The coffee was
lukewarm, not hot as I had requested.
咖啡是温的，不是我要求的热咖啡。
She washed her face with
lukewarm water to avoid shocking her sensitive skin.
她用微温的水洗脸，以免刺激她敏感的皮肤。
The soup had been sitting out for so long that it was now only
lukewarm.
汤放在外面太久，现在已经变得不冷不热了。
He took a sip of the
lukewarm tea and made a face, realizing it had gone stale.
他啜了一口那杯温吞的茶，做了个鬼脸，意识到茶已经不新鲜了。
It's best to serve baby's milk at a
lukewarm temperature to ensure it's comfortable for them to drink.
最好将婴儿的牛奶保持在微温状态，以确保喝起来让他们感到舒适。
The audience's response to the new play was
lukewarm at best; they didn't seem overly impressed.
观众对这部新剧的反应顶多算是不冷不热，他们似乎没有留下深刻印象。
After the initial excitement wore off, his interest in the project became
lukewarm.
初始的兴奋劲过去后，他对这个项目的态度就变得不那么积极了。
The bathwater felt
lukewarm, neither refreshing nor soothing after a long day at work.
工作了一整天后，浴缸里的水感觉温温的，既不提神也不舒缓。
His reception of the news was
lukewarm; he didn't seem too disappointed nor too excited.
他对这个消息的反应不冷不热，看起来既不太失望也不太兴奋。
The critic's review of the movie was
lukewarm, stating it was watchable but lacked depth.
评论家对这部电影的评价不温不火，认为可以看但缺乏深度。
The company's camera business, Yoshida said, has witnessed a robust rebound in China as the tourism industry has gathered steam, while its TV business has picked up relatively slowly due to the lukewarm property market.
吉田表示，随着旅游业的发展，该公司的相机业务在中国出现了强劲的反弹，而其电视业务由于房地产市场的不温不火而增长相对缓慢。
The Shanghai-based company had a lukewarm debut as its shares edged down by 0.99 percent to HK$800($103), compared with the offer price HK$808.00 per share.
这家总部位于上海的公司的上市首日表现平平，其股价下跌0.99%，至每股800港元（103美元），低于每股808港元的发行价。
"But the retail demand on Friday remains lukewarm, mostly because Alibaba doesn't sell its shares at a discount.
Despite Beijing's persistent pledge that it wants to forge a constructive relationship with Washington, the latter has remained at best lukewarm, preferring instead to cling to its idée fixe that security will be out of the question if it is not the world's sole superpower.
Shanghai-listed Moutai edged up 8.97 yuan per share to close 1.52 percent higher in Wednesday's trading, while the index and liquor sector saw lukewarm performances overall.
On Monday, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges both saw lukewarm performances, while the liquor sector saw a sharp decline.
Since the lukewarm market debut on July 9, shares of Xiaomi have fluctuated around the offering price of HK$17, touching a post-IPO peak of HK$22.2 at one time before sinking to as low as HK$15.52.
The mega-sized deal comes at a delicate time, as escalating Sino-US trade tension casts a shadow over the city's stock market and the lukewarm performance of high-profile companies including Ping An Good Doctor and Xiaomi dampens investor enthusiasm.
Since it filed the IPO application in May this year, China Tower has already slowed down its fundraising pace, amid lukewarm market performance and bearish investor sentiment.
The company plans to reopen its flagship store in London, which closed last February due to lukewarm sales.
Lack of enthusiasm casting a shadow over would-be blockbuster HK listingA lukewarm response from retail investors is casting a shadow over technology juggernaut Xiaomi's IPO in Hong Kong, a setback that could apply a sudden brake on the city-wide 'New Economy' IPO spree in the months ahead.
The slump in the property sector continued to linger, while sentiment on the stock market appeared to be lukewarm, with the Shanghai Composite Index ending last year's trading below the key 3,000-point benchmark.
The efforts to promote a modern industrial system would help form a virtuous cycle between consumption and investment, while the country's increasingly diverse export markets and emerging export advantages in new energy sectors will help offset lukewarm global demand, said Zhang Xiaoqiang, executive vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday also pointed to unchanged inflation levels and lukewarm industrial activity in China last month.
"In light of the latest inflation readings, other recent developments regarding China's broad economy and the lukewarm policy response so far, Lu said his team is further lowering its CPI and PPI forecasts for both 2023 and 2024.
Zhang Bin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said, "The biggest challenge facing China's recovery is the lukewarm momentum of private investment — a key determinant of growth in employment, income and consumption.
"The biggest challenge facing China's recovery is the lukewarm momentum of private investment — a key determinant of the growth in employment, income and consumption.
In a report released in late December, experts from Pictet Wealth Management, a Swiss firm, described their outlook for the global stock market performance as lukewarm.
"The country's year-on-year CPI growth may fall to about 1.8 percent in November, Wang said, given the expected peak of pork prices, falling vegetable prices and lukewarm consumer activity.
The latest figures showed that the country's production activities remained robust, but consumption and investment remained lukewarm, underlining the necessity for policy support to bolster market demand and buffer downside risks, they said.
他们指出，最新数据显示，该国的生产活动仍然强劲，但消费和投资表现平淡，这突显了有必要通过政策支持来提振市场需求，并缓冲下行风险。
Local and global brands shine as 11-11 breaks sales records, spurs consumptionDespite an unusually lukewarm start and low-key character, this year's "Double-11"－the 11-11 shopping carnival－still proved outstanding as it showcased China's immense consumption potential and the economy's resilience.
