Eric has a weakness for money.
埃里克爱钱如命。
Mary thinks that crying is a sign of weakness.
玛丽认为哭是懦弱的表现。
One of his main
weaknesses is procrastination.
（他的主要弱点之一是拖延。）
Her weakness for chocolate is no secret in the office.
（她对巧克力的喜爱在办公室里已不是秘密。）
The team's defense has been a notable weakness this season.
（这个赛季，球队的防守成了一个显著的弱点。）
His public speaking skills were a weakness he needed to improve upon.
（公开演讲技巧是他需要改进的一个弱点。）
The company's financial instability is a critical weakness that investors are wary of.
（公司的财务不稳定是一个关键弱点，投资者对此持谨慎态度。）
She acknowledged her weakness in math but was determined to overcome it.
（她承认自己在数学方面的弱点，但决心要克服它。）
The story's plot had several
weaknesses that made it predictable.
（这个故事的情节有几个弱点，导致它变得可以预见。）
His physical strength was impressive, but his lack of endurance was a weakness.
（他的体力给人印象深刻，但耐力不足是一个弱点。）
The software has a security weakness that could be exploited by hackers.
（该软件存在一个安全漏洞，可能被黑客利用。）
Identifying and addressing personal
weaknesses is crucial for personal growth.
（识别并解决个人弱点对于个人成长至关重要。）
Vyvgart (efgartigimod alfa injection) is used to treat generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), a chronic autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness.
Vyvgart（efgartigimod-alfa注射液）用于治疗全身性重症肌无力（gMG），这是一种导致肌肉无力的慢性自身免疫性疾病。
The disease gMG, which is characterized by debilitating and potentially life-threatening muscle weakness, was listed in the rare disease catalogue issued by five national ministries and commissions in China in 2018.
gMG以衰弱和可能危及生命的肌肉无力为特征，被列入2018年中国五个国家部委发布的罕见病目录。
The disease affects skeletal muscles throughout the body, resulting in weakness and fatigue.
这种疾病影响全身骨骼肌，导致虚弱和疲劳。
The injection, which provides an innovative treatment option for such patients -- who represent 85 percent of the total population suffering from this chronic neuromuscular disease characterized by debilitating and potentially life-threatening muscle weakness -- was developed by Argenx.
Argenx开发了这种注射剂，为这些患者提供了一种创新的治疗选择，这些患者占患有这种慢性神经肌肉疾病的总人口的85%，其特征是衰弱和可能危及生命的肌肉无力。
According to Xie Fayan, co-founder of Paperang at Zuoyebang, the gadget is able to provide students with personalized learning suggestions and plans focusing on their weaknesses, with support of Zuoyebang's leading technologies in AI and big data as well as teaching resources.
据作业帮联合创始人谢发炎介绍，这款设备利用作业帮在人工智能和大数据领域的领先技术以及教学资源，能够为学生提供个性化的学习建议和针对他们弱项的学习计划。
Han Mengying, an analyst at market consultancy Analysys, said the popularity and market share of online shared accommodation booking platforms are less than hotels, and its nonstandardized and community-based services－which are advantages in normal times－have become fatal weaknesses due to the epidemic.
"We would recommend that investors who can look into (the second half of 2020) and beyond should use weakness to accumulate best-in-class companies with a solid structural outlook," Credit Suisse analysts said in a research note.
We hope to supplement schools and help students to improve their weaknesses," said Yu.
"Therefore they can combine them with local realities by learning from their strengths and overcoming their weaknesses, as they can create localized smart road safety solutions.
Mortgage broker LendingTree identified Michigan as the state with the highest risk of a recession in the fourth quarter because of recent months of higher unemployment and weakness in wages.
Zhang went on to remark that model is hugely important in systematically shoring up the points of weakness in economically underdeveloped regions and helping them develop.
Suri told the Financial Times newspaper that a more fragmented approach to security in the telecom supply chain,triggered by Washington's claims that weaknesses in Huawei's hardware and software mean its equipment could facilitate spying, would likely delay the rollout of 5G technology and make it more expensive.
"We are now seeing that many Chinese companies have become fast learners in these fields and begun to deploy more resources to offset their previous weakness," she said.
However, my office has identified weaknesses with FAA oversight of ODA.
The department store format is a weakness for Suning, which has its own retail stores and community-based fresh-goods shops, said Yu from Kantar.
