He is too
weak to speak a word.
他虚弱得说不出来话。
Weak men had need to be witty.
弱者需要机智。
The tea is too
weak.
茶很淡。
Despite weak global growth, the foreign trade of China's private firms jumped 14.4 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter, accounting for 52.4 percent of the country's total.
尽管全球经济增长疲软，但第一季度中国私营企业的外贸同比增长14.4%，占全国外贸总额的52.4%。
Despite China's sound growth momentum, many private entrepreneurs have said that more time is needed for a full market recovery from the COVID-induced economic fallout, citing challenges such as rising costs, difficulties in financing and recruitment, as well as weak global demand.
尽管中国的增长势头良好，但许多私营企业家表示，市场需要更多时间从新冠疫情引发的经济影响中全面复苏，理由是成本上升、融资和招聘困难以及全球需求疲软等挑战。
More efforts will be made to upgrade and strengthen industrial and supply chains and shore up weak links, and greater work will be done to support equipment upgrading and renovation.
加大产业链、供应链升级改造和薄弱环节支撑力度，加大装备升级改造支持力度。
While the domestic demand for natural gas, petrochemical products and oil products was weak last year, Sinopec said it has fully leveraged its integration advantages in coordinating all aspects of work and developed through innovation.
尽管去年国内对天然气、石化产品和石油产品的需求疲软，但中石化表示，在协调各方面工作方面，已充分利用其一体化优势，通过创新发展。
"In 2022, the company encountered complicated, fickle and severe conditions, including global economic slowdown, geopolitical conflicts and weak domestic market demand," said Ma Yongsheng, chairman of Sinopec Corp. "In 2023, we will seize the favorable opportunity arising from steady development of domestic economy and the recovery of demand for petroleum and petrochemical products, insist on driving growth in a stable manner and strive to achieve effective quality improvement in different businesses and reasonable volume growth," he said.
马永生表示：“2022年，公司遇到了复杂、多变和严峻的形势，包括全球经济放缓、地缘政治冲突和国内市场需求疲软。”，他表示：“2023年，我们将抓住国内经济稳步发展和石油石化产品需求复苏的有利机遇，坚持以稳定的方式推动增长，努力实现不同业务的质量有效提高和数量合理增长。”。
"However, the food delivery business has higher requirements for logistics and distribution efficiency, which are currently weak links for Douyin and will have an impact on users' shopping experience.
“然而，送餐业务对物流和配送效率的要求更高，这是抖音目前的薄弱环节，将对用户的购物体验产生影响。
The decline was narrower than the previous two quarters despite the continued weak demand.
尽管需求持续疲软，但降幅较前两个季度收窄。
This year, the global tech industry is expected to face challenges like weak demand, which might weigh on many companies' performance, they said.
他们表示，今年，全球科技行业预计将面临需求疲软等挑战，这可能会影响许多公司的业绩。
"This year, however, the global tech industry is expected to face weak demand, which might affect its revenue.
“然而，今年全球科技行业预计将面临需求疲软，这可能会影响其收入。
Producer price inflation, one gauge of industrial profitability, showed an annual fall for a second month in November, rekindling worries about slowing demand and weak activity.
衡量工业盈利能力的生产者价格通胀在11月连续第二个月出现年度下降，重新引发了人们对需求放缓和活动疲软的担忧。
If the target is met, the new fund – TPG Capital Asia VIII – will become the firm's largest Asia fund since it entered the region in 1994, despite the weak global market sentiment and uncertainties.
如果实现这一目标，尽管全球市场情绪疲软且存在不确定性，但新基金TPG Capital Asia VIII将成为该公司自1994年进入该地区以来最大的亚洲基金。
However, as demand for major chemical products has been weak due to high crude oil prices and COVID-19, China Petrochemical Corp, also known as Sinopec and the world's largest refiner by volume, saw its net profit fall 5.6 percent in the first nine months to 56.66 billion yuan.
