The movie's plot was
lackluster, failing to engage the audience.
这部电影的情节平淡无奇，无法吸引观众。
The presentation lacked any real enthusiasm or spark.
这次演讲毫无热情或活力。
Her artwork is consistently
lackluster, with no unique style.
她的作品总是缺乏个性，没有独特的风格。
The restaurant's food was
lackluster; it failed to impress us.
餐厅的食物乏善可陈，没有给我们留下深刻印象。
His performance in the game was
lackluster, as he scored only one goal.
他在比赛中的表现平庸，只进了一个球。
The company's financial report was
lackluster, causing investors to lose confidence.
公司的财务报告乏善可陈，让投资者失去了信心。
The vacation was
lackluster due to constant rain and bad weather.
因为持续下雨和糟糕的天气，这次假期变得索然无味。
The book's writing was
lackluster, making it difficult to stay engaged.
这本书的写作平庸，让人难以保持阅读兴趣。
Her acting skills were
lackluster, which detracted from the overall quality of the play.
她的演技平庸，影响了整个剧目的质量。
The new smartphone model lacks innovation, leaving much to be desired.
新款智能手机缺乏创新，令人失望。
Honeywell vows to continue strengthening localized research and development in China this year despite the lackluster global economic recovery.
霍尼韦尔誓言，尽管全球经济复苏乏力，但今年仍将继续加强在中国的本地化研发。
The water and housing industry in China is also affected by the lackluster property sector in the country due to the strong positive correlation between them.
中国的水和住房行业也受到该国房地产行业低迷的影响，因为它们之间存在强烈的正相关关系。
"Despite overall lackluster performance, China has been bucking the trend to become a growth engine for a number of the luxury brands we are serving, which has offset the downward trend," said Xue.
Despite lackluster consumption growth at home and abroad, one in every five small shops surveyed by LST reported they have bucked the trend and witnessed positive revenue growth.
Other major liquor makers also saw lackluster stock performances on Thursday.
Eclipsing lackluster spending tides in sectors like food and beverages, makeup sales revenue from imported lipsticks to eyeliners this year rose 28 percent year-on-year, outstripping the nearly 10 percent growth rate of the overall fast-moving consumer goods sector, according to latest figures by consultancies Bain and Kantar Worldpanel.
But, Guo Guangchang, Fosun International's founder and chairman, wrote in a public note in late November that only good companies will choose to go public when the market is lackluster.
Its mobile business, which has struggled with lackluster smartphone performance, is also recovering thanks to lower operating costs and optimized product lines, the company said.
In this quarter, its traditional personal computer business saw rapid growth and its mobile business, which has been struggling with lackluster smartphone performance for a while, is also recovering by lowering operation costs and optimizing product lines, Lenovo said.
But, as escalating Sino-US trade tensions cast a shadow over the city's stock market, analysts said the company could face a tough reality check amid muted investor demand and lackluster market performance.
After Fan Xiangfu took over as the company's general manager in 2015, Shuijingfang has recovered from its previously lackluster performance.
Vanke's annual report was in contrast to China's lackluster property market, which has retreated from its red hot expansion as home prices have faltered or saw slower increases in major cities amid government policies to curb speculation.
Despite Wanda's recent funding turmoil and lackluster growth in China's box office revenue, Dolby sees China as a "fundamentally" and "incredibly" important market.
Despite pressures from a property downturn, lackluster demand both at home and abroad and a more complicated external environment, China's economic prospects this year remain bright; therefore, global business executives and economists said their confidence and optimism are undented.
Multinational corporations have voiced optimism about China's economic prospects and pledged efforts to step up investment in the world's second-largest economy, reaffirming that their long-term confidence in the Chinese market remains intact, despite the lackluster global economic recovery.
Zhou said the PPI decline is mainly due to lackluster market demand, declining energy prices and the relatively high comparison base in the previous year.
Citing the recently concluded tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference, Zhou said, "China will likely adopt a more expansionary fiscal policy next year to boost the economy amid lackluster demand, a property downturn and a cloudy global outlook, including lifting its 2024 budget deficit and further tax and fee reductions.
According to a Xinhua News Agency report, the conference noted that China continues to face challenges such as lack of effective demand, overcapacity in certain sectors and lackluster social expectations.
