Eric saw the driver slump over the wheel.
埃里克看见司机一头栽在了方向盘上。
Mary
slumped to her knees.
玛丽扑通一声跪在地上。
The economy is in the midst of a deep slump.
经济正深陷衰退之中。
He's been slumping in his grades lately.
他最近的成绩有所下滑。
The stock market experienced a sudden slump after the bank's collapse.
银行倒闭后，股市突然大幅下跌。
She was feeling a post-lunch energy slump and decided to take a quick nap.
她感到午后精力低落，决定小憩一会儿。
The sales figures for this quarter have
slumped significantly.
本季度的销售数字大幅下滑。
His confidence took a hit after the slump in his performance.
由于表现下滑，他的自信心受到了打击。
The company's profits have
slumped due to increased competition.
由于竞争加剧，公司的利润下降了。
The once-thriving industry has been in a slump for years.
曾经繁荣的行业已经低迷了好几年。
The team was in a mid-season slump, losing game after game.
这支球队在赛季中期陷入了连败的困境。
After the slump, she found new motivation to work harder and turn things around.
在经历了低谷之后，她找到了新的动力去更努力工作，以扭转局面。
The slump was partly due to investor sentiment that the EV business may need heavy investment, experts said.
专家表示，经济下滑的部分原因是投资者认为电动汽车业务可能需要大量投资。
The comments came as major smartphone makers are ramping up efforts to expand their presence in the burgeoning foldables segment, in an effort to revive the larger smartphone market that has been mired in a sales slump amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
在发表上述言论之际，主要智能手机制造商正在加紧努力，扩大其在蓬勃发展的可折叠手机领域的业务，以重振在新冠肺炎疫情期间陷入销售低迷的更大智能手机市场。
Due to high energy and raw materials prices, earnings in the third quarter (Q3) of the year slumped by 29 percent.
由于能源和原材料价格高企，今年第三季度的收益下降了29%。
The company's net profit attributable to shareholders slumped by 38 percent to 25.416 billion yuan due to the slow down economic growth and the sluggish capital market in the first half.
由于上半年经济增长放缓和资本市场低迷，该公司股东应占净利润暴跌38%，至254.16亿元。
Among them, prices for hip joints plummeted to 7,000 yuan from 35,000 yuan, while knee joints slumped to 5,000 yuan from 32,000 yuan.
其中，髋关节价格从3.5万元骤降至7000元，膝关节价格从3.2万元暴跌至5000元。
"The Central Economic Work Conference in December said the economy is faced with the threefold pressures of contracting demand, supply slump and weakening expectations.
“12月的中央经济工作会议表示，经济面临需求收缩、供应下滑和预期减弱的三重压力。
China Evergrande attributed the profit slump to the falling property sales price as well as rising cost.
中国恒大将利润暴跌归咎于房地产销售价格下跌以及成本上升。
Although turnover rose 18.65 percent year-on-year to 2.19 billion yuan ($337 million), net profit slumped 59.77 percent to 536 million yuan due to lowered valuations of all of its properties in China, resulting in just 0.1 yuan in earnings per share.
尽管年营业额同比增长18.65%，达到21.9亿元人民币（约合3.37亿美元），但由于在中国的所有房产估值降低，导致净利润骤降59.77%，仅达5.36亿元。这使得每股收益仅有0.1元人民币。这个结果表明，尽管公司的业务量有所增加，但因资产估值的下降，其盈利能力受到了严重影响。
The slump came after the United States restrictions on Huawei cut its access to crucial technical components for its mobile phone business.
这一困境发生在美国对华为的限制切断了其手机业务的关键技术组件供应之后。
This showcases the two channels' resilience in combating the outbreak and bouncing back from the slump, said Wen.
这表明这两个频道在应对疫情和从低谷反弹方面表现出韧性，温说。
China's total imports and exports of goods expanded 1.9 percent year-on-year to 32.16 trillion yuan (about $4.94 trillion) last year, hitting a record high despite a worldwide slump in shipments.
去年，中国货物贸易进出口总值达到32.16万亿元人民币(约4.94万亿美元)，同比增长1.9%，创历史新高，尽管全球发货量出现下滑。
The China Gold Association also said gold purchases have gradually recovered, due to the country's effective COVID-19 epidemic controls and economic recovery, after the country witnessed a 48.2 percent slump in the first quarter of 2020.
中国黄金协会还表示，由于中国有效控制了新冠疫情并实现了经济复苏，黄金购买量已逐渐恢复。2020年第一季度，中国的黄金购买量曾锐减48.2%。
"Although sales slumped during the first half of this year due to COVID disruptions, the second half saw a recovery on the back of robust domestic consumption due to limited outbound travel that invariably spurs shopping abroad.