然而，由于原油价格高企和新冠肺炎疫情，对主要化工产品的需求疲软，中国石油化工集团公司（也称中国石化，是全球最大的炼油商）前九个月的净利润下降5.6%，至561.6亿元。
Weng, addressing a meeting in Beijing in early September, said that central SOEs will play a greater role in keeping production and supply chains stable, strengthening weak links in the economy, and completing the goals set for the three-year action plan by the year's end.
翁9月初在北京的一次会议上表示，中央国有企业将在保持生产和供应链稳定、加强经济薄弱环节、年底前完成三年行动计划目标方面发挥更大作用。
Different road scenarios, including extreme weather conditions, weak signal environments, traffic jams and emergencies, are simulated in the testing areas.
测试区域模拟了不同的道路场景，包括极端天气条件、弱信号环境、交通堵塞和紧急情况。
Additionally, in Nanping, a lower-tier city in Fujian province, the construction of a comprehensive school comprising a middle school and a primary school has recently kicked off, with an investment of some 640 million yuan ($91.7 million) by local SOE Nanping Wuyi New Area Investment and Development Group Co Ltd. "China needs to bring into full play the pivotal role of investment and continue to support investment in infrastructure projects to address weak links essential for people's livelihoods.
此外，在福建省的低线城市南平，一所由中学和小学组成的综合学校的建设最近已经启动，投资约6.4亿元人民币（9170万美元）当地国有企业南平武夷新区投资发展集团有限公司表示：“中国需要充分发挥投资的关键作用，继续支持基础设施项目投资，以解决民生所需的薄弱环节。
"CCB kept optimizing the credit structure, allocating more resources to key fields and weak links of the economy while reducing credit extensions to the real estate sector.
“建行不断优化信贷结构，将更多资源投向经济的关键领域和薄弱环节，同时减少对房地产行业的信贷投放。
The Bank of China ramped up credit support for key fields and weak links of the economy in the first half of this year, strengthening financial support for infrastructure construction, better serving the green transition and increasing financial supply to stabilize foreign trade, said senior executives of the bank.
中国银行高管表示，今年上半年，中国银行加大了对经济重点领域和薄弱环节的信贷支持力度，加强了对基础设施建设的金融支持，更好地服务于绿色转型，增加了金融供应以稳定外贸。
"We kept optimizing the bank's credit structure, allocating more resources to the key fields and weak links of the economy while reducing the issuance of credit to the real estate sector.
“我们不断优化银行信贷结构，将更多资源配置到经济的关键领域和薄弱环节，同时减少向房地产部门发放信贷。
As traditional infrastructure is still underdeveloped and has weak links due to its unbalanced growth, industrial upgrade and transitions to cleaner, greener energy need large-scale "new infrastructure" investment, said Yu Xiangrong, China chief economist at Citigroup.
花旗集团（Citigroup）中国首席经济学家余向荣表示，由于传统基础设施仍不发达，且由于增长不平衡而存在薄弱环节，产业升级和向更清洁、更环保的能源转型需要大规模的“新基础设施”投资。
"Long-time international brands that have shown weak growth in customer numbers in their home market might emerge as the new darlings of Chinese consumers after a bit of rejuvenation," said Hu.
胡说：“那些在国内市场客户数量增长疲软的长期国际品牌，在经历了一段复兴之后，可能会成为中国消费者的新宠。”。
"These little giant companies are strong in technological breakthroughs, innovations and industrial upgrades, and are able to fill in certain weak niches for the country.
“这些小巨人公司在技术突破、创新和产业升级方面实力雄厚，能够填补国家的某些薄弱环节。
"The little giant companies, which are able to fill certain weak niches in the country, will help improve the industrial and supply chains, and enable China to become a manufacturing powerhouse.
“这些小巨人公司能够填补中国的某些薄弱环节，将有助于改善工业和供应链，使中国成为制造业强国。
Although market insiders expected a weak result, the magnitude of profit decline might have exceeded expectations, wrote Citi analysts in a note, which promptly cut Tencent's target price to HK$562 from HK$634, based on lower target multiples reflecting slower growth outlook.