Those difficulties and challenges include lack of effective demand, lackluster social expectations, and rising complexity, severity and uncertainty of the external environment.
The report says that the upgrades for China and India more than offset a lowering of the forecast for Southeast Asia, caused by lackluster performance in the manufacturing sector.
Ding Yue, deputy general manager at Zolix, a Beijing-based supplier of optical instruments, said that industrial companies still face pressures amid lackluster demand, expecting to see further steps to boost market confidence and support the development of the real economy.
Considering the lackluster demand for industrial products, Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said that more steps are needed to boost domestic demand and spur consumption.
Dong said the wider PPI decline was affected by factors including declining international prices of oil and lackluster demand for some industrial products.
董表示，更广泛的PPI下降受到了多种因素的影响，其中包括国际油价的下跌以及部分工业产品需求疲软。
Chang Ran, a senior researcher at the Zhixin Investment Research Institute, said the year-on-year decrease in China's exports in October widened 2.5 percentage points compared with September as stiff challenges remain in an economy facing a grim external environment and lackluster global demand.
Global trade has been lackluster since the start of the year, weighed down by a number of factors, including high inflation, excessive inventories and geopolitical tensions, said Commerce Ministry spokeswoman Shu Jueting at a news conference in Beijing.
Furthermore, cash levels of listed enterprises are at relatively high levels, which leads to the problem of insufficient household consumption and lackluster investment by enterprises.
Despite concerns over deflationary pressure and lackluster business sentiment, they said the nation's economic activity is moving in the right direction amid a raft of supportive measures implemented in recent months, and economic growth will likely pick up gradually in the coming months.
"While industrial companies still face pressures amid lackluster demand, a series of recently released supportive measures, such as tax and fee reductions and boosting technological innovation, will significantly strengthen the market confidence and benefit companies' future development," said Ding Yue, deputy general manager at Zolix, a Beijing-based supplier of optical instruments.
However, they said lackluster demand still weighs on economic growth, adding that further macroeconomic support — including additional monetary easing and forceful fiscal support for households — will be crucial in consolidating the recovery trend.
China's exports increased 0.8 percent year-on-year in the first eight months, despite lackluster overseas demand, rising protectionist pressures and intensifying geopolitical tensions, offering an encouraging boost to the country's economic recovery, said experts and executives.
As the global economy is dealing with a sluggish recovery and cross-border investment remains lackluster, China has intensified efforts to boost its foreign investment inflow, unveiling 24 targeted policy measures in mid-August.
Though transnational investment globally is lackluster, foreign investment in China continues to grow.
Analysts said the new move signals the country's latest push to bolster the private sector, and is part of a package of stimulus measures to revive China's recovery trend amid challenges and pressures from lackluster demand and a more complicated external environment.
However, they warned that the broader economy is still facing headwinds and pressures from lackluster demand and a complicated external environment, highlighting the necessity for stepped-up countercyclical policy adjustment.
Warning of challenges to the private sector, including lackluster demand, rising production costs and financing difficulties, they called for more steps to tackle issues faced by private enterprises, ease market access restrictions and further increase policy support to ensure returns on private investment.
Sales of semiconductors around the globe remained lackluster.
Lackluster consumer demand has partly resulted in the Consumer Price Index, the main gauge of inflation, coming in flat in June compared with the same period last year, NBS data showed earlier.
They said the economy has shown an uneven recovery with the endogenous driving force still weak and demand lackluster, and the focus should be placed on boosting domestic demand as well as supporting the development of the private sector.
On the other, sluggish domestic demand is creating caution, evidenced by lackluster investment and consumption from the private sector and a faltering job market.
Globally, economic growth will bottom out at 2.8 percent this year before rising slowly to 3 percent in 2024, a lackluster pace by historical standards, as inflation is stickier than anticipated and financial risks have risen, according to the IMF.
The biggest one remains addressing insufficient aggregate demand, especially lackluster consumer confidence.
Noting the challenge of lackluster demand, the meeting called for measures to promote an early recovery of consumption as the main economic driving force, steadfastly advance opening-up as well as upgrade foreign trade and investment.