The method can surpass the algorithm-based process which makes use of human weaknesses in seeking novelty, gossip and emotional things, said Li.
XCMG converted the slump into an opportunity to review its weaknesses and come up with corresponding solutions.
Once they lost their strength (which lay in the lower cost of labor and materials), they found themselves in a position of passive weakness," Shen Difan, general manager of Ali-Express, said.
Qian said the company is overturning weaknesses seen among most players in the sector, including high prices and inconvenient sales models.
According to the government work report delivered at the ongoing session of the NPC, China will launch an initiative to shore up weaknesses in major equipment manufacturing amid efforts to become a global manufacturing giant.
Peer pressure must be factored in to understand this fear of weakness.
"We are programmed to be tough by biographies and articles that tell us to show no weakness and lead our team to success," Yu said.
But the reality is that startup founders are just as prone to basic human weaknesses as everyone else," she said.
"Carriers' inability to drive rates upwards during the seasonally stronger third quarter despite robust demand growth and continued rate weakness in October and November is expected to weigh down the earnings performance in the fourth quarter of the year," said the report.
However, given that the size of green industries and high-tech sectors remains limited and cannot fully make up for the contraction in demand exacerbated by property sector weakness, Wang said China's economy still faces a prominent problem of insufficient effective demand.
There was a strong rebound in the first quarter due to adjusted COVID-19 policies, but weaker growth in the second quarter amid sluggish domestic and external demand, renewed property sector weakness and rising local government debt pressures.
由于调整了COVID-19政策，第一季度出现了强劲反弹，但第二季度的增长势头减弱，主要原因是国内和外部需求疲软、房地产行业再度走弱以及地方政府债务压力上升。
Both the IMF and the World Bank have cited continued weakness in the real estate sector and persistently sluggish global demand as factors that clouded the outlook.
However, China's economic outlook is clouded by continued weakness in the real estate sector and tepid global demand in the short term, as well as structural constraints to growth, including high debt levels and population aging.
Economists: Focus should be on tasks such as spending on big-ticket itemsChina is likely to take more steps to revive consumer demand and boost spending appetites next year as it seeks to inject strong impetus into a consumption-led recovery amid pressure from subdued demand and property sector weakness, economists said on Wednesday.
The sustained economic weakness in the US and geopolitical conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have heightened global economic and political uncertainties, contributing to increased safe-haven demand and leading to heightened need for gold as a value-preserving asset.
The National Bureau of Statistics said services, retail sales and industrial production sped up year-on-year in October, but fixed-asset investment decelerated amid protracted property sector weakness, with more large and medium-sized cities reporting dips in home prices over September.
Despite the improvement in some key indicators, she said the drag from the property sector intensified in October, estimating that the weakness in housing sales, starts and investments may remain through 2024, given the property correction process.
Despite the improvement in some key indicators, she said the drag from the property sector intensified in October, estimating that the weakness in housing salesand investments may stay through 2024, given the property correction process.
The IMF, however, cautioned that growth could slow in 2024 amid property market weakness and subdued external demand.
However, seeing short-term downward risks to China's economic growth amid renewed weakness in the property sector, a new report by the International Monetary Fund expects China's economy to expand by 5 percent in 2023 and 4.2 percent in 2024, a downward revision of 0.2 and 0.3 percentage points, respectively, from April.
The WEO, published on Tuesday, has lowered the 2023 economic growth forecast for China to 5 percent from 5.2 percent, citing the pressures brought by the weakness in the real estate sector.
While most hard macro data is now on a firmer footing than in July, Loo said there remain two lingering areas of weakness — property and sentiment.
Nevertheless, Khor acknowledged that China's inflation will likely remain low for the remainder of the year, thanks in part to bumper food harvests as well as weakness in consumer spending due to spillovers from the sluggish real estate sector and external demand.
Still, vigilance is required: a prolonged period of demand weakness could lead to supply outstripping demand on a structural basis, which would exacerbate deflation risks.
However, the lingering weakness of the real estate market and private investment indicates that more property easing and fiscal and monetary stimulus measures are still likely in the offing in order to consolidate the stabilization in economic growth, they said.
However, the IMF document noted that continued weakness in the real estate sector is weighing on investment, foreign demand remains weak as the global economy slows, and rising youth unemployment indicates labor market weakness, meaning that following a reopening boost, China's recovery is losing steam.
