We bought the house at a
modest price.
我们以适中的价格买下了这所房子。
Mary's very
modest about her success.
玛丽对自己的成就很谦虚。
The politician is
modest about his achievements.
这位政治家提起自己取得的成绩时非常谦虚。
Data from global market research company Canalys showed that smartphone shipments in China saw a second consecutive quarter of modest decline, falling 5 percent year-on-year to 66.7 million units in the third quarter of this year.
全球市场研究公司Canalys的数据显示，中国智能手机出货量连续第二个季度小幅下降，今年第三季度同比下降5%，至6670万部。
In recent years, Apple has made modest strides in product innovation.
近年来，苹果在产品创新方面取得了长足进步。
China will lead Asian natural gas demand to return to modest growth of around 3 percent this year, the highest among all regions worldwide, the International Energy Agency said in a report on the gas market in June.
国际能源署（International Energy Agency）在6月份的一份天然气市场报告中表示，今年中国将带领亚洲天然气需求恢复到3%左右的适度增长，这是全球所有地区中最高的。
Starbucks China Chief Executive Officer Leo Tsoi said it is Starbucks' modest contribution to help Shanghai customers return to their pre-outbreak routines and lifestyles and get the city back to its renowned buzz and vibrancy.
星巴克中国区首席执行官Leo Tsoi表示，星巴克为帮助上海顾客恢复疫情前的日常生活和生活方式，让这座城市恢复其著名的热闹和活力做出了微薄的贡献。
According to think tank Research and Markets, the SynBio industry is a prime growth opportunity as many of its applications have large market applications, the penetration rate is still modest and the development of exciting new technologies is also driving innovation in the sector.
根据智库Research and Markets的说法，SynBio行业是一个主要的增长机会，因为它的许多应用程序都有大型市场应用程序，渗透率仍然不高，令人兴奋的新技术的发展也在推动该行业的创新。
Companies' share of global annual revenue from China went through a modest but mostly positive fluctuation in comparison with the previous four years, and approximately half of the companies obtained over 30 percent of revenue from China," he said.
与前四年相比，公司在全球来自中国的年收入中所占的份额经历了适度但大多为正的波动，大约一半的公司从中国获得了超过30%的收入，”他说。
The group started in China three decades ago with modest operations and its net sales today have passed the symbolic threshold of 1 billion euros.
该集团30年前在中国成立，业务规模不大，如今净销售额已突破10亿欧元的象征性门槛。
The modest earnings pressure can be mitigated by China's strong recovery in power demand from 2020 and the continued improvement in line loss and operating efficiency, it said.
Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has been comparatively modest since China imposed regulations on capital outflows.
Meanwhile in the US, the passenger fleet will maintain modest growth in the long term, according to the FAA.
Modest growth and a solid plan for positive cash flow would have resulted in a successful IPO.
Its market size will maintain modest growth and reach $3.65 billion by 2022, as estimated by Euromonitor International.
"As one of the first multinational companies to enter China, PepsiCo has been in China for nearly 40 years and has been actively supporting a number of social welfare projects, such as Water Cellar for Mothers and PepsiCo Nutrition In Action, while providing a variety of delicious food, drinks and nutritional products to Chinese consumers, so as to make its modest contribution to the development of Chinese society," said Ram Krishnan, PepsiCo Global Chief Commercial Officer and CEO of the Greater China Region.
We are still, by Chinese standards, a relatively young company here, and we have a relatively modest presence.
The country's chocolate confectionery market rebounded in 2018 after dipping in 2015 and Euromonitor International estimate chocolate confectionery market size in China to maintain modest growth and reach $3.65 billion by 2022.
Xiaomi more than doubled its shipments, albeit from a modest base, just putting it in first place.
The California-based company shipped 41.3 million iPhones, representing modest growth of 0.7 percent from a year ago, according to data from market research company International Data Corp. "The continued growth of Huawei is impressive, to say the least, as is its ability to move into markets where, until recently, the brand was less unknown," said Ryan Reith, program vice-president with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers.
By contrast, revenues in Adidas' core market of Western Europe grew at a more modest pace of 5 percent, while sales in Russia fell by 16 percent due to challenging local market conditions.
He mentioned SAS also signed a deal but it was modest.
Zhang flew to Detroit from his headquarters in Hangzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, to celebrate with staff members, government officials and business partners what he called a crowning achievement for the company he started in 1984 with modest means.
For all its high-tech elements, Dayang had modest beginnings.
In its latest financial report, Caterpillar predicted a "modest recovery" in several of its businesses in 2017.
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday showed that consumer prices in 2023 maintained a mild upward trajectory, with the CPI rising by a modest 0.2 percent over the course of the year.
The recent downturn in consumer spending and the end of double-digit growth in China's retail sector, evidenced by a modest 3 percent increase in third-quarter retail sales and a mere 2 percent rise in the "Double 11" shopping festival sales, reflect a market in transition rather than in decline.
In the first half, the GDP of the city, often dubbed "factory of the world", recorded a modest year-on-year growth of 1.5 percent, significantly lower than the national average of 5.5 percent.
