Mary was
rigid with fear.
玛丽害怕得全身僵住了。
Lisa was a fairly
rigid person who had strong religious views.
丽萨相当顽固，宗教观念极强。
"However, the completion of its debt restructuring can only temporarily alleviate Sunac's pressure of rigid debt repayments and associated risks are not fully discharged yet.
“然而，完成债务重组只能暂时缓解苏纳克刚性偿债的压力，相关风险尚未完全释放。
City-specific targeted policies should be adopted to better support both rigid housing and housing improvement demands, the conference statement said.
会议声明称，应采取针对城市的有针对性的政策，更好地支持刚性住房和住房改善需求。
Specifically, unstandardized software development results in efficiency variation and unsatisfactory transition from one procedure to another, thus delaying delivery; the various tools that come with the digital transformation of healthcare are similar to each other and are underperformers in terms of stability, user experience, automation as well as application value; without a unified platform and uniform standards, software development is largely a self-contained, rigid and fragmented process, which is unsustainable in the long run.
具体而言，不标准的软件开发会导致效率变化和从一个程序到另一个程序的过渡不令人满意，从而延迟交付；医疗保健数字化转型带来的各种工具彼此相似，在稳定性、用户体验、自动化以及应用价值方面表现不佳；如果没有统一的平台和统一的标准，软件开发在很大程度上是一个独立、僵化和碎片化的过程，从长远来看是不可持续的。
Zhou Yanlong, Party chief, board director and general manager of China Quanjude Group, who has also been a catering sector expert for over a decade, said, "I firmly believe that demand in China's catering industry is rigid and tremendous, and the development of the industry is unstoppable.
中国全聚德集团党委书记、董事、总经理周延龙也是一位十多年的餐饮行业专家，他说：“我坚信，中国餐饮业的需求是刚性的、巨大的，行业的发展势不可挡。
"Endoscopes are an indispensable tool for minimally invasive surgical procedures and can be classified into two types — rigid endoscopes and flexible endoscopes.
“内窥镜是微创手术不可或缺的工具，可分为两种类型——刚性内窥镜和柔性内窥镜。
Karl Storz has been a leading supplier of rigid endoscopes both globally and in China, where it has a market share of more than 40 percent.
Karl Storz一直是全球和中国刚性内窥镜的领先供应商，在中国的市场份额超过40%。
He believes the rigid demand is still very strong.
他认为，刚性需求仍然非常强劲。
The CCB will continue to stabilize the supply of credit to the real estate sector, better meet the rigid and upgraded demand for housing, and keep stepping up support for government-subsidized rental housing.
建行将继续稳定房地产信贷供应，更好地满足刚性和升级型住房需求，继续加大对政府补贴租赁住房的支持力度。
The constant refinement of the industrial chain is another reason for the rigid growth of the sector.
产业链的不断细化是该行业刚性增长的另一个原因。
Large quantities of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) are hence used worldwide as a raw material for making rigid polyurethane foam, a very effective insulation material for buildings and refrigerators.
因此，全球范围内大量使用亚甲基二苯二异氰酸酯（MDI）作为制造硬质聚氨酯泡沫的原材料，硬质聚氨酯泡沫是建筑和冰箱的一种非常有效的隔热材料。
"The increasing need is not just about product quantity but a more rigid requirement in specializing in sports as people put more attention on fitness.
“随着人们越来越注重健身，人们对体育专业的需求不仅在于产品数量，还在于更严格的要求。
Wang Kai, founder and CEO of Shanghai-based OrigiMed, a leading precision medicine company, said: "There are vast unmet rigid demands from Chinese cancer patients.
Mondelez has announced a string of plans such as using 100 percent packaging designed to be recyclable and 25 percent reduction in the use of virgin rigid plastic by 2025.
Amethystum believes that down the road, there will be rigid demand for optical storage, which uses lasers to store and retrieve data from optical media such as disks.
"We believe that this scale will at least hit tens of billions of dollars, as more and more children needs online education, not to mention that learning math is a rigid demand," Yu said.
To Lu, the foray into overseas markets represents natural evolution, as online solutions in the early education sector address a rigid demand from young parents.
But the past 10 years saw it lag far behind due to its rigid mechanism.