Wu Chaoming, chief economist at Chasing Securities, said high factory-gate prices have underpinned the profits of upstream companies as they have also combined with lukewarm consumer demand to weigh on profits of downstream firms.
China's economy is likely to regain some momentum amid efforts to boost power supply and a more stable epidemic control situation, but structural problems like elevated commodity prices and lukewarm domestic demand may continue, experts said.
The lukewarm PMI readings have reflected intensified downward economic pressure on the Chinese economy in the third quarter, due to local COVID-19 cases, heavy rainfall, supply-side disruptions, high raw material costs and a slowing property market, experts said.
"I don't think China is exporting inflation to the rest of the world," she said, noting that commodity-intensive investments have been lukewarm in China, and most of its exports have been consumer goods, which only saw moderate price growth.
A pub-like tea house in Changsha said it once introduced cakes made from dark tea, but they were eventually taken off the shelves due to a lukewarm response from clients.
The survey showed that overseas clients also are taking a lukewarm attitude or even a wait-and-see attitude.
His store Ebebek, a shopping platform for mother-and-baby products, was a top online venue in Turkey, but its international performance had been lukewarm.
The Bohai-Rim Steam-Coal Price Index, a gauge of coal prices in northern China's major ports, stood at 577 yuan ($84) per ton Wednesday, down 1 yuan compared with last Wednesday, according to Qinhuangdao Ocean Shipping Coal Trading Market Co Ltd. Analysts attributed the lukewarm prices to the supply-demand equilibrium in the market.
However, the sector is facing rising costs, lukewarm demand and glut output of some low-end processing fields, the ministry observed.
"Potential homebuyers tend to spend more time in choosing homes and bargaining with owners in a lukewarm market environment that's marked by home-buying restrictions and loan tightening," said Zhang Dawei, chief analyst at Centaline Property Agency Ltd.
BAIC was one of the first Chinese conventional carmakers to make inroads into the NEV market, but its performance has been lukewarm after a short head start.
The company saw its sales slide 15 percent to 3.09 million vehicles last year in China, due to the market's overall downturn and customers' lukewarm response to its three-cylinder vehicles.
Porsche's China sales soared 28 percent in the same period despite a lukewarm first quarter.
Gong Liutang, a professor of applied economics at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, said the RRR cut is within expectations, and further macroeconomic policy adjustments such as a universal cut in lending rates and an increase in the fiscal deficit are still needed to bolster the current lukewarm market confidence.
Liu Chunsheng, an associate professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, said the increase also reflects the resilience of the Chinese economy, with the country's exports having resumed positive growth in November despite lukewarm global demand.
Given that consumers' credit demand remains lukewarm, multipronged financial policies are expected to promote consumer spending, including reducing the cost of borrowing consumer loans and stabilizing the property market, Zhou said.
The US stock market may continue to be lukewarm.
"Despite the lukewarm expansion in new loans, China's broad money supply, or M2, stood at 264.7 trillion yuan as of the end of November, up 12.4 percent from a year ago, according to the PBOC.
Cuts to interest rates remain a useful tool to boost the economy amid lukewarm private-sector demand and falling external demand, said Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank.
Amid lukewarm consumer sentiment and a property market downturn, the economy is still in urgent need of greater support for infrastructure investment to stabilize, said Ye Yindan, a researcher at the Bank of China Research Institute.
As slower export growth and lukewarm property sector recovery exert a drag on growth, lowering financing costs to boost investment in infrastructure and manufacturing and stabilize the property sector may become necessary.
Their remarks came after emerging signs that China's economic recovery may have slowed due to lukewarm market demand, a subdued housing market and renewed COVID-19 cases.
But the foundation of the recovery remains unstable, they said, given that improvements in household credit demand remain lukewarm amid a property downturn while government bond issuance could lose momentum.
However, the NEEQ, also known as the new third board, has been plagued by lukewarm investor participation and insufficient market liquidity.
Market observers typically blame the relatively low valuation of NEEQ-traded companies on lukewarm market liquidity, which is in turn attributable to strict investment thresholds.
In its early development stage, however, the new third board faced difficulties in fully playing its financing and investment functions and suffered from lukewarm liquidity as well as voluntary exits of firms from the platform.
Looking ahead, the possibility of having considerably more such reports against US-listed Chinese firms is low, Chen said, citing the pool of targets should be limited given that many US-listed Chinese firms saw lukewarm market performance.
Despite a lukewarm global landscape of new share sales, capital raised on the Chinese mainland market last year surged to a seven-year high, as groundbreaking market-oriented reforms started to pay off in serving the real economy, experts said.
Hong Rong, founder of Shanghai-based investor education platform Hongda Education, said the stellar profits received lukewarm market response because investors had factored in the improved earnings before the announcements amid market recovery.
News that some local governments have eased restrictions on housing sales hit the headlines this week, but the move received a lukewarm response from A-share investors.
Hong Hao, chief strategist at BOCOM International Holdings Co, said the amount of capital inflow prompted by the reform may not be considerable in the short term, given the limited number of foreign investors included in the new regulation and the current lukewarm investment environment in the A-share market, reported Shanghai-based thepaper.
Despite disappointing market performance and lukewarm investor appetite casting a shadow over the new economy IPO frenzy, a flurry of mainland companies have lost no time in filing their IPO applications in Hong Kong, in their quest to cash in on the city's listing regime reform and raise funds before a potential reversal from peak valuations.
Experts expected lukewarm trading as long-term attractiveness yet to take effectThe first trading day of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect's trading quota expansion got a lukewarm market response as financial analysts argued that bilateral capital inflows will depend on the long-term attractiveness of equity markets.
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