Although the growth in new orders for services in November remained modest, it recorded the highest level since September, which surveyed businesses attributed to improved market fundamentals, the report said, adding that insufficient clients, however, would still put a drag on its overall growth.
British think tank Oxford Economics said it expects China's 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 of its previous forecast of 5.1 percent, given the third quarter's modest out-performance.
Second, prices continue to remain modest.
DEPOUX: The Chinese government announced a modest target of China's GDP at around 5 percent in early 2023, which signaled challenges in the current conditions.
However, modest signs of recovery are seen in the previously declining China-US trade figures.
China's August inflation level will likely show a modest rise over July, with the country expected to see a "U-shaped recovery" in consumer inflation this year, analysts said on Friday.
But as the country's share of global trade in goods is already sizable, its future growth potential will be modest and will occur at a slower pace, said Zhao Guangbin, senior economist of PwC China.
Chao said that he expects modest improvements in economic growth through the second half of the year, given the additional policy easing and a bottoming out of pressures on exports.
In addition, over the past decade, the net interest margins of China's commercial banks have continued to narrow, with the return on capital declining sharply and share prices remaining modest.
The growth of property incomes is relatively modest.
China's exports of steel and aluminum products to the US stayed at a modest level.
Though foreign trade will be an important growth driver, expectations should remain modest.
The export structure of South Korea is relatively concentrated, as evidenced by robust automobile shipments and modest semiconductor exports.
Rural consumption capacity is modest, but it can grow and bring about consumption upgrade, Xu said.
Looking ahead to the second half of the year, the cumulative year-on-year growth rate of export value in the third quarter is likely to remain at a lower level, while a modest upward trend is expected in the fourth quarter, said Zheng Houcheng, chief macro economist at Yingda Securities Co Ltd.
"But even if China delivers modest growth, it is important to keep in mind that for the world economy, it is important that China grows, but also how it grows.
Its per capita economic indicators and living standards are only modest, and its development remains unbalanced and inadequate.
China's fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector showed signs of recovery in the first quarter, according to a report, and this trend is expected to continue in the rest of 2023 following modest growth last year.
"Although the first quarter's value growth rate might appear modest, the story is very different on a month-by-month basis.
For instance, carbon prices have been hovering at relatively modest levels — around 50 yuan ($7) to 60 yuan per metric ton with only minor fluctuations.
Looking ahead, given the stabilizing food prices and a potential modest rebound in fuel prices, but a highly elevated youth unemployment rate and continued disinflationary pressures in some core goods, Lu Ting, chief China economist at Nomura, said his team expects CPI to inch up only marginally to 0.3 percent year-on-year in June.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the country's exports logged a modest drop in May, partly due to a relatively high base figure recorded in the same period last year.
However, given the complex and severe international landscape and insufficient domestic demand, the internal driving forces for economic growth remain modest.
That said, with the complex and severe international landscape and the insufficient domestic demand, the internal driving force for economic growth remains modest, NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui told a news conference.
Nonetheless, the core CPI in March — a key indicator measuring macro supply and demand conditions — rose 0.7 percent year-on-year, which represents a modest rebound rather than a decline compared with January and February.
Recent data for China's industrial production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment all showed growth, if modest, over the year.
According to Loo, more modest industrial production reflects weaknesses in external demand.
Contribution to world economyWith modest growth target established and solid actions planned, the rosy prospect of the Chinese economy is noted across the world.
Ning Jizhe, vice-chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and also a political advisor, made the remarks right before the first session of the 14th National People's Congress on Sunday, when the Chinese government set a modest target of "around 5 percent" for 2023 economic growth.
Increased domestic demand in China should drive exports in goods of other economies, while a recovery in demand for foreign services — particularly for international travel — should provide a modest boost to global growth as well, according to the report.
Notably, China's food inflation rate was 2.8 percent and the cost of water, electricity and fuel rose a modest 3 percent in 2022, both significantly lower than in major Western economies, Liu said.
Once China emerges from COVID-19, the impact of this policy support will be visible, and a modest rebound in the housing sector is expected in 2023, she said.
They voiced optimism for a robust 2023 due to the implementation of optimized COVID-19 response measures, stronger policy support and a low comparison base, adding that the growth targets set by local governments point to modest national goals this year.
He estimates that, on average, he would earn about 50,000 yuan ($7,060) during each of these fairs, just enough to lead a modest life and keep his business in Pokhara, Nepal, running.
Tommy Wu, lead economist at Oxford Economics, a think tank, said the spillover effect of rising global food prices on China's domestic food costs will also likely be modest, given China's self-sufficiency in staple grains in the near term.
As for emerging industries and economic upgrading driving potential growth in China, Wang's team expects a modest acceleration in the country's technological progress over the next five years.
That modest supply boost amounts to just 0.4 percent of global demand over July and August and comes after several months in which the group has struggled to hit its production targets.
So, many research institutes and experts hold the view that China's export growth speed and global share will continue to rise, albeit at a modest pace.
From the perspective of both internal pressure and the external environment faced by China's economic growth, the target can by no means be reached only through modest measures, but greater efforts are needed to achieve that goal.