Faris Saah, senior lecturer at Harvard University and managing partner of consulting firm Quansoo Partners, told Xinhua that with the regulatory overreach of the Dodd-Frank Act enacted after the 2008 crisis when panic was prevailing, some improvements may be needed to ensure it continues to play its oversight role and unwinds the shackles of rules that are too rigid and stifle growth.
"It could be seen as less rigid and formal as other early-year curriculums around the world.
“It could be seen as less rigid and formal as other early-year curriculums around the world.
The company cash had reached approximately 92.4 billion yuan ($14 billion) and rigid interest-bearing liabilities due in the second half of the year will be less than 15.8 billion yuan.
Lin said that it was easy for such companies to get slack and rigid if they did not keep innovating.
Specifically, efforts will be made to spur auto purchases and private investment, as well as meet residents' rigid and improved housing demand.
China International Capital Corporation said in a report that movies are a comparative rigid demand.
There are more than 300 million such new urban residents, and they have rigid demand for jobs, starting up businesses, renting or buying homes, child education, childcare and eldercare, said Guo Shuqing, chairman of the CBIRC, at a news conference earlier this month.
The rigid on-grid power price mechanism, under which the power price is allowed to fluctuate only within a certain range, exacerbated the power shortage as coal-fired power plants have little incentives to produce in light of soaring coal prices.
"And the five-year plan for the first time doesn't have an average growth target so it shows you continued de-emphasis on hitting rigid GDP targets and instead more of a priority on quality," Hirson told CNBC on Thursday.
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted long-term pressure on the global job market, trade and cross-border activities, the rigid two-way goods demand between China and Europe has not only raised the service frequency and trade value of the China-Europe freight train services but also accelerated the frequency of talks on the China-EU investment treaty.
However, strict, even rigid, implementation of regulatory policies should ensure stability.
The bridge, mainly built by China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp — a China Railway Construction Corp unit — stretches 1.73 km and features a 325-meter continuous rigid frame beam crossing over the river, a significant technical and construction feat, said Yi Jun, chief engineer with CR24.
The overall rigid demand for residential housing and the needs of those who wish to improve their housing conditions in China remained sufficient, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) told a press conference Wednesday.
The eased down payment rules will help better satisfy the rigid housing demand and needs of those who wish to improve their housing conditions, experts said.
"Another trend is that residential housing used to primarily focus on meeting the rigid needs of first-time homebuyers, but in the future, the real estate emphasis in China will shift towards addressing the demand for improved housing, he said.
The ministry added that this policy will enable more home buyers to enjoy reduced down payment ratios and lowered mortgage lending rates, help reduce house purchase costs for residents, and better meet the rigid housing demand and needs of those who wish to improve their housing conditions through a property sale and repurchase process.
In Jinhua, central Zhejiang, the local authorities announced on Thursday that starting three days later, the maximum loan amount of the housing provident fund will be marginally increased, further enhancing support for home purchases and better meeting the rigid and improved housing needs of Jinhua's residents, promoting the healthy and stable development of the local real estate market.
Releasing rigid and improving housing demand are key measures to promoting the healthy and sustainable development of real estate market.
"We expect the recovery of the property market to adhere to the principle that housing is for living in, not for speculation, satisfy people's rigid housing demand and demand for housing improvement, avoid sharp ups and downs in the market, and promote high-quality development of the sector," he added.
"Besides restrictions on some offline consumption scenarios and sales channels due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the psychology of some consumers has changed since the pandemic, and they have been focusing more on purchasing daily necessities with rigid demand.
The meeting stressed that policies supporting homebuyers' rigid demand or improving housing demand should be implemented based on the situation of different cities.
On Aug 24, the State Council, China's Cabinet, raised the "one city, one policy" approach by allowing local governments to take respective measures to support the rigid and upgraded housing demand.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic raised rigid demand for vaccine research and development, as well as nucleic acid tests, while the importation of medical consumables was affected due to the COVID-19, domestic consumable suppliers have become a safe choice," Li said.
The official said that in the next stage, the CBIRC will effectively satisfy reasonable financing needs of real estate companies, give substantial support to the construction of rental homes, support mergers, acquisitions and the restructuring of housing projects, and better meet the rigid and upgraded demand for housing with a focus on new urbanites and young people living in cities and towns.
In my view, China's housing regulations are created for three purposes－to prevent risks, to satisfy rigid and rational homebuying demand, and to maintain the stable development of the property market.