尽管今年上半年由于COVID-19的干扰销售额出现下滑，但下半年由于出境旅行受限导致国内消费强劲，从而刺激了境外购物，销售出现了复苏。
As the country's economy continues to bounce back from the COVID-19 slump, ad spending by businesses have also picked up.
随着国家经济从COVID-19冲击中持续复苏，企业广告支出也有所增加。
The company attributed the upsurge of net profit, despite the dual impacts of plummeting oil prices and a demand slump amid the COVID-19 outbreak, to effective cost control and high-quality development.
该公司表示，尽管受到油价暴跌和COVID-19疫情导致的需求疲软的双重影响，但其净利润仍实现增长，这主要得益于有效的成本控制和高质量发展。
Despite the slump in dine-in services, the company's revenue from takeaway food business rose 124 percent year on year in H1, accounting for 4.2 percent of the total revenue, according to the report.
The net debt ratio of the company slumped 23 percentage points in the first half of 2020 to 149 percent.
The company cited the plummeting oil price and demand slump amid the COVID-19 outbreak for the drop in revenue.
"A years-long slump in the global smartphone market -- as a lack of innovation leads people to hang on to their old models longer -- has thinned the ranks of sellers, and the coronavirus pandemic has further damped demand.
The slump was led by a 20-percent fall in advertising revenue to $310 million, primarily due the adverse effect of the coronavirus epidemic on the overall advertising demand, Sina said.
According to data from China Union Pay, the number of Webbased transactions rose by 46.8 percent during the peak period of the outbreak from Jan 24-30, indicating resilience against the overall consumption slump.
Chinese aviation data and solution provider AirSavvi said that although the ARJ21 accounted for just 1 percent of the global regional flights between April 1 and April 20, the aircraft maintained stable flights vis-a-vis other comparable aircraft, which experienced a slump of 60 percent to 80 percent.
It is similar to the scenario in 2003, when Chen Tianqiao's Shengda Game company slumped because the internet cafe lost traffic, Liang Jianzhang's Ctrip was on the edge of bankruptcy because of the sharp decline in orders, and Yu Minhong's New Oriental took loans from friends because their cash flow completely dried up.
A marquee name like Alibaba's could draw investors and boost trading liquidity for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd, which just incurred its biggest profit slump in more than three years.
"There are many challenges that the company faces like weak oil prices, uncertainties from the global oil market and the problem of overcapacity that China's chemical industry has been facing, which are the possible reasons for the slump in its net profit," Lin added.
The company shut an assembly plant in Missouri last year as sales in the US slumped.
On Wednesday, Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd said its net profit slumped 45.7 percent year-on-year to 2.7 billion yuan in the first quarter.
Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd saw its net profit slump 45.7 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019 amid falling profit margins.
NEW YORK - Uxin Ltd, a Chinese leading used car e-commerce platform, issued late Tuesday a responding statement after its shares slumped over 36 percent around market close, as investors were spooked by an alarming analytical report.
The Asian giant was followed by South Korea at 6.7 percent, while Russia sales slumped 14.3 percent, North America added 7.6 percent, and trends varied in the European Union, the Moda Research Center study showed.
Despite the stock market slump and economic uncertainties, China is still home to the largest number of dollar billionaires and contributed the most new faces to the Hurun Global Rich List unveiled on Tuesday.
Chinese entrepreneurs have faced difficulties for their businesses over the past 12 months given the slump of the A-share market and the 6 percent drop in the Chinese yuan against the US dollar.
Gree's shares slumped more than 3 percent when trading started on Thursday.
Analysts and investors have been increasingly bearish on Apple stock amid its worst slump in more than a decade.
Companies related to the internet industry have seen the biggest slump.
Shares of Canada Goose Holdings Inc, the maker of premium parkas, slumped almost 20 percent during the past week on the Nasdaq.
XCMG converted the slump into an opportunity to review its weaknesses and come up with corresponding solutions.
According to ForwardKeys, a global travel intelligence analyst, Chinese weekly bookings to the US from late March to August suffered an 8.4-percent slump on year as of August, likely due to the ongoing trade tensions between China and the US.
As a result, its stock price dropped below its offering price and slumped to $17.2 per share.
During the summer, JLR suffered its first pre-tax loss in three years after a slump in Chinese sales.
Moutai rivals Wuliangye Yibin Co Ltd and Gujing Group, among others, saw their shares slump by the daily limit of 10 percent.
As of press time, the company's share slumped 19.05 percent to HK$8.5.
Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant JD slumped 7.47 percent to $24.51 on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Tuesday, after Reuters reported more details about sexual assault allegations against the company's founder and CEO Liu Qiangdong.
