I need to use the
loo.
我需要去上厕所。
Could you tell me where the nearest
loo is? - 你能告诉我最近的厕所在哪里吗？
Excuse me, is there a
loo on this f
loor? - 对不起，这层有卫生间吗？
He's been in the
loo for ages. Is everything alright? - 他上厕所去了很久，一切都还好吧？
The sign says "Loo closed for cleaning". - 标志上写着“厕所关闭清洁中”。
Before we leave, let's all visit the
loo.
在我们离开之前，大家都去下厕所吧。
The restaurant's
loo was surprisingly clean and stylish.
餐厅的洗手间出奇地干净且时尚。
She rushed to find a
loo as soon as she got off the train.
她一下火车就急匆匆地去找厕所。
There's a queue for the ladies'
loo.
女厕所外面排着队呢。
He forgot to lock the
loo door and it caused an embarrassing moment.
他忘了锁厕所门，结果造成了尴尬的局面。
以上例句展示了“
loo”作为厕所的日常用法，以及在不同情境中的表达。
The tertiary hospital with 400 beds in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Pudong New District will be the first large-scale general hospital in the city with Singaporean investment, Loo Choon Yong, executive chairman of Raffles Medical Group, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily on Thursday.
"The Shanghai hospital is a major step toward Raffles' goal of providing international tertiary level medical services to locals and expatriates living in the eastern metropolis and surrounding provinces as well as international patients from the neighboring countries," said Loo.
Loo said that the top 20 percent of the 24 million Shanghai residents can more than afford to pay for treatment at the hospital, and many of them now have commercial insurance.
Shanghai's advantage also lies in its function as a core city in the affluent Yangtze River Delta region and that a rising number of its younger generation who once studied or lived abroad would like to have the kind of healthcare services that they experienced overseas, Loo said.
Loob's chief executive officer Bryan Loo told reporters after attending the signing ceremony that its first home-grown bubble tea brand Tealive will be opened in Shanghai on September before expanding to various cities in China.
Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said: "There's plenty to be positive about in China's year-end reported numbers.
Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said that the housing market correction process is a much needed one, and probably still has two to three years more to run.
Stabilizing the property sector and reducing housing inventories will require further policies to stimulate demand," Loo said.
"Retail sales in October were particularly strong, beating even our above-consensus estimates, given sharp increases in holiday-related spending components, including catering, tobacco and alcohol, sports and entertainment, and communication equipment," said Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
Loo said fading destocking pressures likely contributed to an uptick in manufacturing activity, and notably three "new economy" sectors of electric vehicles, batteries and renewables raced ahead, all growing at double-digit year-on-year paces.
Loo highlighted the necessity of further stimulus to consolidate the recovery trend, saying that a feed-through of these supportive measures will help stabilize growth momentum henceforth.
Loo said that fading destocking pressures likely contributed to an uptick in manufacturing activity, and notably three "new economy" sectors — electric vehicles, batteries and renewables — raced ahead, all growing at a double-digit pace year-on-year.
Loo highlighted the need for more stimulus to consolidate the recovery trend, saying that these anticipated supportive measures would help further stabilize the growth momentum.
Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said the recent approval of the fiscal support package, coming out of the central government's balance sheet, is small by historical standards but more high-profile compared to past measures, signaling policymakers are on standby for further easing.
Loo said her team expects the fourth-quarter GDP to expand by 1.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter basis, resulting in an annual growth rate of 5.2 percent, a revision from their previous forecast of 5.1 percent, given the third quarter's slight out-performance.
This strong quarterly performance, alongside favorable base effects in the fourth quarter, mean that meeting the official growth target of 'around 5 percent' is now probably assured," said Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
"We expect GDP will expand by 5.2 percent in 2023," Loo said.
"Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said the latest data confirmed a stimulus-led growth narrative in the third quarter.
"As easing measures gathered pace around the end of July, economic activity broadly improved in the subsequent months," Loo said.
Here is the latest interview with Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics.