Second, I think most demand in the real estate market over the past few years has evinced rigid demand for first homes or better homes.
On April 29, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed that local governments roll out policies based on local realities to support rigid demand for housing or for housing upgrades.
"Unlike crude oil, demand for gold is not rigid and sources of gold imports are diversified.
Li Chenxi, a partner of Enshe (Hangzhou) Health Management Co Ltd, offered suggestions for domestic companies: "They should capture rigid demand and develop a single point of advantage.
The interest rate cut is part of the financial system's support in backing rigid demand and home buying requirements for better living, said Chen Sheng, president of the China Real Estate Data Academy.
"Such encouragement in rigid and rational demand is likely to spread to more cities, be they first- and second-tier, or even lower-tier cities," Chen said.
"Chen and Li are just two examples of "rigid demand" homebuyers in the nation's real estate market, where a tight grip is kept on speculative activities and support is given to rational home buying.
"Compact digital cameras have been replaced by smartphones, while the demand for single-lens reflex cameras is not rigid.
The cotton produced in Xinjiang is recognized as a high-quality natural fiber raw material, and it meets the rigid consumption demand for cotton textiles and clothing globally, the statement said.
Wang Kai, founder and CEO of OrigiMed, said: "There are vast, unmet, rigid demands from Chinese cancer patients.
Yu explained that reading is a rigid demand in high-income markets such as Europe and the US.
Financial institutions should meet the reasonable financing needs of quality property developers and residents' rigid demand, as well as their need for upgraded dwellings, and these institutions should also provide reasonable financial support based on managed risk control.
Under the central government's keynote guideline of "housing is for living in, not for speculation", speculative demand in smaller cities will retreat once the market trend changes, and home prices will decline accordingly as rigid demand fails to support current price levels.
"Along with the financing tweaks to ease credit for genuine homebuyers and measures to encourage rigid home demand, existing policies are expected to gradually take effect and further stabilize the home market," said Yan, adding that the sales recovery in some Chinese cities will help stabilize the home price index in November.
Zhou Jun, CEO of Berry Oncology, said the early cancer screening industry is a billion dollar market under rapid development, not only because early cancer screening demand is rigid for many kinds of cancer, but also because the sector has received serious attention from the government, investors, and healthcare enterprises.
With the promotion of the new type of urbanization and improvement of people's living standards, energy demand in the next five years is expected to maintain rigid growth, while the energy consumption structure will highlight green and low-carbon, it said in the report.
Between 2021 and 2025, with the promotion of the new type of urbanization and improvement of people's living standards, energy demand will maintain rigid growth, the report said, adding the energy consumption structure will highlight "green" and "low-carbon".
Much of the rigid demand has been digested in previous months, which means there would be less demand for pre-owned homes in the coming months, said Xu.
There is rigid demand for such equipment, and I'm bullish on its growth potential," said Xia Haiyun, chief scientist at Beijing ZKYA and a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China.
The seemingly complicated rules rolled out in Shanghai recently can effectively ensure houses in this megacity be allocated to families with rigid needs.
The SSE's Main Board and SME Board have played a positive role in serving the real economy, but problems have emerged, including the two boards becoming similar and the Main Board's company structure becoming rigid, Pi said at a news conference.
By November, 32 cities had announced tighter property market regulations and the central government made the monetary requirements even more rigid to keep prices from rising, said Zhang Dawei, chief analyst at Centaline Property Agency Ltd.
"We believe that the industry will achieve a scale of tens of billions of dollars as more children are opting for online education, with learning mathematics skills a rigid demand," said Yu Dachuan, co-founder and president of VIPThink.
According to JLL data, benefiting from stable and rigid demand, rents in Financial Street fell only once, during the Global Financial Crisis in 2009.
Its outstanding performance resulted from its unique flights and rigid travel demand even during the contagion.
"Brands or companies affected by the epidemic need to justify their rigid expenditure first and had to cut costs in areas like advertising and marketing," Zhang Guohua, head of the China Advertising Association, said via Q&A platform Zhihu.
It has a strong ability to resist risks, and consumers have a rigid demand for household appliance products.
In China's densely populated cities, there is a rigid demand for taking care of the babies and the elderly," Chen said.
"Property developers' promotions are likely to extend by then, along with supportive policy and lower credit costs for rigid homebuyers," he explained.
"Medical aesthetics consumption is a rigid demand.