花旗分析师在一份报告中写道，尽管市场内部人士预计业绩不佳，但利润下降的幅度可能超出预期。该报告迅速将腾讯的目标价从634港元下调至562港元，因为较低的目标倍数反映出增长前景放缓。
These 'little giant' companies, which are able to fill in certain weak niches in the country, will help improve the industry and supply chains and enable China to become a manufacturing powerhouse," said Li Chao, chief economist of Zheshang Securities.
浙商证券首席经济学家李超表示：“这些‘小巨人’公司能够填补中国某些薄弱环节，将有助于改善行业和供应链，使中国成为制造业强国。”。
However, in the process of digital transformation, many SMEs face challenges such as weak digital tools, lack of funding and insufficient talent, and some are confused about how to embrace digitalization, said Yang, who is also a deputy to the NPC.
然而，全国人大代表杨表示，在数字化转型过程中，许多中小企业面临着数字化工具薄弱、资金短缺和人才不足等挑战，一些中小企业对如何拥抱数字化感到困惑。
This year, SOEs will play a greater role in keeping production and supply chains stable and shoring up weak links in the economy.
今年，国有企业将在保持生产和供应链稳定、支撑经济薄弱环节方面发挥更大作用。
Sinopec launched a hydrogen supply center in Shanghai in late September, where hydrogen was offered at around 40 yuan ($6.27) per kilogram－a price almost equivalent to using gasoline in a car, according to Shanghai Petrochemical, despite the fact the weak hydrogen refueling service network restricts the center to supply only to public transport vehicles.
中石化于9月底在上海成立了一个氢气供应中心，据上海石化称，该中心的氢气价格约为每公斤40元（6.27美元），几乎相当于汽车汽油的价格，尽管该中心的加氢服务网络薄弱，只能向公共交通工具供应氢气。
The two sides will jointly conduct exchange and research on ASEAN clean energy, while strengthening development and innovation of new technologies to address the weak links in new energy and industrial development in the region, it said.
双方将共同开展东盟清洁能源的交流与研究，同时加强新技术的开发和创新，以解决该地区新能源和工业发展的薄弱环节。
Advertising revenue growth also slowed to 5 percent, with Tencent expecting weak momentum to continue in the months to come, citing macro challenges and regulations affecting certain key advertising sectors.
广告收入增长也放缓至5%，腾讯预计未来几个月将继续保持疲软势头，理由是宏观挑战和监管影响了某些关键广告行业。
However, the intake of various trace elements is still insufficient, and their cognition is relatively weak.
The little giant companies, which are able to fill in certain weak niches for the country, will help improve the industry and supply chains, and enable China to become a manufacturing powerhouse," said Li Chao, chief economist of Zheshang Securities.
For example, tenacity is an inseparable part of an enterprise growing from weak to strong, and mountaineering is the same.
Its ratio of special mention loans, potentially weak loans presenting an unwarranted credit risk, was 2.21 percent of total lending, down 0.5 percentage points during the same period.
Wang Sangui, director of the National Poverty Alleviation Research Institute at Renmin University of China, said continuous efforts are required to empower rural people, as rural regions in China have a weak industry profile and cannot generate enough income for local residents.
"The strong see changes as opportunities while the weak see changes as frustration," he said.
The document contains scaled-up measures to ensure that the country can win the battle against poverty across the board, besides strengthening weak links in rural areas and certain agricultural production areas.
It offset a relatively weak demand for chips used in servers.
Samsung said mobile demand for DRAM chips would increase in the fourth quarter with new smartphone launches, while server demand for DRAM would remain weak amid the continued inventory adjustment.
Mobile demand for NAND flash memory chips would rise in the fourth quarter on the back of improving consumer sentiment and demand from Chinese manufacturers, while server demand for server solid state drive (SSD) would remain weak amid the inventory adjustment, Samsung noted.
Eager to stabilize the agricultural sector and harness the role of rural areas, China's first policy document of the year contains scaled-up measures to ensure that the country can win the battle against poverty across the board as well as strengthen weak links in rural areas and certain agricultural production areas.
The credit reporting system is weak.
"There lies many challenges in making and carrying out such plans, as for a village with weak infrastructure but lots of nice natural views, we always stick to the principles of developing the infrastructure without destroying the traditional remains.
