Eric likes to inflate his achievement.
埃里克喜欢吹嘘他的成就。
Tom's life jacket had failed to inflate.
汤姆的救生衣未能充气膨胀。
Tony is
inflated with pride.
托尼趾高气扬。
She had to inflate the balloon for her son's birthday party.
她得为儿子的生日派对吹气球。
The economy is showing signs of inflation as prices continue to rise.
随着物价持续上涨，经济显示出通货膨胀的迹象。
He had to inflate the tire with a pump before heading out on the road.
他在上路前需要用打气筒给轮胎充气。
The chef inflate the dough to make it light and airy for the bread.
厨师将面团发酵，使其变得轻盈松软，适合做面包。
The company decided to inflate their product's price due to increased production costs.
由于生产成本增加，公司决定提高产品的价格。
The athlete took a deep breath to inflate his lungs before diving into the pool.
运动员在跳入泳池前深吸一口气，以充分扩张肺部。
The government needs to carefully monitor the inflation rate to stabilize the economy.
政府需要密切关注通货膨胀率，以稳定经济。
The scientist used a special machine to inflate the balloon with helium gas.
科学家使用特殊机器用氦气充填气球。
Inflating your life jacket is essential before entering the water during an emergency.
在紧急情况下入水前，给救生衣充气是至关重要的。
The artist
inflated a large plastic structure for an outdoor installation art exhibit.
艺术家为户外装置艺术展览充气了一个大型塑料结构。
Luckin Coffee Inc's net revenue was inflated by 2.12 billion yuan ($300.3 million) in 2019, the company said on its website on July 1.
7月1日，瑞幸咖啡在其官网表示，2019年公司净收入被夸大了22亿元人民币(约合3亿美元)。
The committee, which was formed on March 19, also found that the company's costs and expenses were inflated by 1.34 billion yuan in 2019 and the fabrication of transactions began in April 2019.
该委员会于3月19日成立，还发现该公司2019年的成本和支出被夸大了13.4亿元人民币，而伪造交易的行为始于2019年4月。
The administration's investigation, ongoing since this April, showed between April and December last year Luckin has falsely inflated key figures including revenue, costs and profit rates, through artificial support from third-party companies, according to a statement from the administration.
Luckin Coffee Inc's net revenue was inflated by 2.12 billion yuan ($300.3 million) in 2019, the company announced on Wednesday on its official website.
The committee, which was formed on March 19, has also found that the company's costs and expenses were inflated by 1.34 billion yuan in 2019 and the fabrication of transactions began in April 2019.
Luckin Coffee admitted on April 2 that its 2019 revenue was substantially inflated and triggered a sell-off of more than 70 percent of its shares.
The Nasdaq-listed Chinese coffee chain admitted on April 2 that its 2019 revenue was substantially inflated and triggered a sell-off of more than 80 percent of its shares, exposing its shareholders to huge losses.
Luckin Coffee Inc, the Chinese chain in deep crisis for fabricating sales data, disclosed on April 2 that its 2019 revenue was inflated by about 2.2 billion yuan ($310 million), thus admitting to short seller Muddy Water's earlier allegation.
Meanwhile, NYSE-listed tutoring service provider TAL Education Group reported inflated sales, albeit minor.
The Nasdaq-listed Chinese coffee chain saw its share price crash more than 75 percent to $6.40 on Thursday after the company disclosed that its earnings results were substantially inflated.
The company may have artificially inflated revenue to prove its high-growth prospects to investors, enable capital market refinancing and quick business expansion, said an investment banker who sought anonymity.
Certain costs and expenses were also substantially inflated by fabricated transactions during this period, the announcement said.
The most immediate cause of the 2008 financial crisis was the bursting of the US housing bubble inflated by banks’ reckless lending, sometimes without even requiring a down payment, in an overheated housing market.
On display here were power banks that can be rented after scanning the user's palm, windows that can automatically close when they detect a change in humidity before rain, and AI-powered garments that will inflate their gas bags before an elderly wearer falls to the ground.
As a result, the soft constraints on financial balances have fueled and inflated the bubble.
But, some industry sources said US carriers appear to believe route diversions from Russia make flights longer and inflate costs, hence seem a bit reluctant to add more direct flights, unlike their Chinese counterparts.