"We expect the economy to have reached a cyclical trough in July, and it should stabilize in the coming months, given the range of stimulus measures put in place," said Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics.
On the monetary policy side, Loo said her team expects a third round of cuts, of 10 basis points, across the key policy rates this year, alongside another 25-basis-point cut to the reserve requirement ratio at the quarter's end in December.
"Recent data suggests that the economy likely bottomed out in July, and that activity is indeed now moving in the right direction," said Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
While most hard macro data is now on a firmer footing than in July, Loo said there remain two lingering areas of weakness — property and sentiment.
Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said headline CPI returned to positive territory in August, as increases in services-related segments more than offset the continued drags from lower oil and pork prices.
According to Loo, her team expects year-on-year CPI and PPI growth to average 0.5 percent and minus 3.2 percent this year, recovering to 1.8 percent and 1 percent next year.
Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said lots of policy measures will support growth, but no big, broad-based credit or fiscal moves are likely.
Loo said her team expects two 25 basis point cuts to the RRR in September and December, alongside a third round of cuts of 10 basis points across key policy rates this year.
Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said that the July activity data underscored a weak underlying investment appetite following a fast fading opening boost, production and manufacturing coming under continued pressure from poor global demand for Chinese goods and destocking pressures as well as a growing confidence crisis associated with the property sector.
"We now expect the authorities to follow through with 15 basis point cuts to the one-year and five-year loan prime rates next week, on Aug 21. xa0That could offer some temporary relief to household loan growth, as we'd seen with the June cuts," said Loo from Oxford Economics.
While the positive impact of easing measures announced recently is yet to show up on the data, Loo said that more government support is necessary to turn around the low confidence levels, such as fiscal transfers to households and private businesses, productive investments in green technology and high-end manufacturing.
When it comes to the proper easing measures, Loo said there is still room for further property sector easing, particularly in first-tier cities where demand is relatively robust.
Meanwhile, Loo said that in the near-term, there are a few drivers that could nudge the numbers up in the rest of the second half.
The mild fiscal consolidation in the first half is likely to give way now to fiscal accommodation, given that local governments are now reportedly being given a September deadline for meeting their annual local government special bond issuance quotas, with anxa0upsized quotaxa0also possible in the fourth quarter, Loo said.
Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said that fiscal support will be targeted at industries in the form of tax incentives or subsidies, while the monetary policy will be focused on liquidity support instead of interest rate cuts.
Louise Loo, an economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said the meeting reiterated the pro-growth policy stance, even as GDP growth surprised on the upside in the first quarter.
"We continue to expect policies to stay accommodative as-is this year, until the recovery is entrenched," Loo said.
Citing the first quarter figures, Louise Loo, China lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said the combination of a steady uptick in consumer confidence as well as the still-incomplete release of pent-up demand suggests that the consumer-led recovery still has room to run.
英国智库牛津经济研究院（Oxford Economics）的中国区首席经济学家路易丝·卢（Louise Loo）在引用第一季度数据时指出，消费者信心的持续上升以及尚未完全释放的被压抑需求相结合，表明以消费者为主导的经济复苏仍有进一步发展的空间。
Given the low base effect in the previous year, Loo said her team expects China's GDP to accelerate on a year-on-year basis, while fading consumption momentum, the winding down of fiscal stimulus and weaker external demand would put downward pressure on domestic growth in the second half of the year.
Loo 表示，考虑到去年同期基数较低，其团队预计中国GDP将在同比基础上有所加速。然而，消费动力减弱、财政刺激政策逐步退出以及外部需求疲软等因素将会在下半年对国内经济增长带来下行压力。
Loo's views were echoed by Ben Simpfendorfer, a partner at consultancy Oliver Wyman, who estimated that China's recovery would strengthen over the coming quarters.
Loo的观点得到了奥纬咨询公司合伙人Ben Simpfendorfer的呼应，他认为中国未来的几个季度经济复苏将会进一步加强。
"In the eyes of Malaysian entrepreneurs, the Canton Fair represents a gathering of China's finest businesses and highest-quality products, offering unparalleled resources and commercial opportunities that cannot be matched by other exhibitions," said Loo Kok Seong, head of the chamber.
