Their relationship is under great
strain at the moment.
他们的关系目前非常紧张。
The string broke under the
strain .
绳子给拉断了。
This is only one of the many
strains of the virus.
这只是多种病毒株中的一种。
While the country's green energy transition creates growth opportunities, it can also put significant strain on existing grids.
虽然该国的绿色能源转型创造了增长机会,但也会给现有电网带来巨大压力。
It can not only detect HPV, a virus that causes the cancer, but also tell the strain of the virus and how likely the strain is to progress to cancer.
它不仅可以检测导致癌症的HPV病毒,还可以判断该病毒的株系以及该毒株发展为癌症的可能性。
Yuwell Group, a medical equipment manufacturer in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, was fined 2.7 million yuan ($402,030) for jacking up the price of oximeters when the Omicron virus strain was rattling China, the Zhenjiang Market Supervision Bureau said.
镇江市市场监管局表示,江苏省镇江市的医疗设备制造商裕伟集团因在奥密克戎毒株肆虐中国时抬高血氧计价格而被罚款270万元(402030美元)。
For years, Jala gathered thousands of bacteria, fungi and other organisms from natural resources in the Himalayas, and by gene sequencing, the group developed a special strain bank.
多年来,贾拉从喜马拉雅山的自然资源中收集了数千种细菌、真菌和其他生物,通过基因测序,该小组开发了一个特殊的菌株库。
Providence's lead mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials, has demonstrated it is generally safe and well-tolerated and that the dosed subjects have high neutralization titers against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 in an S protein-typed pseudovirus assay.
Moody's cautioned downward rating pressure could emerge if Tencent experiences a sustained erosion in its active user base that leads to lower cash flow, engages in aggressive acquisitions that strain its balance-sheet liquidity or raises its overall risk profile, adopts an aggressive dividend policy that weakens its balance-sheet liquidity or demonstrates a weaker credit profile.
The contagious UK strain, known as B.1.1.7, has doubled its prevalence in cases in the US every nine days.
Q4 data also showed a sustained positive trend among the firms in terms of investment enthusiasm, enterprise profitability and the ease of cash strain, with relevant indexes rising for the third consecutive quarter.
"We've seen many SMEs suffering a financial strain due to the epidemic, so solving their financing difficulties should be the top priority," said He Zhimin, deputy commissioner of the National Intellectual Property Administration.
Tiberghien said it is not certain that the US wants Meng to be tried in the US, as it would be a strain on already fraught US-China relations.
Supply chains are already under strain due to record demand and abrupt changes in factory speed can cause snags.
There has been a growing supply strain involving copper concentrates on the global market in recent years, and this has caused a steady decline in the treatment and refining charges companies can charge for the processing of copper concentrates, he said.
In recent years there is a growing strain in the global supply chain for copper concentrates.
Such fundraising opportunities are especially precious for local vaccine developers such as CanSino Biologics because developing high-quality new vaccines means a company must use the first-generation strain of a virus.
Public awareness needs to be further improved, given the strain caused to eyes by excessive use of smartphones and video games as well as workload-related stress.
"Generally, companies in Guangdong have been seeing relatively stable development, although their businesses were under some strain from the Sino-US trade dispute," Ma said in a recent meeting.
Such a move would further strain Boeing's cash flow which fell $1.01 billion in the red in the second quarter, Mann said.
Beijing-based high-tech company Scitop Bio-tech has established Asia's largest probiotic strain resource bank, and aims at creating the largest probiotic strain resource bank in the world by 2022, marking a leap-forward development in China's probiotic industry.
According to the company, it analyzed every strain of probiotics on the genetic level, and screened out those strains that can survive in a human intestine and benefit the human body.
Despite the Hong Kong stock market showing signs of strain, a Chinese mainland game distributor has bucked the trend, rekindling local equity investors' enthusiasm for a promising newcomer.
Meituan-Dianping, the Tencent-backed online food review and delivery company, got off to a reasonable start on its trading debut in Hong Kong, delivering some respite to a local stock market that is showing signs of strain and losing its faith in a clutch of mega tech floats.