But on the other hand, a weakening yuan could inflate import costs, aggravate the pressure of imported inflation and narrow the room for monetary easing, said Zhang, who is also chief economist of PwC China.
Unstable external factors are also on the rise as geopolitical tensions have inflated global energy and food prices while monetary tightening by developed economies has tightened global liquidity conditions.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has inflated prices of energy and agricultural products in Europe and the Middle East, besides causing fluctuations in the exchange rate of the US dollar.
Worse, surging commodity prices inflated costs of small-scale downstream businesses in manufacturing.
"The rises in prices of commodities like iron ore, coal and oil will also inflate enterprises' costs and squeeze their profitability.
While the property sector continues to suffer from weakness, and geopolitical tensions have inflated commodity prices and could exert pressure on China's trade surplus, it is necessary for macroeconomic policies to more forcefully and effectively buffer the headwinds, said Zhu Haibin, J. P. Morgan's chief China economist.
Any escalation in hostilities will likely pose a significant risk to commodity exports and supplies and further inflate already elevated prices across energy classes and metals, said JPMorgan in a report.
However, the rising oil prices will inflate costs for China's manufacturing sector as the country is highly dependent on oil imports, he said.
"According to Luo, as China is highly dependent on oil imports, the rising oil prices will inflate costs for China's manufacturing industry.
Some economists worry that the high commodities prices would inflate production costs and prompt factories to eventually pass the higher input costs on to consumers.
However, Xu added that 47.37 percent of private enterprises feel rising pressure from the soaring costs in the second quarter, especially from raw material costs, with 54.79 percent of them witnessing inflated raw material costs from the previous month.
"Also, rising freight rates in the shipping sector that is relatively slower, inflated demand for airfreight in the already tight situation.
That is because the recent surge in commodity prices has severely inflated MSMEs' operational costs.
Zhao Shenglan, legal representative of Xunxian Shengshi Plastic &Pack Belt Products Factory, a private manufacturer based in Hebi, Henan province, said the company has operated at a low profit margin as rising raw material prices have inflated costs while product prices could not go up.
Risks associated with high corporate leverage and inflated property markets will need to be closely monitored," said Eckardt, of the World Bank.
This will significantly inflate market freight rates between Chinese and European ports, said Wang Zhengcheng, a researcher of transportation at CIB Research Co Ltd, a Shanghai-based business think tank.
One challenge is that Russia has closed its airspace to US carriers, and flights to China with route diversions from Russia take longer and inflate costs.
In China, inadequate supplies of potassic fertilizer have already inflated product prices.
Market concerns about a COVID-19 outbreak in Baise in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, a major domestic aluminum production hub, coupled with low levels of global inventory, are expected to further inflate aluminum prices, analysts said on Friday.
The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly held a meeting to arrange for stabilizing the coal market on Wednesday, warning some coal enterprises about inflated prices and urging producers to resume production as soon as possible, the NDRC said in a statement.
Chinese real estate enterprises can be divided into four categories according to their risk levels－developers undergoing transformation and investment diversification; companies financing at high interest rates and purchasing land plots at inflated costs; corporations operating with stable capital flow; and developers with low liability ratios.
The leftover policy room may be tapped in the coming year, as inflated energy and commodity costs, sporadic COVID-19 cases and a slowing property market may continue to weigh on the economy.
Inflated global prices for natural gas, mostly for spot LNG, lifted domestic gas prices and costs for many Chinese industries during the past few months.
过去几个月，全球天然气价格，尤其是现货液化天然气价格大幅上涨，导致中国许多行业的国内气价及成本随之攀升。
"Homogeneous competition leads to price wars, inflated marketing expense and little return on investment for the companies concerned," Cao said.
When these cars' airbags are being inflated, the flawed gas generating agent could cause the airbags to overinflate and burst, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation.
When these cars' airbags are being inflated, the flawed gas generating agent could cause overpressure which may break up the inflators and pose safety hazards, the statement said.
The lawsuits filed by Isaacs and William Chamberlain said Musk's and Tesla's conduct artificially inflated Tesla's stock price and violated federal securities laws.
