundation for the digital economy, which is where real economic growth will come from in the post-pandemic era, Guppy said, because it removes the drag of intermediaries in the trade transaction process.
While various challenges and uncertainties drag down the world economy, China, responsible for one-third of global economic growth, is expected to provide the propulsion the world urgently needs, experts have said.
In addition, a downward trend in the real estate sector will also drag down consumption.
The real estate sector has continued to drag on growth, as people's homebuying willingness weakens.
Specifically, domestic COVID-19 cases and measures to control the virus have weighed on services in fields including catering, tourism, transportation, culture and entertainment, which may be a drag on the recovery of consumption and economic stability, Wang added.
- China's anti-pandemic approach of clearing COVID-19 infections in a timely manner has limited drag on the economy, Bloomberg said Tuesday, citing a report by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, which referred to the approach as a "COVID-zero" policy.
Although the policy has "dampened retail sales growth," that drag on economic activities is "limited to local communities rather than the entire nation," Bloomberg said, quoting the report.
Second, the cancellation of US financial subsidies, coupled with the tightening of its monetary policy and the weakening growth of commodity consumption, may drag down China's exports.
The need to replenish inventory in the United States will keep imports strong even as domestic demand transitions back to services," the economists said, adding more volatile growth in exports will result in trade being a drag on US economic growth in each quarter of the year.
Some analysts estimate that if the shortages of coal and power supplies are not addressed properly, they could hurt China's industrial production and drag down the overall economic growth.
Fu said that power curbs in some areas have impeded industrial production, though the impact will ease amid policy measures to boost power and coal supplies, while a slowing property sector has had a limited drag on the economy.
Analysts at Industrial Securities also deemed the drop in the pork price may drag down the rise in the CPI.
In the second half, we should speed up fiscal expenditure, especially to stabilize the growth rate of infrastructure investment and avoid infrastructure investment becoming a drag on economic growth.
Share of the manufacturing sector in GDP has fallen to 26 percent last year, compared with 27 percent in 2019, a trend that could drag down China's potential growth rate.
Coca-Cola said it still expects to see growth in the Chinese market this year, even as the closures of restaurants, bars in large part of the world were set to drag down its global sales volume.
This is part of Washington's efforts to decouple from and restrict China in the new energy vehicle and related supply chains, and will likely drag down the speed of the United States' own energy transformation, they added.
They also called for more supportive measures to revitalize the sluggish real estate market, which has been a drag on the Chinese economy.
Meanwhile, Zhang said it will take some time for the real estate sector to fully recover from the previous downturn, which to some extent may be a drag on overall steel demand.
"As the Chinese economy faces the triple pressure of demand contraction, supply shocks and weakening expectations, it is critically important to restore market confidence and reverse the downturn in real estate development investment, so that the real estate industry won't drag down economic growth momentum," he added.
"A slow recovery in the tourism sector has put a drag on the economy given its large contribution, accounting for around 11 percent of GDP and 10 percent of national employment in 2019," China-based Fitch Ratings analysts Flora Zhu and Jenny Huang said in a note.
One drag on the demand for some travel related to winter sports may be the small number of new cases of COVID-19 that have popped up sporadically in some regions.
Products that failed to catch up with the Christmas season would become an excess inventory of overseas clients, which may drag down their demand next year.
Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Affairs Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, recently said that a notable decline of manufacturing business in China's GDP will not only drag down the current economic growth and affect urban employment, but will also generate potential industrial safety hazards and weaken the country's anti-risk capabilities and international competitiveness.
A notable decline of manufacturing business in China's GDP will not only drag down the current economic growth and affect urban employment, but will also generate potential industrial safety hazards, and weaken the country's anti-risk capabilities and international competitiveness, Miao added.
The research showed that while volume growth remained steady at the same 2 percent level of 2019, the major drag on sales was the decline in average selling prices, which dropped by an average 2.1 percent in the first three quarters.
"The drag on infrastructure construction during the flood season in South China is fading, and financial instruments such as special Treasury bonds are being allocated continuously for use.
In the short term, this is a temporary drag, mainly associated with financial pressure, but is likely to recover as personal financial circumstances improve.
But slow logistics have acted as a drag on online sales due to a shortage in the delivery workforce, Gong said.
Fitch expects housing construction growth to slow, particularly in lower-tier cities, which will be a drag on FAI growth into the sector on a yearly basis.
"Due to recent drops in prices of bulk commodities and other factors, indices for purchasing prices of major raw materials and for ex-work goods shrank to the lowest this year," said NBS senior statistician Zhao Qinghe, citing price slides as a major drag to the PMI reading.
At the event, Chery showcased cutting-edge technologies of the L4 level autonomous robotaxi, the Lion AI model for vehicles, metaverse and an ultra-low drag concept car.
With the dual-mode active lifting tail wing, the drag coefficient can be reduced to as low as 0.24.
The e-tron GT has a very sporty design, with an air drag co-efficient of 0.24.
Featuring a sporty design that cuts its air drag coefficient to 0.197, the model can finish the zero to 100 km/hour sprint in 4.9 seconds.
It has muscular lines, a segment-leading air drag coefficient of 0.38 and seven driving modes for different terrains.
The elaborately designed body has an air drag coefficient of 0.22, which is also in the same league as supercars.
The sporty design has cut its air drag coefficient to 0.22.
Thanks to its new sporty design, the model has an air drag coefficient of 0.217, which has enabled the sedan to run for 630 kilometers on one charge.
The coupe-like styling and the arch-shaped design achieve an aerodynamic drag coefficient as low as 0.22.
Even some outperforming joint ventures have reduced production since June due to tighter chip supplies, which is likely to drag down their sales and profitability in the second half this year, said Fitch.
It takes away a big profit drag and keeps them strategically well-positioned for when they want to move parts of their network to be autonomous," he said.
One of the biggest barriers the new energy vehicle sector now faces is the drag on building recharge infrastructure.
Falling auto sales will continue to exert a considerable drag on the growth of the country's total retail sales in March, a report from Citic Securities said Tuesday.
Rising aluminum prices spurred by Trump's tariffs are driving up costs on the Ford's F-series, while rising steel and aluminum prices drag on GM results.
The electric vehicle subsidy cut continued to drag down its net profit in the first quarter of this year by 83 percent year-on-year.
If tariffs are cut, more imported vehicles will enter the Chinese market at a lower price range and possibly drag down the prices of domestically made vehicles.
The automaker has been boosting incentives to find buyers in the United States, a major drag on profitability in its largest market.
"Low utilization might continue to drag down the joint venture's performance in the near term," said Patrick Yuan, an automotive sector analyst at investment bank Jef eries Hong Kong.
Nissan has been expanding its US fleet business as some dealers criticize its use of retailer incentive programs and rising discounts, both of which create a drag on earnings.
The range is the result of its lightweight body, low air drag and more efficient battery pack, according to its Chairman & CEO Wellen Sham, a Chinese American born in Hong Kong.
[Photo/VCG]General Motors Co said a glut of used cars will return to market after their leases expire and drag on its finance unit this year, following similar warnings by peer Ford Motor Co and lenders such as Ally Financial Inc.