"Just as we think the recent developed market financial stress is contained, so is the fallout on China's macro outlook," said Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
"The uptrend in China's economic activity was broad-based in January-February, with retail sales and investments more or less in line with expectations," said Louise Loo, China lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
According to Loo, more modest industrial production reflects weaknesses in external demand.
Louise Loo, a senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, highlighted the stronger-than-expected fourth quarter data and the "green shoots of recovery" emerging in recent economic activities.
"For the first quarter of 2023, we expect growth to accelerate sequentially," Loo said.
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.
Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said their team now expects a faster economic recovery in China, as the combination of a stronger showing in retail and consumer-focused segments as well as policymakers' pro-growth policy pivots are arguably reasons to be sanguine on China's outlook this year.
In terms of policy, we think authorities' proactive and pro-growth stance implies that data-dependent macro policy easing will help stabilize the economy in the near-term, with targeted property sector support, possible relief measures for households, and a push into increased off-balance sheet infrastructure spending as the preferred policy levers," Loo said.
Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said she expects to see continued policy accommodation this year, with off-budget fiscal policy, including local government special bonds, likely to be the primary policy lever.
While multiple cyclical and structural headwinds — from a gloomy global outlook to China's weak property market — may weigh on the country's near-term outlook, macro policy easing will help stabilize the economy, with targeted property sector support, relief measures for households and infrastructure spending being the preferred policy tools, said Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
"Private consumption and, to a lesser extent, fixed investment and infrastructure spending, will be key drivers of the rebound," said Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics.
Loo from Oxford Economics said the renminbi may trade around the 7-per-dollar level and strengthen moderately as China's economic rebound gathers pace in the second and third quarters.
Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said that while a surge in COVID cases and uncertainties point to a weaker outlook in the first quarter of next year, the economy will gradually recover and stabilize with macro policy easing.
Amid a slew of measures focused on supporting the real estate sector, recent high-level talk "suggests that fiscal policy will take a front seat in stimulating domestic consumption next year, while authorities keep monetary conditions loose", Loo added.
"Meanwhile, Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said the latest economic data actualized some of the downside risk as a result of the COVID resurgence and uncertainties, adding that "troubles in the real estate sector as well as strong external headwinds remain meaningful drags on the economy".
Citing a recent meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Loo said the top leadership has signaled a more pro-growth focus for next year.
Despite headwinds, Louise Loo, senior economist at the Oxford Economics think tank, expects the pass-through of recent easing measures and authorities' data-dependent policy loosening in the coming months to support a tentative and bumpy recovery going forward.
"With domestic macro policy settings likely to remain loose as authorities increasingly look to stabilize the economy and the property sector, we expect activity indicators to bottom out and a tentative recovery to gather steam heading into 2023," Loo said.
Cyrus Ho Su Hui, a consultant psychiatrist and clinical lecturer with the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, said emerging outbreaks can affect anyone, irrespective of gender and status.
However, Louise Loo, lead economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, cautioned that retail activity could falter following a temporary holiday-related surge, meaning that macroeconomic policies will likely remain accommodative to promote a sustained recovery.
Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said: "We maintain our growth forecast (for China) for 2023 at 5.1 percent.
Further defensive actions that may be taken soon include cutting foreign exchange deposit RRRs to boost foreign exchange liquidity and imposing a reserve requirement for foreign exchange derivative sales, said Louise Loo, lead economist at Oxford Economics.
Also deeming renminbi internationalization as a multi-year process, Louise Loo, senior economist at British think tank Oxford Economics, said she expects to see further growth in the renminbi offshore bond markets and more bilateral currency swap agreements between the PBOC and other central banks.
Loo said the renminbi might trade around the 7-per-dollar level next year and strengthen moderately as China's economic rebound gathers pace in the second and third quarters.
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