But Isaacs said Tesla's and Musk's conduct caused the volatility that cost short-sellers hundreds of millions of dollars from having to cover their short positions, and caused all Tesla securities purchasers to pay inflated prices.
Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create small explosions to inflate air bags.
The Ukraine factor in Europe arising from Russia's special operations this week may affect the supply of raw materials for semiconductor production, which could inflate prices and further strain global supplies, sector experts said.
Yang said there have been controversial IPO cases that were feared to be detrimental to investors' confidence where big shareholders and relevant entities seemed to have engaged in financial fraud or inflated IPO prices, to make quick money from the listings.
Blamed for inflated credit ratings, the domestic rating sector failed to reflect the real credit status of firms and had poor early warning capabilities ahead of defaults, which rocked investor confidence and damaged the credibility of China's rating businesses.
Last August, China's bond regulator flagged the risk of inflated credit ratings as well as other shortcomings in the rating industry and issued a circular to tighten scrutiny over the sector.
Blamed for inflated credit ratings, the domestic rating sector failed to reflect the real credit status of firms and had poor early warning capabilities ahead of default, which rocked investor confidence and damaged the credibility of China's rating businesses.
Against such a backdrop, though the yuan's recent depreciation could inflate import costs and roil investor sentiment, it can help Chinese exporters maintain their competitiveness and help stabilize the country's export growth, they said.
The recent surge in commodity prices has severely inflated MSMEs' operational costs.
The potential market rigging was uncovered by private equity tycoon Ye Fei, who wrote on his social network account on May 13 that Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based Zoy Home had been buying shares from the open market to inflate stock prices.
The Ministry of Finance and its provincial commissioner offices have fined 19 pharmaceutical companies in China after finding they had inflated prices of medicine due to illegal activities that violated the Accounting Law, officials from the ministry said on Monday.
China's foreign exchange reserves returned to above $3.2 trillion by the end of 2020, the highest level since May in 2016, given the weaker US dollar and inflated asset prices, the country's foreign exchange regulator reported on Thursday.
A short seller report published by Wolfpack Research on Tuesday alleged that video-streaming platform iQIYI had inflated its 2019 revenue by approximately 8 billion yuan ($1.13 billion) to 13 billion yuan, or by 27 percent to 44 percent.
TAL Education Group, a New York-listed Chinese tutoring service provider, also reported inflated sales hours before Wednesday's opening bell.
Factory gate prices also inflated year-on-year to 0.4 percent in March from 0.1 percent a month earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
If victims are unable to pay, the criminals will introduce other lending platforms or individuals, which will repeat the trick to inflate the debt.
The most severe penalty ever issued by bond regulators, the ban is expected to alarm other credit rating companies at the time when inflated ratings appeared to be more common, according to analysts.
Zhang Xu, an analyst with Everbright Securities, said inflated ratings have been limited to a very small number of credit rating companies, but there are signs that the number of cheating institutions is rising.
The regulators have started to take action to fend off risks in response to current inflated ratings by some companies through conducting thorough inspections.
China's campaign to tighten regulations on asset management products and services will reshape the inflated financial sector by stifling the growth of leverage and constraining the conduit for shadow credit, experts said.
Without strict regulation, companies could easily inflate their financial sheets to avoid delisting warnings.
Separate supervisory functions can no longer cover the inflated cross-market financing business, such as shadow banking activities that have fueled asset bubbles, according to Xu's article.
Move to help central bank plug gaping holes in current rules for financial sectorA more complex set-up for China's financial regulatory system is emerging, which is required to oversee the cross-market business of inflated financial groups by making professional and effective decisions, emphasizing the core role of the central bank in the restructured financial regulatory framework.
The inflated revenues of 200.16 billion yuan ($29.4 billion) and profits of 20.29 billion yuan for 18 SOEs, revealed in the audit report, were accumulated over the years, accounting for 0.8 percent and 1.7 percent respectively of their revenues and profits for the same period.
Southwest Securities did not discover the facts that Nine Top inflated its service charge income and trade income from 2013 to 2015 and that it factitiously raised its bank deposits by 300 million yuan ($44 million), the statement said.
According to the unveiled cases, in response to stricter supervision, some officials and cadres even embezzled public funds through repeated reimbursement of catering bills, inflated items and quotations, and used them to cover the fees paid for illegal banquets.