While US stock markets were closed on Monday for Labor Day holiday, JD's ADR traded in Frankfurt slumped as much as 5 percent to 25.48 Euros ($29.57) on Monday and closed 2.75 percent lower on Tuesday at 25.49 Euros.
Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant JD slumped about 4.5 percent on the Nasdaq Stock Market in premarket trade on Tuesday, after the company's founder and CEO Liu Qiangdong was arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States, on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released without any charges or bail.
JD's American depositary receipts traded in Frankfurt, Germany, slumped 4.69 percent to 25.63 euros ($29.70) after the market opened on Monday.
Excluding the non-recurring items, the company's net profit slumped by 74.39 percent year-on-year, as research and overhead costs dragged down earnings.
Although its share price surged over 40 percent on the first trading day when it listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange on July 26, the price slumped 15 percent in the following three trading days.
Chinese genomics giant BGI, known as the Beijing Genomics Institute previously, announced on Tuesday that seven of its executives have decided to increase their equity holdings in the company, after a two-day stock slump triggered by a series of reports attacking its credibility.
Zhao Yue, an e-commerce specialist at Beijing-based market research firm Analysys, said the past two years had witnessed slowdown in the development of e-commerce, and sales at physical stores have also slumped.
Industry experts said under pressure from both internal and external factors, the continued slump in the stock market would affect the CDR offering.
Shares of several US suppliers of ZTE slumped immediately after the US Department of Commerce banned sales of components to ZTE for seven years for its alleged violations of the Export Administration Regulations.
Seeing a strong recovery in the worldwide cargo aircraft market following a prolonged slump, Boeing has planned to expand by 20 percent the production for its 767 freighter jet in 2020.
鉴于全球货运飞机市场在经历长期低迷后出现强劲复苏，波音公司计划在2020年将其767货机的产量提高20%。
Chinese mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in ASEAN countries soared in 2017 despite a slump in overall outbound investment, thanks largely to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to a report.
For the Hong Kong market, after seeing rapid growth between 2013 and 2015, Pandora experienced a correction in 2016 — one of the toughest years for the city's retail industry on record amid a global economic downturn and a sharp slump in tourist arrivals.
WELLINGTON－New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra slumped to a first-half loss on Wednesday after massive write-downs on its China business, and announced longtime chief executive Theo Spierings' departure.
House of Fraser announced it would cut the number of its high street shops by a third in an effort to reduce its rent bill following the slump in holiday sales.
Shen Meng, director of boutique investment bank Chanson & Co, said a slump in Leshi's share prices has definitely been settled since the company resumed trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
The overhaul came after CRRC saw a slump in freight-car sales, reflecting weaker demand for railway cargo transportation both at home and in overseas markets.
Last year, sales of platinum goods fell 8 percent in more than 8,000 jewelry stores run by 58 retailers across China due to a price slump, a Xinhuanet.
Rowe's efforts to simplify ranges and cut prices on basic lines are helping stem a five-year slump in sales, while M&S is planning to open 80 Simply Food stores.
"But revenue in other lines slumped with investments in some new products not yielding the desired benefits.
ICBC's reference to bonds appears to have come as the 2024 notes of Wanda Properties International, a Wanda group entity, slumped on Thursday.
It slumped on Wednesday for the first time in 12 trading days.
[Photo/VCG]China Southern Airlines, the country's biggest carrier by passenger volume, said Saturday its net profits slumped 42.44 percent year on year to 1.55 billion yuan ($220 million) in the first quarter of 2017.
SHENZHEN — China Vanke, the country's leading property developer, said Thursday night that its net profit for the first quarter of 2017 slumped 16.5 percent year on year to 695 million yuan ($100.8 million).
While high-tech sectors saw buoyant investment growth of 10.3 percent year-on-year last year, the country's total fixed-asset investment expanded by 3 percent, dragged down by the 9.6 percent slump in real estate development investment, the NBS said.
Despite the persistent challenges posed by a slump in the property sector and its impact on domestic demand, experts said they expect a notable economic upswing in China in 2024, fueled by a gradual recovery in services consumption and investment.
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.
China's retail sales, a gauge of consumption, have rebounded since August and rose by 10.1 percent year-on-year in November, while investment lagged behind as total fixed-asset investment expanded by 2.9 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2023 due to a slump in real estate development, according to the NBS.
Despite facing challenges like a property market slump and risks associated with local government debts, Zhu Guangyao, the former vice-minister of finance, said China's economy will likely expand by around 5 percent next year, given its potential growth rate standing at 5 percent to 6 percent.
