At the top of the hill we pause for a rest.
我们在小山的顶部停下来休息。
Eric
paused to consider his answer.
埃里克停顿了一下考虑怎么回答。
Mary
paused the video and went to answer the phone.
玛丽停下录像机去接电话。
The event was paused for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
由于新冠肺炎大流行，该活动暂停了两年。
AkzoNobel, a Dutch paint and coating company, said three of its sites in Shanghai have already resumed production after operations were paused for a couple of weeks, while Evonik, a world leader in specialty chemicals, said it also entered into closed-loop production in Shanghai since late March, prior to the lockdown.
荷兰涂料和涂料公司阿克苏诺贝尔表示，在暂停运营几周后，其在上海的三个工厂已经恢复生产，而特种化学品领域的世界领导者赢创表示，自3月底封锁前以来，该公司也进入了上海的闭环生产。
Both Li and Viya, another heavyweight livestreaming saleswoman, decided to pause cooperation with the brand until the matter is properly settled.
李和另一位重量级直播女售货员Viya都决定暂停与该品牌的合作，直到事情得到妥善解决。
After three hearings held in three consecutive days, Judge Beeler finally hit pause on the Trump administration's WeChat ban.
Starbucks had paused new store openings in China in the first quarter of this year due to the pandemic.
It's not clear how he might implement the ban, but following the announcement, Microsoft has reportedly paused negotiations with TikTok's Chinese parent company Byte-Dance to buy its US operations.
Inspur's comments came after Intel said it temporarily paused shipments to Inspur to comply with the US government's new export regulations.
The company's comments came after Intel said it had temporarily paused shipments to Inspur to comply with the US government's new export regulations.
In China, Mizone sales slowed down at a steep double-digit rate in a context of paused investments in the quarter, ahead of the repositioning plan initially set for March 2020 to revitalize the brand.
Juul has agreed to pause its marketing effort as regulators claim the company was trying to push its products on teens.
Marc Allera, chief executive of EE, told the paper the company had "paused" the launch of Huawei's 5G phones because the Chinese tech company did not have the "surety of service" it needed to offer long-term contracts.
The company said China’s move to pause approving new games for the App Store last year is affecting revenue in the segment.
It's an invitation to pause for an exceptional cup of illy brand coffee, expertly brewed by the master barista during the day, or accompanied by the signature fusion of éclairs made in classic French style with the featured flavor of Hangzhou longjing tea, a unique taste sensation that will help guests discover the feel of the local area.
It is quite natural after periods of rapid growth there would be a pause.
When asked whether they would trade stability to risk starting a business again, all the interviewees paused for a long time, but the answer, ultimately and consistently, was yes.
Sun said that in the near term the company plans to pause or slow down the acquisition pace, speed up deleveraging and reduce the debt ratio in a bid to ensure a healthy and stable Sunac.
It is now the right time for China to roll out a new round of economic stimulus, with private investment a key focus, as faltering recovery momentum has intensified employment pressures while the United States has paused interest rate hikes, experts said on Thursday.
There are five takeaways regarding the economic situation this year — China will once again lead the world in terms of economic recovery; the real estate market is witnessing some green shoots of resurgence; the stock market is expected to witness a structural bull market; the country will maintain an accommodative monetary policy; the US Federal Reserve will likely pause rate hikes and will start cutting interest rates going forward.
Pause possible, but evolution to continue, which benefits consumers, participants sayBusiness leaders and experts spoke about the future of globalization at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, as the global economy continued to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising oil prices and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
However, taking the current global situation into account, there might be a temporary pause of globalization, said Tassel, who added that it is the responsibility of leaders to continue to promote globalization, as it is a core interest of consumers.
However, it has also given us an opportunity to pause and rethink our future direction.
For example, the strained relations between the two countries, a slowdown in visa processing and a decline in the number of Chinese students and visitors in the United States crimped exports of services to China even before COVID-19 led to a pause for the travel industry.
"The unexpected novel coronavirus pandemic paused the economy in early 2020, which then hit the job market hard, causing the unemployment rate to climb and the population of laid-off workers to increase.
The global economy paused virtually overnight and countries across the world grappled with the fight against the virus.
Reforms include granting wider access, aligning with international practicesFor Martin Papp, a US entrepreneur who founded a tea startup in China, the COVID-19 pandemic has pressed a pause button on many of his plans.