"It also noted that recent articles have highlighted that the tariffs are having a modest but real impact on inflationary pressures.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the slowing growth of the core CPI is mainly affected by base effects, saying the 1.1 percent gain in core CPI in February indicates that domestic demand is recovering at a modest pace.
China's GDP target could be a modest boost for the global economy, Bloomberg reported.
"Some modest additional stimulus this year would be welcome as the world is now facing increasing headwinds from geopolitical tensions," Bloomberg quoted David Dollar, a former US Treasury representative in Beijing now at the Brookings Institution.
Some experts, however, said the price shocks might have only modest impacts on China as the country's food supply is largely self-reliant while oil-related products have a limited weight in the basket of China's consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation.
The modest increase may only be understood as a brief recovery after the shock of the pandemic, YiMagazine reported.
FMCG volume gained 3.3 percent and its value rose 3.6 percent in the first nine months for a modest recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even if average selling prices, which remained depressed, have gained only 0.3 percent, said the China Shopper Report by Bain&Co and Kantar Worldpanel.
"Meanwhile, Rockwell said China's services trade has a lot of potential in the future and is an area where the Chinese economy has scope for growth, as China's growth in services trade is still relatively "modest" compared to goods trade.
Combined exports rose 88.9 percent to 1.68 billion yuan from a year earlier, while imports tripled to 1.65 billion yuan, with a modest trade surplus of 30 million yuan.
The 24-hour sales figure, or gross merchandise volume in e-commerce terms, was 540.3 billion yuan ($84.5 billion), a modest 8.45 percent year-on-year rise.
Factory rise in Oct modest; tax breaks, loan extensions, infra fillip may followGrowth-supportive policy measures in the form of tax breaks, loan extensions and infrastructure boosts are needed in the coming months to energize manufacturing activities and alleviate cost pressures on small businesses as the country's manufacturing activity data for October were modest, experts said.
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These are: modest target, rapid growth, stable housing market, rural development, more education and charitable donations.
Modest spending gains between January and March this year contributed to a 1.6 percent year-on-year growth, according to the first edition of China Shopper Report 2021, jointly commissioned by Bain & Company and Kantar Worldpanel.
"There was a modest improvement in investment appetite among SMEs in June, though this remains below the pre-pandemic levels.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the province's GDP saw a modest increase of 1.3 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2020.
For instance, the rise in industrial goods prices only had a modest effect on consumer prices in May.
The core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices and is seen as a better gauge of aggregate demand, grew by 0.9 percent in May, up from 0.7 percent in April, indicating that domestic demand is recovering but at a modest pace.
The Caixin PMI data also pointed to a modest drop in exports and a rise in cost pressures in the services sector.
But in many emerging-market economies where access to vaccines as well as the scope for government support are limited, the economic recovery would be modest, said the OECD.
On a sequential basis, the country's growth rate will peak between 6.5 percent and 7 percent on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis in the second quarter of the year, with a more modest but sustained 5.5 percent to 6 percent SAAR in the second half of this year and next year.
The consumer price index rose by a modest 0.9 percent last month.
Experts expect China's CPI levels to remain modest in the coming months.
The 0.4 percent increase in CPI in March is a modest one and was triggered by high gasoline prices, while prices of most other commodities remained stable, she said.
The 0.4 percent increase of CPI in March is also a modest one and the basic reason pushing such rise is the price of gasoline.
Other than falling pork prices, a modest recovery in domestic demand will also offset inflationary pressure, given that household income recovery is less than ideal while the job market has yet to fully stabilize, said Li Qilin, chief economist at Hongta Securities.
Louis Kuijs, head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, believes that pressure on yields and the spillover effects of a US strong stimulus would remain modest in China, but the potential volatility, especially in the stock market, should be watched.
The modest growth target is a sign that China may be looking beyond the immediate bump it will see in its pandemic recovery and charting a more stable economic path forward, business magazine Fortune said.
"Although there are many uncertainties stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese economy should very easily coast to the target growth rate," Tanaka said, adding that the 6 percent target is rather modest while 7 or 8 percent is more plausible.
Experts: Modest contraction in Caixin factory data for Feb cyclical, not a worryThe modest contraction seen in factory activity in February is purely a cyclical phenomenon and economic recovery momentum is still robust in China, experts said on Monday.
The US Federal Reserve is expected to take full measures to keep a modest policy to ensure a self-sustaining recovery.
The country is expected to normalize its macro policy in 2021 in a gradual and cautious manner, with only a modest slowdown in credit growth and a fiscal deficit target at about 3 percent of GDP, versus above 3.6 percent last year, Nomura Group economists said in a note.
After expanding at the quickest rate for over a year-and-a-half in November, exports saw modest growth in December.
Output in China is estimated to have rebounded last year at a faster-than-expected clip, with particular support from infrastructure spending, according to the World Bank, which predicted a modest 2 percent increase in China for 2020.
Sophistication, coverage of industry remain modest, says premierChina will adopt a host of policy measures to promote the scale and quality of the personal insurance sector and facilitate its steady development, in order to meet the public's diverse needs, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Wednesday.
That said, the sophistication and coverage of China's personal insurance sector remain modest.