Looking to the future, despite the likelihood of the property slump continuing to be a drag on the economy, analysts said that China's economy is likely to perform better in 2024 with a gradual recovery in domestic demand and consumption and an improvement in external financial conditions.
Food prices decreased 4 percent year-on-year in October as the slump in pork prices widened from 22 percent in September to 30.1 percent, which dragged the CPI down by 0.55 percentage points.
Trade: Export structure of nation said to be improvingChina's foreign trade registered year-on-year growth in October, after a continuously narrowing slump since July, adding to the recent signs of a gradual stabilization in the world's second-largest economy thanks to a slew of supportive policy measures, officials and analysts said.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the decline in the manufacturing PMI shows recovery in domestic demand is still tepid, affected by seasonal factors as well as the housing market slump.
DEPOUX: China's FDI figures slumped sharply in the second quarter of 2023.
In contrast, despite a slump of more than 10 percent in the Japanese yen's value vis-a-vis the US dollar this year, neighboring Japan saw its capital market expand robustly, with its benchmark index surging by more than 20 percent so far this year.
As a result, their overall income levels may see a similar slump, which translates into a big shock to balance sheets.
Warning of a range of challenges dragging on China's growth outlook, such as disinflationary pressures, the real estate slump and slowing external demand, they called for immediate stepping up of countercyclical adjustments to boost market confidence and consolidate the recovery trend.
The year-on-year slump in China's exports for three consecutive months since May can be attributed to sagging global trade demand amid central banks raising interest rates to curb inflation by reining in business and consumer activity, said Zhang Jingjing, chief macroeconomic analyst for China Merchants Securities.
Analysts said the measures are part of a package of steps to boost support for the private sector, which is key to reviving China's recovery amid pressures from the real estate slump and weakening external demand.
Although the broader economy is facing pressures from the still-weak demand, a complicated external environment and a real estate slump, economists believe that China is still on track to reach its annual growth target of around 5 percent, given the steady rebound in domestic demand and the steps taken to shore up the economy in the second half of the year.
The rapid slump of the PMI for three consecutive months, as well as an overall downturn in subsector readings, is sending an explicit message that the momentum of economic growth is waning in the short term.
At present, the country's property sector has begun to emerge from a protracted slump, supported by wide-ranging policies, it said.
"Despite a global slump, China's economy is forging ahead at a decent pace as new drivers of economic growth have emerged," said Zhu Min, vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, at the Boao Forum for Asia's annual conference on Wednesday.
The world's billionaires with a personal wealth of at least $1 billion reported the biggest slump in record last year, with the total number down by 8 percent to come at 3,112, according to the Hurun Global Rich List 2023 released on Thursday, which has come to the 12th edition this year.
Thanks to effective virus control and timely pro-growth policies, China's economy has quickly emerged from the epidemic-induced slump and consolidated its recovery momentum for a brighter outlook.
得益于有效的病毒防控措施和及时的促增长政策，中国经济已迅速从疫情引发的衰退中复苏，并巩固了其恢复势头，展现出更加光明的发展前景。
However, export growth slumped to 7.1 percent in August.
However, the growth of manufacturing investment has fallen from a high level, and real estate investment has continued a downtrend, with a slump of 5.4 percent during the period.
As the developed economies have started to stall, their contribution to China's export growth slumped.
Amid better supplies and improving logistics efficiency, vegetable prices slumped 9.2 percent month-on-month in June.
Profits earned by China's industrial firms contracted at a slower pace in May as COVID-19 outbreaks eased off and work and production resumed gradually, improving from its biggest slump in April since March 2020, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
Following Thursday's slump in US equities, China's stock market ended lower on Friday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropping 2.16 percent to close at 3,001.56 points.
Profits in manufacturing fell 2.1 percent in the first quarter and bottom lines reported by power, heat, gas, water production and supply firms slumped 30.3 percent.
The Chinese yuan slumped against the US dollar on Monday as investor sentiment further weakened amid resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases and fast tightening by the US Federal Reserve, experts said on Monday.
China's stock market also declined on Monday as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slumped by 5.13 percent to close at 2,928.51 points, the lowest level in nearly two years.
Impacted by the changing COVID-19 situation, economic indicators slumped in March compared with the first two months.
She explained that manufacturing businesses are also more likely to generate VAT credits that can be refunded later, adding that as the sector is also facing the three-fold pressure of shrinking demand, a supply slump and weakening expectations, the move is timely and will greatly relieve liquidity burdens.
- After the pandemic-related slump of Chinese company investments in Europe in 2020, the number of transactions rose again and reached 155 in 2021, according to a study published by consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY) Germany on Tuesday.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slumped by 4.95 percent to 3,063.97 points on Tuesday, its lowest level in more than a year and a half, market tracker Wind Info said.