After a short pause in business due to the pandemic, the Yiwu International Trade Market has sprung back to life as the outbreak has been largely contained in China.
Maersk Line has decided that due to safety considerations, all vessels previously paused and due to sail through the region, will now be rerouted around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, the Danish company said in a statement on Tuesday.
In an open letter late last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a group of AI experts and industry executives called for a six-month pause in developing language models more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.
Chinese technology entrepreneur Zhou Hongyi on Thursday dismissed concerns raised by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other scientists in an open letter a day earlier calling for a six-month pause in the development of language models more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.
The remarks came after Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives issued an open letter that urges for a half-year pause in the development of language models that are more advanced than OpenAI's GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.
CHANGSHA — Excavator operator Xu Zhengtao worked through Spring Festival without pause at a commercial real estate construction project in Central China's Hubei province.
"Despite a pause in the nuclear sector in many other countries, China's nuclear sector has been steadily moving forward with the country's independent research and manufacturing in the industry continuing to increase.
However, few people pause to consider where their pork comes from, and even fewer are aware that to meet growing demand, the country imports boar semen and pigs for breeding.
This represented a pause of the so-called "premiumization" trend witnessed in China's FMCG landscape in the past few years, which generally refers to higher spending for quality items.
Even though the coronavirus pandemic forced these brands to hit the pause button for two months, it has failed to dent their overall expansion ambitions.
Nan said the novel coronavirus outbreak has caused a pause in operations for most photovoltaic power generation plants.
After a long pause, which lasted from Jan 26 to Feb 20, the complex now has staff in place to remind customers of wearing masks and keeping a distance from each other, either within the store or at pickup points at the local airport.
"The epidemic pressed a pause button for the tourism industry, which is an opportunity for the enterprises to reflect and recharge," said Wang, noting that with the collective efforts of enterprises and the government, the tourism industry is sure to revive after the epidemic.
On July 17, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, along with Jensen Huang from Nvidia and Cristiano Amon from Qualcomm, advised the Biden administration that the administration should not only assess the effects of restricting exports to China but also consider a pause before enacting any new measures.
Back in March, an open letter to “pause giant AI experiments” for at least six months garnered 31,810 supporting signatures from scientists, academics, technology leaders, and civic activists.
Leading Chinese tech companies said on Thursday that they would not like to see a pause or slowdown in the game-changing GPT-4 technology, but instead vowed more efforts to develop responsible artificial intelligence to balance benefits and risks.
However, the outbreak of the pandemic has forced the company to press pause on that plan, according to a Gofun executive.
"During the pause, workers can choose to use vacation days or stay home without pay," Internet media outlet Buzzfeed reported.
Tesla had a similar production pause in February.
The latest pause comes just days after Musk told CBS that he was feeling optimistic about his ability to speed up production and had a "clear understanding of the path out of (production) hell.
Counterpoint Research also said new TWS models are released without pause with various features and functions, including noise cancellation, bio-sensing, waterproofing and integrated AI voice assistants in broader price ranges from low-cost entry level to high-end premium options.
Yu, whose consumer business group is expected to suffer most from the chip restrictions, said many people thought that Huawei would have no choice but to press the pause or stop button on its phone businesses.
"Though the pandemic has pressed a pause button on many aspects of our lives, it accelerates the digitalization trend in society and fuel the integration of AI and healthcare," Liang Yali, vice-president of the sales, marketing and communications group at Intel, said.
According to him, the earbuds deliver fantastic sound quality, support double-tap to pause music and allow him to take phone calls and talk to Apple's voice-activated digital assistant Siri.
The device delivers fantastic sound quality, supports double-tap to pause music and allows taking phone calls and talking to Apple's voice-activated digital assistant Siri, Zhang said.
Feng Lin, a senior analyst at Golden Credit Rating, explained that previous market expectations for the US Federal Reserve to pause interest rate hikes in June and even lower the benchmark interest rate have been undergoing some changes recently.
"As the market expectation for the US Federal Reserve to pause interest rate hikes has been piling up, the US dollar will thus be deprived of policy support, which will pillar the gold price," he added.
In April, the US dollar index, which gauges the greenback's value relative to a basket of currencies, fell by 0.91 percent to 101.66 as the market bet on a nearing pause of the US Federal Reserve's tightening, according to market tracker Wind Info.