Yet, the case of Luckin proves that the four-tier firewall, despite its weak links, still plays a key role.
However, this growth will be more than offset by weak demand and falling prices in the smartphone market, Richard Gordon, research practice vice-president at Gartner, said in the report.
The balance of special mention loans, potentially weak loans presenting an unwarranted credit risk, amounted to 32.71 billion yuan, representing an increase of 5.98 billion yuan from the previous year.
The sequencing platform also effectively and efficiently complements the current PCR test, and enhances reliable testing for weak positive cases in a substantially shorter time.
The pound has remained weak against the yuan since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, making Britain an attractive destination for Chinese investors.
However, common pain points lie in its weak brand power, lack of membership system and the consequent deficiency in service standardization, the report said.
They were pessimistic about sales growth on the major shopping festival due to weak consumer spending and sluggish economic growth and some even raised speculation that the sales figures were faked, he said.
To defend the peg, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city's de-facto central bank, buys local dollars if it gets too weak and sells to curb excessive strength.
Experts attributed this trend to weak links between new generations of company managements and evolving corporate values, which eroded the credibility of brands built over several decades.
"The industrial profit decreased due to weak factory activity and mounting downward pressure," Tang said.
Endeavoring to provide more efficient and high-quality services to the real economy, the bank served major national strategies and initiatives, extended significant support to the development of key sectors, and shored up weak links in the economy with innovative services, according to its 2019 interim results announcement.
Special mention loans, potentially weak loans presenting an unwarranted credit risk, accounted for 2.71 percent of total loans, falling 21 basis points during the same period.
"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.
Trading in Douyu shares got off to a weak start on Wednesday when it opened at $11.02, down 4.2 percent from its initial public offering price of $11.5 per share.
Quanjude's recent numbers have been weak.
Although Suning has many retail formats, its grocery and fresh food arms are still weak.
Xiaomi reported a strong growth in smartphones in the first quarter compared to its weak fourth quarter performance last year.
There were a booming demand for long products while a weak demand for flat products from the automotive industry, it said.
"It is remarkable to get the funding amid the current weak financing market," said Co-Chief Executive Jessica Tan, who in charge of the technology division, said in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
He believes that China will become a global power in pharmaceutical innovation in the next five years, despite constraints like the relatively weak basic scientific research in molecular science, and the shortage of physician scientists.
Compared with the leading liquor maker Kweichow Moutai Group, SJF is still weak in its star products, brand history and brand value, not to mention national influence.
Owing to his age, Pa Sekibo's voice was weak and his footsteps were slow.
Apple investors have been worried about China since the company last month lowered guidance for the quarter due to economic pressures in the region and weak iPhone sales.
“Apple and Cook face one of their most challenging growth periods in the company’s history with weak iPhone sales in China being the ‘albatross around its neck’ showing no signs of abating over the next few quarters, a dynamic that will be an overhang on the stock for the next 6 to 9 months with the China trade talks adding to the agita for investors,” Wedbush Securities analysts Daniel Ives and Strecker Backe wrote in a research note.
Analysts estimate that Apple will cut orders to Foxconn by 20 to 30 percent, mainly due to weak demand for the iPhone XR and XS Max.
Apple Inc lowered its revenue forecast for the first time in almost two decades, amid fewer upgrades to its flagship iPhone and weak performance in China as it faces rising competition from Huawei Technologies Co. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said in a letter to investors that the US tech giant slashed its revenue guidance to $84 billion for the quarter ended Dec 29, down from earlier estimates of $89 billion to $93 billion.
Analysts estimate that Apple cut orders to Foxconn by 20 to 30 percent earlier this month, mainly due to weak demand for the iPhone XR and XS Max.
Hong Shibin, a home appliance industry analyst, said Media has its advantages in air conditioning business, but is relatively weak in the segment of washing machines.
When the country started its reform and opening-up, we had a weak foundation and we had to make more efforts than others to stand out.
Some educational institutions are relatively weak to run a business efficiently.