It attributed its operational loss to the financial strain of related parties, liquidity issues and rising financing costs.
Leshi attributed its operation loss to the financial strain of related parties, liquidity issues and rising financing costs.
Liu Shuqing, general manager of the company, said at the meeting it is of utmost urgency to resolve the financial strain, but Liu acknowledged the difficulty in letting the non-listed units of LeEco to repay the outstanding debt.
It said the move is an effort to resolve the financial strain and supply chain problems it faces, with stakes sought in Faraday Future, Lucid Motors and LeSEE, among others.
The company said the move is an effort to resolve the financial strain and supply chain problems it faces, with stakes sought in Faraday Future, Lucid Motors and LeSEE, among others.
This will strain the system but also present significant opportunities for innovation.
Japan's home-sharing market is rapidly expanding after the government cleared regulatory hurdles earlier this year and as record tourist arrivals put a strain on the hotel industry.
Traditional desks and chairs can strain wrists and bodies if postures are maintained in the same position for a long time, but Humanscale says furniture that adapts to human bodies and encourages comfortable postures, such as sit-stand tables that could glide up and down, allow employees to dynamically alternate between positions.
This seismic shift will put an enormous fiscal strain on the government.
China's central bank is likely to provide low-cost funding for commercial banks assisting certain local governments in addressing their debt strain, underlining the country's growing emphasis on defusing local government debt risks, experts said.
Yang said the SPV is most likely to provide low-cost funding, in the form of relending, for commercial banks which engage in mitigating the liquidity strain of local government financing vehicles, or LGFVs, by extending loan maturity, providing refinancing, swapping high-cost debt with low-cost loans and other measures.
That could be achieved by expediting the restructuring of struggling property developers, facilitating the completion of housing projects, and addressing the growing strain in local government finances, all of which would help restore business and consumer confidence.
China's foreign trade, affected by a combination of economic and non-economic factors, has been under constant strain and encountered a severe and complex situation in recent months.
Last month, the country's top economic planner said it encourages the participation of these types of energy storage facilities in the mechanism aimed at alleviating strain on the power system during peak periods.
As the US Federal Reserve and other central banks have raised interest rates at the fastest pace in years to curb inflation, a growing number of banks are caught in a liquidity strain.
With optimized COVID-19 measures, output of the manufacturing sector fell at the softest pace in five months, the downturn in new orders moderated, while the strain on supply chains eased, the report said.
Malpass said that the advanced economies are taking a lot of the world's capital in the form of fiscal deficits, by heavy borrowing by big corporations and by the central banks themselves, buying only the bonds of the very advanced countries, which puts a strain on development from the macro side.
Li Xuhong, a senior researcher with the Beijing National Accounting Institute, said that the tax and fee policies implemented in 2022 mainly center on support for key enterprises, such as the sci-tech, manufacturing and micro, small and medium-sized firms, and aim to precisely "drip irrigate" market entities experiencing financial strain.
"Our financial strain in early stages was greatly alleviated, thanks to the 1.8 billion yuan from the CDB fund," said Li Feng, chairman of the relevant construction company.
The economy has come under strain from COVID-19 resurgences and global geopolitical conflicts since March.
The latest data showed a feeble April growth of only 0.1 percent in the total exports and imports, indicating that the country's foreign trade firms are under strain.
The country will speed up the tax refunds that can directly boost the cash flow of companies and mitigate their financial strain, Xu said, adding refunds of outstanding VAT credits to medium-sized and large enterprises will start ahead of schedule in May and June, respectively.
Though seemingly less severe than the Delta variant, Omicron is still a dangerous viral strain and can cause serious symptoms, especially among the elderly and unvaccinated.
To mitigate the impact of the highly infectious Omicron strain of the novel coronavirus, which has spread to multiple cities, including the country's biggest business hub Shanghai, the government will address specific difficulties faced by foreign-funded companies in resuming work and accessing production materials, said Gao Feng, the ministry's spokesman.
Online food delivery platforms are encouraged to lower service fees for virus-hit catering enterprises to help them tackle the cash strain.