Despite the lackluster monthly data, most surveyed enterprises believed that the market will recover, as COVID-19 case numbers will gradually ease, Zhao said.
The major challenge that China faces now is a lack of confidence and lackluster domestic demand.
"Globally, commodity price volatility and geopolitical conflicts are creating mounting uncertainties, while the resurgence of COVID-19 in major cities including Shanghai and stubbornly lackluster domestic demand are affecting business activity and sentiment.
"But the hovering domestic COVID cases have made the consumption rebound somewhat lackluster, notably dealing a blow to the catering and tourism sectors.
Therefore, the major issue that China has to address at present is insufficient demand and lackluster economic growth.
Zhang Bin, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of World Economics and Politics, said it is necessary for China to roll out a basket of policies to effectively boost domestic demand and counter the economic downward pressure posed by a lackluster property sector and a potential slowdown in export growth.
The lackluster performance of the two indexes dragged the Caixin China General Composite PMI down by 0.3 percentage point to 51.2 in November.
Structural problems like elevated commodity prices and lackluster domestic demand, however, may continue and restrict room for the expected rebound, making stronger policy supports necessary in the near term, they said.
Output prices, meanwhile, registered moderate growth in August, pointing to the sector's limited pricing power to pass the rising costs to clients amid lackluster market demand, the survey said.
Huang Yanming, director of the research institute of Shanghai-listed Guotai Junan Securities, said the lackluster expansion in infrastructure investment reflected that fiscal policy has saved bullets in the first half amid limited downward economic pressure.
As lackluster housing sales will probably continue in near future, financing among property firms still faces difficulties and will remain at a modest level, said Liu Shui, director of research at the China Index Academy.
Two highly anticipated Hollywood tentpoles — Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — were released in early June, but their performances were lackluster.
Equities of real estate developers listed on the A-share market gained almost 2 percent on average on Thursday, following Wednesday's announcement of multiple supportive policies to stabilize the lackluster property market.
Amid the challenges of COVID-19 and lackluster consumer demand, Chinese consumer electronics companies are seeking to boost sales during the June 18 online shopping festival.
This is against the backdrop of refiners worldwide decreasing utilization rates after months of lackluster demand and an abundance of inventories.
这是在炼油厂全球范围内降低开工率的背景下发生的，此前经历了数月的需求疲软和库存过剩。
Chinese energy giants' lackluster performances during the first six months of the year have also quickened their efforts to tap the renewables sector.
今年上半年中国能源巨头的表现不佳也促使他们加快了对可再生能源领域的开发。
A mayor in Hubei province on Saturday promoted locally raised lobsters at a news conference in a bid to promote its lackluster sales amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Despite being lackluster year, the Chinese film industry staged a turnaround on the eve of 2020 New Year.
"Signs of upturn are still fragile," he said, citing that lackluster investment and the shortened payroll of the manufacturing sector pointed to protracted pressure faced by the sector amid domestic downside risks and external uncertainties.
Trio of blockbusters provides boost to recently lackluster market, analyst saysChinese moviegoers set a box office record for the eve of the weeklong National Day holiday on Monday, with takings more than twice the previous record, according to several industry trackers.
Industry analyst Wu Nian said more than 80 film companies invested in the three blockbusters, which would provide a substantial boost to the recently lackluster market.
Otherwise, liquidity released by the central bank recently may flock into properties, where returns seemed more assured than in the current lackluster manufacturing sector, blowing risky property bubbles and leading to a deteriorating economic structure, he said.
Given a lackluster global economy, however, the shipbuilding industry still faces grim circumstances.
CBRE expects Chinese outbound real estate investment to remain lackluster this year, with the wave of disposals set to continue.
While some experts have forecast that the price of iron ore will be boosted as the global iron ore market is in the grip of a supply shock and higher prices could spur extra output from Chinese mines, Zhu Yi, a Hong Kong-based senior analyst of metals and mining at Bloomberg Intelligence, said she believes the chances for Chinese steel mills to pass on the cost pressure to downstream users are limited as downstream demand is lackluster.
Given a lackluster global economy, however, the shipbuilding industry still faces grim circumstances, such as fierce competition and dropping profits, and Chinese companies are no exception.
