Eric had to work on an
empty stomach.
埃里克不得不饿着肚子工作。
Mary's parting words left him feeling
empty and alone.
玛丽分手时说的话让他感觉空虚孤独。
Tony emptied his pockets of their contents.
托尼把衣袋中的东西全都掏出来了。
It has also been stepping up the implementation of CO2 injection technology to extract crude from aging oilfields, also known as enhanced oil recovery, using its numerous empty and mature oil and gas reservoirs to transform them into a carbon storage hub.
它还一直在加紧实施二氧化碳注入技术，从老化油田中提取原油，也称为提高采收率，利用其众多空的和成熟的油气藏将其转变为碳储存中心。
Initiated in June, this scheme promotes an app for better route planning and fewer empty runs along with other efficiency-enhancing services.
该计划于6月启动，旨在推广一款应用程序，以便更好地规划路线，减少空跑次数，以及其他提高效率的服务。
Domestic companies have also embarked on the green transition journey in recent years with overseas partners to step up the implementation of CO2 injection technology to extract crude from aging oil fields — also known as enhanced oil recovery — using their numerous empty and mature oil and gas reservoirs to transform them into a carbon storage hub, seeking to lead the efforts with their decarbonization moves.
近年来，国内公司也与海外合作伙伴一起踏上了绿色转型之旅，加紧实施二氧化碳注入技术，从老化油田中提取原油，也称为提高采收率，利用其众多空置和成熟的油气藏将其改造成碳储存中心，寻求通过他们的脱碳举措来领导这些努力。
"It was a hustle because power would be restored when we were sleeping, and sometimes we would sleep with an empty stomach because there was no money to buy firewood or LPG," she said.
她说：“这很匆忙，因为我们睡觉时会恢复供电，有时我们会空腹睡觉，因为没有钱买木柴或液化石油气。”。
For instance, both export empty pickups and laden gate-in figures recovered to above 65 percent of normal weekly volumes, and import laden pickups improved to between 80 percent and 90 percent last week.
例如，出口空载皮卡和满载门的数据都恢复到了正常每周销量的65%以上，上周进口满载皮卡的数据提高到了80%至90%之间。
The system can carry out one-to-one task-matching and reduces the empty traveling rate of vehicles.
"As more than 80 percent of container shipping companies believe the empty container shortage will endure for at least three more months, many of them are investing in building new capacity," said Zhou.
Headquartered in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, Manbang uses big data and artificial intelligence technologies to help drivers find commodities waiting to be shipped without worrying about a potential empty return trip.
"One of the benefits is we can share trucks to reduce empty milage. "
Recent projects include a partnership with Cardinal to develop a platform which makes earlier to build truck pools and reduce empty millage in China, a partnership with Shianco to use rice husks to make floor and furniture and a partnership with YuShuo to use retired batteries from EV trucks to build power storage systems for breweries.
Deer Jet said it also needed to take the round-trip costs into consideration, given that the plane flew empty from China to London.
The Tianjin Port Group has announced exempting storage fees of both empty containers and loaded containers from domestic and foreign trade companies at its shipping terminals from Feb 26 to March 6.
It's empty - but maybe it's the kind of empty of the future. "
Caterers point the finger at customers, saying they patronize food courts just to fill their empty stomachs rather than for any sort of culinary experience.
Kayford Holdings Ltd, the global exclusive manufacturer of the 2018 World Cup mascot, has a different reason for its empty warehouse.
"Chicago is attractive to professionals and empty nesters who have sold their homes," he said.
Last May, Cainiao announced an investment in 1 million new energy vehicles and linked them to a smart logistics platform, which can trim the rate at which its cars travel empty and reduce the driving distance.
When he steps out of home, his pocket is always empty, he said.
Manbang Group created by merger of major players in sharing economyChina's largest Uber-like freight service provider will step up its investment into artificial intelligence, as it scrambles to tap into the new technology to boost efficiency in matching empty trucks with loads.
They allow shippers to post load information on mobile applications and connect them with truck drivers, so as to reduce a truck's empty miles and waiting time between loads.
Peak demand is considered a major problem for the public-private partnership as its users often find empty bike-sharing stations in the neighborhood and no open docks to park in downtown during rush hours.
In May, Cainiao pledged investment in 1 million new-energy vehicles and linked them onto a smart logistics platform, which can trim the rate at which its cars travel empty and reduce the driving distance.
That's not an empty corporate boast.
But it had been empty until Wanda took control three years ago.
Using big data, Truck Alliance is able to help drivers to directly find commodities waiting to be shipped, without worrying about potential empty return trip.
At first glance, new industrialization sounds like one of those big, empty words that only policymakers and macroeconomists love to mouth.
Responding to a media query about the recent piling up of empty containers at Chinese ports, Yu said various factors contributed to the situation: the overproduction of new containers during previous periods; low storage costs at domestic ports; seasonal regularity effect; and the relatively quick return of containers from other places, due to the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions abroad.
