We kept a large
herd of cattle.
我们饲养着一大群牛。
Eric preferred to stick with the
herd so as not to be noticed.
埃里克喜欢随大流以免引人注目。
Mary pushed her way through a
herd of lunchtime drinkers.
玛丽从一群午餐时饮酒的人中间挤了过去。
China, the world's largest consumer of pork, has had its hog herd devastated by an outbreak of African swine fever discovered more than a year ago.
Chinese milking cow herd size dropped rapidly from the peak of 12.16 million in 2005 to 10.38 million in 2018, pressuring dairy farms to operate more efficiently to increase their per-cow production volume.
Lu Ting, Nomura's chief China economist, said, "As sequential GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 was much faster than we had expected, and as China's population seems to be reaching herd immunity quickly following the reopening in early December, we are raising our 2023 annual GDP growth forecast to 5.3 percent from 4.8 percent.
"The peak of China's COVID-19"exit wave" has now passed and China's population is approaching herd immunity much more quickly than Nomura predicted in a previous outlook.
"Dairy exports fell in the month despite a slight rise in milk production in the 2019-2020 season, with dairy cow herd numbers relatively steady, he said.
"If successful in terms of reaching herd immunity which requires 70-80 percent of Americans vaccinated, the 'breadth thrust' of the market should continue to include those sectors most closely associated with consumer engagement," said Krosby.
As people become more mature travelers, they are increasingly reluctant to follow the herd.
By 2026, with the support of Yili Group, Ningxia aims to raise the region's dairy cow herd to 1.07 million, and increase raw milk output to 16,000 tons a year.
Data summaries on a big screen monitor at the farm include information on herd sizes, such as the number of dairy cows.
Confident in the future of the business, he is expanding his herd.
Hit by outbreaks of African swine fever, China's pig herd shrank notably in the past year, pushing up prices of pork and its alternatives.
Measures will be taken to ensure the country's pig herd rebounds by the end of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement, adding that hog production capacity should be restored to reach normal levels in 2021.
Speculations were rife over some listed companies that were perceived as lacking in growth prospects, indicating that herd mentality still prevails among some retail investors.
The presence of a humongous community of small investors in the stock market makes its structure prone to speculative trading as herd mentality rather than sound judgement drives sentiment.
Herd instinct is the human nature to follow the crowd and act collectively - and market expectation always does not change smoothly but tends to over-react to new information.
"With rich trading experience, foreign investors' joining has the function of cooling the market rise, because they will not follow the herd, said Zhan, the non-ferrous expert.
With the "counter cyclical factor," the new formula will be able to hedge against fluctuations in market sentiment and alleviate the herd behavior of investors, the CFETS said.
The CFETS said the new formula would allow dealers to incorporate a "counter cyclical factor" into the existing formula to "appropriately hedge against the pro-cyclical fluctuation in market sentiment and alleviate the potential for herd behavior in the forex market.
The move will "alleviate the potential for herd behavior in the forex market," according to a statement by the CFETS.
The adjustment aims to help ease the potential for "herd behavior" in the foreign exchange market, according to an online statement by the central bank last Friday.
The change in the method of setting the yuan's daily central parity rate against the dollar will better reflect the market supply and demand, lessen possible "herd effects" in the market and help guide the market to focus more on macroeconomic fundamentals, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System said.