Officials, company executives and experts said that despite geopolitical uncertainties and lackluster global demand, Chinese companies are eager to ride the latest technological wave, which includes artificial intelligence, or AI, to sharpen their global competitiveness and strengthen the security of key industrial chains.
Deeper China-United States cooperation in technology is the key to stabilizing global industrial and supply chains, and driving the recovery of the global economy amid challenges such as subdued investment sentiment and lackluster demand, company executives and experts said.
After a lackluster start, the VW brand saw sales of electric I. D. vehicles hit a record 20,500 units in October, primarily thanks to the popularity of the I. D. 3 hatchback.
After producing vehicles in China for over a decade, Japan's Mitsubishi Motors has decided to end its joint venture with local partner GAC because of lackluster performance against fierce competition in the world's largest vehicle market.
This is part of a "light-asset "approach Stellantis has adopted due to its lackluster operations in the country.
A closer look revealed that the sales fall was primarily the result of lackluster performance at its joint ventures SAIC GM and SAIC Volkswagen.
French marques including Peugeot, Citroen and Renault have lackluster performance in China.
The profit of the New York-listed startup in the second quarter stood at 6.06 billion yuan, tumbling 119.6 percent from the same period last year and 24.2 percent from the first quarter this year, mainly due to lackluster sales.
The falls in its revenue and profit were mainly attributed to its lackluster sales.
These are the bestselling ones among those from international volume brands but lag Chinese rivals, primarily because of their lackluster onboard systems and smart features, according to the China Passenger Car Association.
It now has two plug-in hybrids and one electric model in the Chinese market, but the sales performance has been lackluster.
The market's lackluster performance in the first two months this year resulted in more financial pressure on carmakers, so they turned to discounts to cut their inventory, said the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
NEV subsidies ended on Dec 31,2022, which resulted in a lackluster start for the market this year.
China's new energy vehicle market, despite a lackluster start, will maintain its rapid growth momentum thanks to rising demand and a cornucopia of new models, said experts and industry executives.
The country's recent lackluster housing market will subdue the consumer demand for pickup trucks, the association said, adding that the pickup truck sales will be under pressure.
Both brands were previously popular in China, with their combined sales exceeding 700,000 units in 2015, but their buyers have since been lured away, and the two parent companies are divided on their next steps following a lackluster performance.
Both brands were previously popular in China, with their combined sales exceeding 700,000 units in 2015, but their buyers have since been lured away, and the two parents are divided on their lackluster performance, said analysts.
Stellantis is tackling the lackluster performance at another Chinese joint venture, GAC-Stellantis, as well.
Despite its lackluster performance, South Korean carmaker Kia has decided to give it another try in the world's largest vehicle market.
International brands and their joint ventures are doing a lackluster job.
Japanese carmaker Mazda is restructuring its Chinese joint ventures to shore up its lackluster performance, reflecting the stress of smaller marques that struggle to find their position in the world's most competitive and largest vehicle market.
Even Volkswagen, which had started talks with China before Hahn's arrival, remained hesitant because of its lackluster financial performance.
DS Automobiles came to China in 2012, but the following years have been lackluster.
Great Wall Motors and GAC Group have lowered their sales targets, and many other companies including subsidiaries of China's largest carmaker SAIC Motor are cutting salaries of their employees because of lackluster sales.
It said the novel coronavirus, which started to spread outside of Hubei province around Jan 20, had limited effects on the lackluster performance in January.
"So the current lackluster performance, both in the new energy vehicle segment and the overall market, is a short-term thing.
Renault's lackluster performance has a lot to do with its short history in China.
Patrick Yuan, an analyst at Jefferies Hong Kong, said the situation had something to do with its lackluster sales.
Neil Wu, an auto analyst at consulting firm Roland Berger, said lackluster sales are hurting carmakers' revenue and profit and they have to resort to a diversified financing plan.
Electric carmaker Nio Inc is to slash jobs to control expenses and improve operational efficiency, as the Chinese startup feels the pinch from a lackluster performance and the overall slowdown in the country.
The carmaker blamed the "macroeconomic environment and depressive auto market" for its lackluster sales.
The company has been actively exploring the private car market in recent years to reverse lackluster sales due partly to the lack of new models and shops.
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