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 companies' long-term confidence in the China market seemed not to have been dented by the strained relations between the two countries, as evidenced partly by the finding that 83 percent of surveyed companies had not moved any segments of their supply chains out of China in the past year.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has strained global education and healthcare systems, Huawei said it has been using its innovative ICT solutions to provide people across different regions with equal access to quality education and healthcare resources and playing its part in the fight against the pandemic.
The contagious UK strain, known as B.1.1.7, has doubled its prevalence in cases in the US every nine days.
On top of that, strained or disrupted supply chains posed additional problems.
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.
Survey: Companies say they're profitable, plan to remain despite strained relationsDespite an unprecedented downturn in relations between the world's top two economies during the COVID-19 pandemic, United States businesses are not leaving the Chinese market, where most are making profits and optimistic about future growth, the US-China Business Council said in its annual member survey on Tuesday.
"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.
But the group has run into financial difficulties with mounting debts and strained cash flows.
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.
Canadian lawyer Ping Tan said: "The impact of Meng's case on Canada-China relations has been widely commented on, and no doubt a decision against her will cause crippling damage to the already strained relations.
"The impact of Meng's case on the Canada-China relations has been widely commented on, and no doubt a decision against her will cause crippling damage to the already strained 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.
This marks the latest in a recent series of senior US government official visits in the hope of mitigating increasingly strained relations between the world's two largest economies, said Wei Zongyou, a professor at the Center for American Studies of Fudan University in Shanghai.
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.
If further strained, global growth will decline to about 2.5 percent in 2023, according to the institution.
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.
In the same vein, the US-China Business Council in its 2021 annual member survey also found that the strained relationship between Washington and Beijing had remained a "top challenge" for US businesses operating in China for the fourth consecutive year.
Jeremy Weir, chief executive of the commodity trader Trafigura, said it was highly probable that oil prices could rise to $150 a barrel or higher in the coming months, with supply chains strained as Russia tries to redirect its oil exports away from Europe.
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.
Given that transportations by sea and air are both strained, the China-Europe freight trains provided another way of direct connections, Kawus Khederzadeh, general manager of the industrial park in Hoechst Frankfurt, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
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.
The high level of inflation in the US is a combined result of excessively loose monetary policies and strained international industrial and supply chains due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Liu Ying, a senior researcher at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China in Beijing.
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.
Consequently, the global supply chain, which is already under huge pressure due to clogged ports and high-level ocean shipping rates, will likely become even more strained.
Ivanova's views were echoed by Yu Yongding, an academician at CASS, who highlighted the unprecedented challenges faced by the global economy, including the resurgence of COVID-19, the accelerated process of tapering by the US Federal Reserve, and strained ties between China and the United States.
The most-traded thermal coal contract on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, for delivery in January, dropped more than 8 percent in Friday's daytime session, extending a continuous plunge triggered by the government's intervention in the strained energy sector last week.
Facing a tight coal supply situation and government intervention in the strained energy market, coal companies should strive to boost output while ramping up efforts to reduce costs and increase efficiency, in a bid to spur the sustainable development of the companies, Bai said.
"Strained shipping capacity and surging freight costs have continued, which will prolong delivery time frames and increase operational costs for foreign trade companies, especially the small and medium-sized ones," Wen said.
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.
But US services exports to China, which include travel, education and financial services, declined 3 percent in 2019, the first time in more than a decade that the category has fallen, a clear indicator that strained relations between the two countries took a toll on cross-border exchanges.
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.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she remained convinced that the EU-China investment deal was an "important undertaking" even as strained relations complicate the agreement's ratification, AFP reported on Wednesday.
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.
Pumped-storage power stations use off-peak electricity to pump water to higher locations, where it is stored and then released to generate electricity when a power supply is strained.
Overall electricity supply and demand are expected to remain balanced throughout the year, with possible localized strained power supply situations during certain periods, it said.
Overall electricity supply and demand are expected to remain balanced throughout the year, with possible localized strained power supply situations during certain periods, the council said in a recently released report in Beijing.
Overall, electricity supply and demand are expected to remain balanced throughout the year with regional strained power supply during certain periods, the council said in a recently released report in Beijing.
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.
The federation forecasts that the petrochemical industry in China, though still challenged with uncertainty from COVID-19, downward pressure on the economy, uncertain product prices, and strained supply chains, has numerous opportunities this year as China's petrochemical market has much room for further expansion.
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.
Chinese coal futures dropped on fears of government intervention in the strained energy sector.
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.
Despite factors like many top realty players missing first-half revenue targets, the government's stringent rules continuing to keep a lid on runaway prices, and financially strained investors turning cautious on new developments, the industry is all excited about the future.