The government's favorable policies promote the transition from examination-oriented education to quality education, and customers' needs become rigid demand," said the report.
The real estate data published on Monday, including home prices, real estate investment, and sales, showed the sector is stabilizing and continuing to grow amid ongoing urbanization, rigid demand from first time buyers and those looking for better living conditions, said Mao Shengyong, spokesman of the National Bureau of Statistics.
House developers may maintain the price of new houses at a certain level due to rigid costs and sales strategies, but second-hand houses are supplied by individuals, and they are more sensitive to market information.
He said existing rigid structures should be replaced by a dynamic network with maximum risk visibility and increased operational agility.
Experts said it usually takes between seven to ten years to implement new technologies in the often rigid car industry.
The stance is part of the efforts to implement city-specific and differentiated housing credit policies and to better meet residents' rigid and improved housing demand, according to the meeting jointly held by the central bank and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on the work for the second half of the year.
Liu also noted that fiscal policy tools should be brought into better play in supporting both rigid demand for housing and housing improvement and boosting the stable development of the real estate market.
He also noted that fiscal policy tools shall be brought into better play in supporting both rigid demand for housing and for housing improvement and boost the stable development of the real estate market.
The country must innovate products and services to meet reasonable financial demand derived from the consumption of bulk commodities and the rigid and upgraded demand for housing, tap the potential of consumption by seniors and promote better development of new types of consumption," said Lou Feipeng, senior economist at Postal Savings Bank of China.
Its balance of residential mortgages was 6.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 110 billion yuan from the end of last year, strongly supporting rigid and improving housing demands.
The bank will also strengthen financial services for the manufacturing sector and sci-tech innovation companies, and give credit support to the demand for rigid and upgraded housing, Gu said.
They have rigid demand for jobs, starting up businesses, renting or buying homes, child education, childcare and eldercare, according to the regulator.
Cheng Jiajun, president of the banking industry wealth management registration and custody center, which is under China Central Depository& Clearing Co Ltd, said on March 15 that yields in products will naturally go up and down according to overall market performance as rigid payment of WMPs is no longer valid.
The new asset management regulations released in April 2018 said WMPs contracts should not state any promise on capital preservation or guaranteed gains, removing the possibility of rigid payments.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst with China Everbright Bank, said individual investors should be aware of the transition of WMPs breaking rigid payments.
Taking into account the central regulator's tighter grip on property market speculation and the crackdown on the rigid payment of asset management products, there is a lack of investment targets in China.
The CBIRC urged banking institutions to provide differentiated support to people with rigid demand in terms of down payment ratios and interest rates.
The white paper pointed out Chinese people are still used to a financial management model of rigid payment guaranteeing capital and income, with 70 percent rejecting moves with financial risks.
"Attaching great importance to this issue, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, and regulatory authorities have put the maintenance of financial stability at the top of their list of priorities, which also include reducing moral hazards, cracking down on shadow banking activities, and abstaining from providing implicit guarantees and making rigid repayments.
"In April 2018, the People's Bank of China and three other financial regulators issued the guidance on the asset management business of financial institutions to address problems like regulatory arbitrage, multi-level nesting of WMPs, rigid payments, and circumvention of financial regulations.
Establishing wealth management subsidiaries will help improve the overall level of valuation for banks by releasing risks associated with implicit guarantees and rigid redemption for banks' wealth management products.
However, many banks are taking advantage of policy tightening to raise mortgage rates to keep demand rigid, which is against the initial goal of these policies, Zhang said.
Analysts said there was unlikely to be any major rebound in the M2 growth during the second half of the year given that there would be no major changes in the nation's rigid fiscal stance.
The plan comes at a time when the central government is looking to curb speculative behavior in the housing market, tighten credit to curb risks and meet the "rigid" but solid residential housing demand of first-time buyers.
Expected slower growth of fiscal revenue and rising demand for national defense, infrastructure and rigid spending willxa0put higher downward pressure on the government’s repayment capacity, according to the agency.
A guidance released in November by a number of authorities, including the banking regulator and the securities regulator in China, said that the authorities hope to remove "rigid payments", or bailouts for asset management products, which have been widely observed in the past years.
The guidance said the authorities hope to remove rigid repayment for asset management products by mid-2019, which means asset managers will not be allowed to employ their own funds to make payments for investment products that have sustained losses.