According to Zhou, as the pandemic continues to have a severe impact on global production and recovery, high levels of inflation in many developed economies, including the United States and Europe, have led to panic buying and put more strain on already fragile global supply chains and have disrupted the normal operations of China's foreign trade enterprises.
The outcome of genome sequencing showed the virus in that case has the same origin as the Alpha variant, a COVID-19 strain first detected in the United Kingdom.
"Depending on market changes, we will also work with relevant parties to release batches of (reserves) in a timely manner for some time to come, to increase the market supply, ease the strain on enterprises costs and guide the prices to return to a reasonable range," said Meng.
In previous decades, rapid population growth put an immense strain on the country's limited resource base which explains the government's intense focus on birth control from the 1970s.
Chinese companies overseas have withstood the economic strain brought by the pandemic, and their hiring levels remained stable, the white paper stated.
These trends have all been moving in this direction since 2017, and were accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic as Trump refused to remove tariffs despite their strain on businesses, it said.
A rising strain in employment for key groups, difficulties in forestalling and defusing risks, and local governments' debt issues will be among the major domestic challenges, Zhang added.
The survey also showed eased cash strain, increased operating results, and stable investment enthusiasm among the firms, the association said, citing China's pro-SME measures such as the central bank's targeted monetary policies that lowered financing costs.
Unlike traditional liquid crystal displays, where a backlight is projected toward the eyes, the e-ink display reflects ambient light from the environment and provides a paper-like viewing experience with wide viewing angles and low power consumption, thus reducing eye strain, experts said.
Ye Yindan, a researcher at the Bank of China Research Institute, said credit expansion related to the real estate sector is expected to improve in the second half thanks to policy support, with the liquidity strain facing the sector likely to gradually ease.
Traditionally, a city would build more power plants to solve power strain.
Cities including Zhengzhou and Fuzhou have unveiled incentives including lowering the down payment proportion, providing support via provident fund loans, and cutting mortgage loan interest rates to ease the property market strain.
As the global COVID-19 pandemic drags well into a third year, demand for related test products keeps growing both at home and abroad, especially with the fast spread of the highly transmissible Omicron strain.
Amid price hikes, nation's stabilizing moves to keep production on trackAdding more strain to global steel supplies and price inflation of raw materials, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has increased China's steel production costs, yet experts said as domestic steel market expectations level off amid Chinese authorities' efforts to ensure stable economic growth, the domestic steel industry is well-poised for healthy development despite such external factors.
These timely measures, at both the local and central levels, proved effective in restoring near-term coal supply and helped to gradually ease the strain on power generation, industry insiders said.
These timely measures, at both the local and central levels, proved effective in restoring near-term coal supply and helped gradually ease the strain on power generation, industry insiders noted.
Yuan began researching hybrid rice in 1964 and succeeded in cultivating the world's first high-yield strain in 1973.
But the steady growth of installed capacity has put a strain on the country's power system due to insufficient regulation capabilities.
"Total tax and fee reductions will also reduce the financial strain on companies, especially privately owned enterprises.
However, China's property firms may still face certain financing strain in H2 due to potential tightening in market liquidity and pressure from debt repayment, noted the research institute of online housing platform Beike.
"Having a child has put a lot of strain on the family budget," said Ma Xin, who has a 4-year-old daughter and lives in Dongcheng district of Beijing.
Chen Qiaoshan, a medical analyst at Beijing-based market consultancy Analysys, said that China has a relatively mature research and development foundation for vaccine production, and the reason why China is among the first-tier nations this time is that it conducted strain isolation and started R&D at an early stage.
"He can pick about 0.5 kg of mushrooms from every mushroom strain each time, and he can harvest from each strain four times in total," said village official Yang Xiaosheng, who introduced the mushroom business to Yu to help the family out of poverty.
- In the factory of Shenglan Paper Co Ltd, 14 workers are busy producing meltblown, non-woven fabric that could help shield people from infections by the novel strain of coronavirus.
For years, financing had been a head-scratcher for small pig farmers like Zhao Guanchao, especially when animal diseases and other unexpected events eat into profits and lead to liquidity strain.
The model pioneered by the rural cooperative is part of the country's ongoing efforts to ease pig farmers' financing strain to restore pork supply after outbreaks of African swine fever significantly reduced the number of pigs in stock.
