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。
According to Jordan, the number of microorganisms in the human intestinal tract has reached about 100 trillion, consisting of 2,000 different bacterial strains or species.
据约旦称，人类肠道中的微生物数量已达约100万亿，由2000种不同的细菌菌株或物种组成。
Identifying and selecting specific single strains of bacteria is a complicated task.
识别和选择特定的单一菌株是一项复杂的任务。
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。
Downward pressure on the ratings of some Chinese developers may intensify because of delays in the publication of audited financial results or changes in auditors which add to financing strains, Fitch Ratings said.
惠誉评级表示，由于审计财务结果的延迟公布或审计师的变动增加了融资压力，一些中国开发商的评级下调压力可能会加剧。
"BGI Genomics provided a full set of nucleic acid detection solutions and a virus sequencing platform to Saudi health authorities, helping the country establish a monitoring capability for COVID's mutated strains.
“华大基因向沙特卫生当局提供了全套核酸检测解决方案和病毒测序平台，帮助该国建立了对新冠病毒变异株的监测能力。
It can "extensively neutralize SARS-CoV-2 mutant strains" and its efficacy "has been verified in cell-based experiments and in vivo mouse models", the company said.
该公司表示，它可以“广泛中和严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒2型变异株”，其功效“已在基于细胞的实验和体内小鼠模型中得到验证”。
"A two-valent HPV vaccine is designed to protect against Type 16 and Type 18 HPV, the two most common virus strains that lead to cervical cancer for women in China," she said.
她说：“一种二价HPV疫苗旨在预防16型和18型HPV，这两种最常见的病毒株会导致中国女性患宫颈癌症。”。
Collectively strains of Delta, Gamma and Mu comprised 73 percent of all strains identified in the study.
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.
During an exclusive interview with China Daily on Sunday during the 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services, held in Beijing from Sep 2 to 7, Chen Kun, secretary of the commission for discipline inspection at CNBG, said trials have shown the company's two inactivated vaccines can effectively protect people from existing mainstream strains of the new coronavirus.
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.
Given the geographic diversity of Spectra, Clover expects to announce a robust dataset in the third quarter of 2021, including an analysis of efficacy across the major currently circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2, including variants of concern and variants of interest.
The capacity of the train is 35 percent higher than that of a flat-layer train and thus eases capacity strains on busy European railroads, said Sun Yongcai, president and chairman of CRRC.
For example, in November, Bayer inked a deal with Jiangnan University in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, focusing on the development and clinical studies of China patented strains to develop probiotic solutions exclusively for Chinese consumers.
During the period, business confidence among SMEs was further restored, market expectations continued to improve, and cash strains were eased, said the association, citing China's pro-SME measures such as targeted monetary policies from the central bank that lowered financing pressures.
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.
We collect probiotic strains worldwide, and now we have a collection of 14,341 strains, forming the largest resource bank in Asia," said Liu Xiaojun, president of Scitop Bio-tech.
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.
Industry experts said that when China first started its probiotic industry, enterprises had to purchase almost all core strains from European and American countries, which not only cost a lot, but also limited the development of the country's probiotic industry.
To solve the dilemma, scientists from Scitop Bio-tech searched through the ancient trade routes in China, Mongolia, Russia, and separated lactic acid bacteria from traditional fermented dairy products, where they successfully collected 14,341 probiotic strains, and greatly narrowed the gap of R&D ability with foreign probiotic companies.
The environment should suit probiotic strains, and so does the human body.
Those strains selected from the European's body may not suit our Chinese intestine.
With over nine decades of expertise in mice genetics, Jackson Laboratory has offered China over 11,000 strains of mice that can be applied toward researching many diseases, such as lung cancer and diabetes.
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.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the latest figures point to strains on the manufacturing sector amid still-weak demand, calling for more efforts to expand effective demand, boost consumer confidence and increase the support for weak links in the real economy and key emerging fields.
China's factory activity expanded at a slower pace in June, a private survey showed on Monday, pointing to the strains on the manufacturing sector due to still-weak demand and highlighting the need to step up countercyclical policy adjustments.
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.
Moreover, given the milder nature of the dominant strains of the virus across the country, the central authorities began modifying the COVID-19 strategies and cut many testing and isolation requirements.
The regulatory tightening in the property sector, while well intended to rein in high leverage, has added to severe financial strains for developers, leading to a rapid slowdown in housing sales and investment, along with a sharp decline in local government land-sale revenues, the statement 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.
- China has rolled out new measures to optimize its business environment, aiming to ease current strains on small businesses and cement the foundations of economic recovery, according to a guideline unveiled on Thursday.
"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 policy was first adopted last October as a supportive measure to spur innovation amid COVID-19 strains.
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.
- China on Thursday rolled out a private pension scheme to complement the nation's current pension system in its latest effort to tackle the strains of an aging population.
With such an aging population, government expenditure alone is hard to meet the rising obligations, and the development of the private pension scheme would help ease the strains, said Everbright Securities in a note.
Online food delivery platforms are encouraged to lower service fees for virus-hit catering enterprises to help them tackle the cash strain.
The World Bank said in its East Asia and the Pacific Economic Update on Monday that China's GDP is forecast to grow 5 percent this year in the baseline scenario, down from its October forecast of 5.4 percent, citing the impacts of a spike in COVID-19 infections and continued strains on overleveraged real estate firms.
In addition to boosting growth at home through reforms, the economic planner also noted that challenges, including global commodity prices hikes and energy supply strains, might persist and hinder development.
The Chinese government has been coordinating efforts to put into place a national pension program to tackle the strains from an aging population and regional imbalance.
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.
Shipping companies, including Maersk, COSCO Shipping Lines and CMA CGM Group, have all warned customers that it would take several weeks to clear up the immense container backlog in the region that has put strains on global supply chains over the past four weeks.
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.
Consumers are paying more attention to healthy eating, place of origin, strains and processing methods.
"So much depends on the path of the pandemic — which is now shaped by uneven progress in vaccination and the new virus strains that are holding back growth prospects, especially in Europe and Latin America.
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.
As China's foreign trade in goods has notched a historic high in 2020 despite COVID-19 strains, the services trade sector is also expected to embrace more vitality amid the country's efforts to open its market wider to the rest of the world.
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.
As it has become hard for highly leveraged real estate enterprises to sustain robust sales and high profits, their heavy interest payment burdens exposed many of them; and cash flow strains put some at risk of bankruptcy.
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.
Online food delivery platforms are encouraged to lower service fees for virus-hit catering enterprises to help them tackle cash strains.
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.
The model proved efficient during good times for the property market, but it carries the inherent risk of liquidity strains and debt defaults when expectations of ever-rising property prices are shaken.
Rebound in real estate bonds, vows to address strains cited by expertsThere is growing evidence of a silver lining to concern over the potential for some Chinese developers to default on offshore debts, experts said.
Officials from central and local levels also have all voiced a commitment to addressing the cash strains of real estate developers.