The minister noted that a large number of empty containers are ready to move across Chinese ports, showing the international market remains positive about China's export capability in the next phase.
The number of containers for export has been rising since late February, Yu Jianhua, head of the General Administration of Customs (GAC), told a press conference, addressing recent reports of empty containers piled at Chinese ports that have sparked concerns over trade.
The official's remarks came in response to a media inquiry regarding the recent influx of empty shipping containers at Chinese ports.
The minister noted that the abundance of empty containers to a certain extent reflects the global market's continued confidence in China's export capacity for the next phase, he said.
That came against the background that many ports at home and abroad face sluggish container throughput with empty containers piling up.
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said that the Air Silk Road between the two countries is not an empty slogan, but instead one of the most visible and tangible pillars of bilateral cooperation.
An empty container transportation center began operations at the Shanghai port on Saturday.
Located in the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the empty container transportation center for Northeast Asia is key to the port's capability to allocate resources across the world, according to Gu Jinshan, chairman of Shanghai International Port Group, the sole operator of the public terminals at the Shanghai port.
"The new center will help us to apply digitalized and intelligent management to promote communications between ports and shipping enterprises, so as to provide empty container services for shipping operators as well as customers in Northeast Asia, along the Yangtze River Delta region, and areas along the Yangtze River," said Gu.
The launch of the center also means more empty containers will be allocated to the Yangtze River Delta region, the areas along the Yangtze River, and surrounding coastal ports via water routes, highways and railways, according to SIPG.
The Shanghai port saw the number of its imported empty containers grow 8.7 percent year-on-year during the January-August period.
Thanks to SIPG's efforts in promoting the flow back of empty containers, local and surrounding ports' container demand is well met.
The empty container transportation center for Northeast Asia will consolidate the Shanghai port's status as the top global container port with more diversified shipping services.
Also, focusing on creating "small groups", the IPEF's economic terms are empty and innately inadequate.
Whatever regional cooperation framework emerges, it should not use empty gimmicks to create "small circles" or an atmosphere of isolation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although the US has repeatedly reiterated that the economic framework is still in a draft and revision stage, much international public opinion has pointed out that multiple compromises have made the economic framework "empty" and its economic objectives not clear.
Global container capacity will be tighter as many containers remain empty on the return leg of their journeys after delivering cargo, which has been affecting container turnover efficiency.
High-quality development will be empty talk if growth rates cannot be secured.
Under coordinated government actions led by the Ministry of Transport, shipping giant COSCO Shipping transported 13,469 empty containers back to domestic ports in March, quenching the country's container thirst.
The slow return of empty containers also continued to plague the industry.
The problem is poor circulation of containers due to two main reasons: one, the more than two dozen busiest ports in the world are currently in a state of traffic congestion with long queues of ships, and empty containers cannot be transported back; two, the resurgence of COVID-19 has halted and affected economic and industrial activities in many countries and regions, according to information released by the Beijing-headquartered China Chamber of International Commerce.
"The global COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with a shortage of shipping capabilities and empty containers, has led to congestion of major ports worldwide," said Liu Jianping, director of Ningbo Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export, on Wednesday.
Foreign trade businesses have faced difficulties caused by the shortage of empty containers, the low efficiency of loading and uploading containers at some ports, and increasing prices for international shipments.
Now, foreign trade businesses are facing difficulties caused by the shortage of empty containers, the low efficiency of loading and uploading containers at some ports, and increasing prices for international shipments.
In June, the shortage of empty containers in China's major ports stood at 1.4 percent, down 12.2 percentage points from the beginning of the year, Sun said.
Owing to COVID-19, shipping companies have been enduring a situation where empty containers from many parts of the world are unable to come back to China.
The shortage of empty containers in China has eased as manufacturers have increased production capacity, vice-minister of transport Zhao Chongjiu said Thursday.
China's steady economic recovery has led to rapid increase in demand for containers in foreign trade transportation, Zhao said, adding that lower operating efficiency at overseas ports due to the epidemic makes it difficult to ship empty containers back to China.
"If there were cool things to buy, I would love to make full use of the tax-free quota at 100,000 yuan," said Zhao, a tourist in his 40s from Shanxi province, dragging an empty suitcase and shopping in a duty-free mall at the southern Chinese resort island of Hainan.
On Friday nights, Gu Mingming, a 30-year-old network engineer in Shanghai, typically takes out a bottle of uncooked rice, pours the rice into a rice cooker, then measures the amount of water needed to cook the rice using the now empty rice bottle.
The shelves are basically empty," said Meng Fanbo, a staff member at a gift shop in Harbin.
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said earlier that the Air Silk Road between the two countries is not an empty slogan.
She said the world seemed a bit empty without Chinese tourists and believes people all over Europe are thrilled to have them back.