Against a backdrop of weak global growth, and a slowdown in cross-border investment and international trade, the recovery and steady growth in higher-quality investment into and out of China will support the vitality and resilience of global trade and investment flows, the survey report said.
The system, translated as "Squirrel AI", is able to divide knowledge into what the company defined as "nanoscale" chunks, so that students can focus on their weak chunks instead of wasting time on what they have already mastered.
"The demand (for heavy machinery) was weak in China from 2012 to the end of 2016, and since then, we have seen rising demand, which we believe is a cyclical recovery," said Chen.
"There is a gap between China's design industry and those of foreign countries, because of our relatively weak industrial foundations and lack of high-end talent," said Lei on the sidelines of the ongoing first session of the 13th National People's Congress.
That news came after ratings agency Moody's had, in early December, already downgraded House of Fraser's credit rating due to "weak results in the first three quarters of its fiscal year".
That news came after ratings agency Moody’s had, in early December, already downgraded House of Fraser’s credit rating due to “weak results in the first three quarters of its fiscal year”.
"In Pakistan's Gwadar Port, for example, smooth communication could be hard to achieve due to weak infrastructure there.
Johnson also blamed a weak marketing campaign and email promotions that didn't create a sense of urgency.
The plan had been to take the company public again, but weak sales have prevented that from happening.
Express delivery companies still face many challenges, including weak profitability, said Xu Yong, noting that companies should have targeted development and build a standardization system.
"Due to rising labor costs and weak global market demand, China is veering towards growth reliant on domestic consumption, rather than exports," said Gao Peiyong, director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"The profit growth of SOEs is mainly because of the supply-side structural reforms, the improving international and national economy and weak performance several years ago," says Ji Xiaonan, a former chair of the Board of Supervisors for Key Large-Sized State-Owned Enterprises.
During the first six months of 2017, Syngenta's total sales reached $6.9 billion, 2 percent lower year-on-year, while sales of new products rose 33 percent from a year ago, which enabled the company to partially offset the impact of weak market conditions caused by adverse weather and low commodity prices.
"He added, "Our margins continue to face strong downward pressure from increased competition and oil prices, and we still face weak economic and uncertain political realities in many parts of the world.
As landlords will select the best timing to sell their houses, tenants could rarely find high quality houses for long-term rent, which has become a weak link on the supply-side of the housing market," Li said.
The traditional interior decoration industry faces challenges in the form of labor-intensive business, low entry barriers and weak monitoring of quality standards due to unprofessional managers and workers with suboptimal skills.
In contrast, during the same period last year, Sinopec reported a 21.6 percent drop in net profits due to persistently weak oil prices.
China should also intensify efforts to clear out zombie enterprises, or weak businesses that are not viable, usually in industries with severe overcapacity and kept alive only with aid from the government and banks, according to the financial work conference.
Sales in Britain remained strong, although growth has slowed, while the Americas remained weak.
"But the chances are very low given that LeEco is so weak financially that almost no bank is willing to lend Jia money," Shen said.
"Even though the world's shipping market has limped along since 2009 because of weak demand, the Belt and Road Initiative can effectively offer a lifeline to ailing global shipping companies," said Dong Liwan, a professor at Shanghai Maritime University.
The nation's child safety awareness is weak.
To improve its growth quality and efficiency, China began its supply-side structural reform in 2015 to cut overcapacity, reduce inventory, deleverage, lower costs and strengthen weak links.
"We had forecasted 0.8 percent growth for global trade last year, it was a year in which global goods trade was a little bit weak in terms of performance.
More efforts will be made to better implement the existing supportive policies and encourage more private capital to participate in the construction of major projects at the national level and projects that address weak links in the economy.
Exports are also likely to pick up amid improving global demand for electronics and technology products, Wang said, adding that the weak property sector's drag on the economy may narrow as real estate development investment may stabilize and pick up in the second half of the year.
However, the property sector remained weak, with real estate development investment down 9.4 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2023.
Their comments came after the country's top economic regulator pledged greater efforts to stimulate private investment and encourage more private capital to participate in the construction of major projects at the national level and projects that address weak links in the economy.