China's monetary policy will have more flexibility to accommodate the nation's ongoing economic recovery in the coming months as the United States' Federal Reserve has implied a rate hike pause, experts said on Thursday.
Instead, the Fed said it will determine the extent to which additional policy firming may be appropriate, a significant change in wording that has made most analysts forecast a rate hike pause in June, with some even foreseeing the possibility of a rate cut by the end of the year.
"With the Fed taking a tightening pause, relevant negative spillover on China will fade and expand the scope for the country's monetary policy to support economic recovery," Zhong said.
Lou Feipeng, a researcher at the Postal Savings Bank of China, agreed, saying that the Fed's tightening pause would help ease the depreciation pressure on the renminbi because of the two countries' monetary policy divergence, giving China's monetary policy more flexibility.
On March 8, Canada's central bank was the first to announce a pause in interest rate hikes.
Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco, a global investment management company, said the strength of the US dollar is expected to further fade as the Fed turns less aggressive in tightening and may pause rate hikes in the first half of 2023.
Market experts said they now expect a pause from such aggressive monetary tightening as the Fed said in its statement on Wednesday it "will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic financial developments".
Although the downtrend paused temporarily in mid-July, the renminbi started to weaken again a month later.
Washington's Monday announcement to pause new tariffs on solar imports for two years may have lifted the prices of these A shares, said industry experts.
First of all, when everyone else is rushing into the stock market or pouring money into one "hot" sector, it is always wise to pause and check the fundamentals.
The stable rates mark a pause by the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, in reducing interest rates to stabilize the economy, as the one-year LPR has dropped by two consecutive months in December and January by 0.15 percentage point in total.
Experts said the pause will likely end soon with more easing measures, despite the fact that the US Fed is expected to raise interest rates as early as March, which is typically deemed an impediment for other central banks to launch monetary easing.
However, trading will be suspended for 10 minutes if a company's price is up by 30 percent from the opening quotation, and paused for another 10 minutes if the price is up a total of 60 percent.
But trading will be suspended for 10 minutes if the company's price is up by 30 percent from the opening quotation and paused for another 10 minutes if the price is by up 60 percent in total.
The rally in gold prices paused on Tuesday amid steady progress in COVID-19 vaccines and rebounding US economic data.
But Widmer also pointed out that the gold rally has only hit a pause and the bank's $3,000 an ounce 18-month target remains unchanged.
Targeted easing rather than stimulus to be the top priority of central bankCentral banks of the two largest economies in the world may adopt different strategies to sustain growth in the ensuing months, with China likely to see a pause in further monetary easing, while the United States may bank on more stimulus to sustain the momentum, experts said.
"What we see from the PBOC is a pause in further loosening of the monetary policy, as indicated by the interest rate cut stoppages, since the economy has seen a strong recovery and the equity market has performed relatively well," he said.
The People's Bank of China lowered the rate via its open-market operations, after a pause starting Feb 17.
Before the statement from the top leadership, financial regulators had been making efforts in putting financial opening-up policies into place "without a pause" during the epidemic, according to the People's Bank of China, the central bank.
"Since the epidemic broke out, the financial system has not only spared no efforts to support epidemic control and work resumption, but continued putting financial opening-up measures into place without a pause," PBOC Vice-Governor Chen Yulu said.
The People's Bank of China restarted open market operations after a 15-day pause, adding 100 billion yuan through 14-day reverse repurchases in the banking system, at an interest rate of 2.65 percent, it reported in a statement.
The majority of IPO allocations will go to institutional investors, and there are no hard limits on trading in the first five days－although circuit breakers can lead to a temporary pause in trading.
The PBOC paused cash injections via reverse repo for 12 consecutive days as of Tuesday, as the current banking liquidity is at "a relatively high level", said a statement on the bank's website.
As the central bank has taken a pause in monetary easing, fiscal policy should remain proactive to stabilize economic growth and ensure the recent rebound is not just a seasonal fluke, said economists.
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell recently said the Fed would be patient on rate hikes, indicating a pause.
Boom in China's consumer loan securitization could pause this year as regulators target lenders' high debt levels and limited asset disclosure.
Its road to listing paused as the CSRC announced the next day to suspend IPO approvals amid a time of market turbulence.
Drivers in the downtown area stopped their cars and sounded their horns, while pedestrians paused for a minute of silence in remembrance of the victims.