The first C919 large passenger aircraft will start a 100-hour empty aircraft verification test flight on Monday, to verify and confirm the aircraft's safety in operation, reliability in repair and guarantee capability in flying, CCTV reported.
An empty container transportation center's Taicang branch, which is affiliated with the port of Shanghai, was put into use on May 7.
"PV station installation requires areas with vast available empty spaces and high average solar radiation, making arid areas far from cities ideal locations.
China has adopted multiple measures to cope with the container shortage amid the COVID-19 pandemic, such as shipping empty containers back to domestic ports, accelerating the production of containers and promoting digital transformation of ports for smooth flow of cargo.
Under coordinated government actions led by the Ministry of Transport, China's State-owned shipping giant COSCO shipped 13,469 empty containers back to domestic ports in March, quenching the country's container thirst.
With a total of 262 container shipping routes, throughput at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port surged 52.4 percent on a yearly basis to 2.35 million twenty-foot equivalent units in February, reaching a historic high, the company said, and its need for empty containers is high.
Shipping companies are working hard to increase their capacity by placing new container orders and bringing empty containers on their return journeys to China, Zhou said.
A COSCO Shipping vessel recently brought 17,000 containers back to Shanghai from Europe, 5,000 of them being empty.
COSCO Shipping tried its best to increase the amount of empty containers on its voyage back home, CCTV reported, citing Zhang Ning, deputy general manager with COSCO Shipping's container transport subsidiary.
By setting aside space for stacking empty containers, the port of Shanghai is striving to empty sufficient bulk bins for goods exports.
Currently, as many as 330,000 empty TEUs were available at the group's terminals.
In the meantime, favorable rates were offered to shipping enterprises at home and abroad to encourage the return of empty containers.
The number of empty containers returned to SIPG's terminals increased 18.9 percent in January compared to the previous month.
An empty container distribution center will be established by SIPG, whose role is to flexibly deploy resources and relieve the container shortage pressure on neighboring ports.
"We are going to develop the port of Shanghai into a regional empty container transit hub in Northeast Asia," said Zhou Yong, a management assistant with SIPG.
Professor Liu Chunsheng from Central University of Finance and Economics suggests that big data should be employed to scientifically distribute the shipping containers, and more should be done with the government's help to bring the empty containers back to China.
"For the latter, many gold jewelry manufacturers launched 3D-printed gold collections, which are lightweight (as most of them are hollow gold with an empty space inside) and are thus cheaper, but look as good as solid gold jewelry.
Thanks to the internet and other technologies, karaoke－which originated in Japan and literally means "empty orchestra" in Japanese－is no longer restricted to karaoke bars or booths.
But with China largely flattening the COVID curve since late March, the resort saw such a dramatic bounce-back in tourist numbers that an empty suite at a seemingly prohibitive price tag of 3,000 yuan ($439.5) per night became hard to get.
A number of Chinese carriers are now providing contagion-wary passengers the option of reserving nearby seats to ensure they remain empty for the duration of the flight.
The 3,000-square meter store he manages is nearly empty at this time.
Zhang Qiang, a partner at Roland Berger China, said having pets has become increasingly popular, especially among empty nesters and single people, groups that also are big buyers of high-end pet products and services.
"Currently, containers leave Mombasa with cargo and they go back empty.
“Truckers drive nearly 65 billion miles with an empty trailer each year.
If we can help the industry utilize those empty miles, we can unlock capacity that already exists but is currently being wasted,” McElroy told China Daily.
“A piece of land was empty, and next time I went, a hundred buildings have popped up.
For these "empty nest" couples, pets help them fight loneliness.
He said that even though some countries are rich and resourceful, they tend to make only empty promises and fail to use the results of science to improve people's lives.
"Wang Hua, an 80-year-old empty nester in Beijing, enters the bathroom, ready for a bath.
"The commercialization of digital humans won't just be empty talks when these technologies become fully matured in the near future.
Battery-swapping stations enable EVs to get their empty battery packs replaced with full ones in minutes, which is much faster than getting them charged.
Battery-swapping stations enable EVs to get their empty battery packs replaced with full ones in minutes, much faster than getting them charged.
Getting electric vehicles fully charged usually takes hours, but empty batteries can be swapped for full ones in just minutes.
Usually, it takes car owners less than five minutes to get their empty batteries swapped for new ones, said Nio.
Getting electric vehicles fully charged usually takes hours, while empty batteries can be swapped for full ones in just minutes.
Some dealers, she said, have sent her pictures of empty lots, so the inventory has to grow a little higher than it is today.
The technology enables Nio to sell vehicles without batteries, which they can rent and get empty ones swapped.
All of a sudden there was the outbreak of coronavirus, followed by lockdowns, empty showrooms and a nosedive in deliveries in February 2020.
The driver's seat is not exactly empty but occupied by safety staffer.
At BJEV's battery swap stations, vehicles can get their empty batteries replaced by fully-charged ones within 90 seconds.