As air conditioning is already putting a strain on energy demand in many countries, electricity consumed by cooling in China represents more than 15 percent of the national total.
The 35-year-old US retailer Forever 21, which has said it will shut all of its stores in China, reflects the strain of fierce competition that fast fashion brands face in China.
The new airport, located in the city's southern Daxing district, is designed to alleviate the strain on Beijing Capital International Airport in the northeast.
The idea is to ease eye strain.
It helps relieve the strain on increasingly congested city roads and allows people and goods to reach their destinations faster and more safely.
The lack of production in Fremont cuts off Tesla's revenue and is a big financial strain.
Transport advances are necessary at ports as container throughput at China's ports has risen in recent years, putting immense strain on existing transport resources and drivers, he said.
The 360-degree freely rotating high-precision chair leverages technology to simulate real-life massage techniques and can help relieve shoulder and neck muscle strain caused by high-intensity gaming.
The Ukraine factor in Europe arising from Russia's special operations this week may affect the supply of raw materials for semiconductor production, which could inflate prices and further strain global supplies, sector experts said.
China has successfully developed its agricultural sector over past decades but such development has also contributed to a shortage of good farmland as well as a strain on water supplies.
Given the strain on technology-enabled infrastructure in populous big cities, AI majors such as Megvii, Cloudwalk and SenseTime have developed fever-detection systems with noncontact inspection tools and automatic alerts.
“As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain our communities’ last-mile logistics services and essential businesses, Pony.
Given the strain on tech-enabled infrastructure in populous big cities, AI majors such as Megvii, Cloud-Walk and SenseTime have developed fever-detection systems with non-contact inspection tools and automatic alerts.
The biggest benefit comes from the potential easing of strain on resources, freeing up time for doctor-patient interactions and even aiding in the development of tailored treatment.
Second, local government debts are under more strain.
The aging population will put more strain on China's healthcare, social security and pension expenditure, necessitating further government spending.
This demonstrates the central government's high priority placed on addressing the underlying roots of the land financing problem as well as its hidden dangers, rather than only relieving the immediate strain.
Noting that the funds will be entirely directed to local administrations through the transfer payment mechanism, Wang said this will help optimize the country's debt structure and ease the fiscal strain on local governments.
"Commercial banks have provided a large portion of loans to real estate developers, meaning that the liquidity strain of troubled developers can directly affect commercial banks.
Citing the government's stepped-up efforts to stabilize the property sector, Yang said such measures will ease financing conditions for real estate developers and reduce the strain on developers' balance sheets.
Sensible future steps for China to help alleviate potential financial strain in other EM economies include expanding currency swaps and participating in debt restructuring schemes, they said.
Marking the first multilateral renminbi pooling scheme, the arrangement features participation of EM economies and can assist them in dealing with potential financial strain by providing liquidity for international payments and helping stabilize their currencies, experts said.
Expansion of the program is expected to help domestic institutions, especially small and medium-sized enterprises and "specialized, sophisticated, distinctive and innovative" companies, to raise funds through multiple channels and ease their financing strain amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the SAFE circular.
But, on the other hand, the reform carries the risk of hurting investor sentiment, as more IPOs would be launched under the reform and could strain market liquidity in the short term, especially as uncertainties of the pandemic were sweeping global markets.
If the risk materializes on a large scale, the laborers who may be laid off could further strain the job market, which already feels the pressure from a record-high number of graduates.
The smaller lenders, however, may face the strain of rising non-performing loans in the second half, and special policy tools are needed to prevent large profit drops in the banking sector, advisers said.
Total tax and fee reductions will reduce the financial strain on companies, especially privately-owned enterprises, as weak economic growth and other novel coronavirus epidemic disruptions are constraining revenue and profit growth prospects, according to data from Moody's Investors Service.
"Following the COVID-19 outbreak, financial conditions tightened at unprecedented speed, exposing some 'cracks' in global financial markets," the IMF said in its newly-released Global Financial Stability Report, noting market volatility spiked, borrowing costs surged and signs of strain emerged in major funding markets.