"The Caixin Services PMI for May indicates an overall improvement in services, despite signs of weakness in employment and market expectations.
"Even though there's been a little bit of weakness in some of the April numbers, we still think that the recovery is on track," he said, adding that the ADB will probably upgrade its forecast for China's GDP growth when releasing its upcoming report in June, given that China's economic performance in the first quarter was beyond market expectations.
Yin said the indexes analyzed strength and weakness of the area objectively and scientifically, which will help improve governance and promote sustainable development.
He also called for efforts to improve the country's resilience and the security of industrial and supply chains while paying close attention to addressing weaknesses and enhancing strengths.
According to Loo, more modest industrial production reflects weaknesses in external demand.
Government investment and policy incentives should effectively drive investment, it said, adding that more private capital should be encouraged and attracted into major state projects and projects aimed at addressing areas of weakness.
Joong Shik Kang, deputy mission chief for China at the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific Department, said further monetary accommodation and neutral fiscal policy are necessary for China, and such policies can help protect the nation's consumption-led recovery from the risks of slowing global growth and real estate weakness.
However, manufacturing sector activity is still relatively sluggish, which we believe is related to the still tepid demand and other aspects, including export weakness.
A worldwide pandemic has killed millions, battered economies and exposed weaknesses in supply chains.
"The action plan of Shanghai's optimization of the business environment is very encouraging," Zhang said, adding that improving facilitation and efficiency, addressing weaknesses in the business environment and benchmarking the new evaluation method of the World Bank will be the three steps taken by the city this year.
China has remained a glimmer of hope despite the bleak outlook of the global economy grappling with recession fears and persistent economic weakness.
There are several reasons leading to the short-term consumption weakness.
Such driving force is critical at a time when economic downward pressures remain heavy due to a rise in COVID-19 cases, slowing exports and the lingering weakness of the real estate sector, Luo said.
Zheng Houcheng, director of Yingda Securities Research Institute, said the country's PPI growth may stay negative on a yearly basis in November due to the weakness of domestic real estate investment and global manufacturing activity.
Experts said stepped-up monetary support to boost investment is expected to buffer the downside risks of real estate weakness and COVID-19 uncertainties, helping China's economic growth to pick up in the fourth quarter.
The renminbi is expected to experience a period of weakness due to these factors, but it will not plummet.
Eyes now on National Congress to show where country's path liesThere is nothing quite like a crisis to expose the weaknesses in systems and societies.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said that the country must study and come up with new ideas and measures to address weaknesses and shortcomings in the economy while making greater efforts to consolidate its foundations and make full use of national advantages.
Wang Yiming, vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, warned of challenges and pressures from weakening demand, renewed weakness in the property sector and a more complicated external environment, saying that the key is to focus on boosting domestic demand and fostering new growth drivers.
Looking to the third and fourth quarters of the year, Zheng Houcheng, director of the Yingda Securities Research Institute, warned of pressures from a cloudy global economic outlook, continuing COVID-19 outbreaks and persistent weakness in the property market, saying it is necessary for the government to place the task of stabilizing growth high on the agenda, further expand demand and roll out supportive measures when necessary.
The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the existence of the vaccine divide, has not become an opportunity for global cooperation and collaboration, but rather, exposed the weaknesses of global governance, strengthened the hand of protectionism and furthered the spread of inflation.
The US believes that, as the TPP failed, its "Indo-Pacific "strategy that aims at strengthening its regional dominance still has weaknesses in terms of economics and trade.
The meeting pointed out that efforts to expand effective investment should prioritize projects that will not only strengthen areas of weakness and facilitate structural adjustments, but also boost consumption and create jobs.
He said that consumption remained weak as households remained cautious against COVID infections, with labor market weakness compounding the problem.
"But we don't expect additional cuts as the policy divergence with the US and renminbi weakness will act as constraints," Wu added.
The report said China's investment growth, driven by infrastructure investment, is projected to accelerate, partly offsetting weakness in real consumption growth.
According to the report, the investment growth, driven by infrastructure investment, is projected to accelerate, partly offsetting weakness in real consumption growth.
Other indicators in the sector also signaled weakness, showing that the overall property downtrend has not fundamentally changed.
"We are seeing additional weaknesses in the global economy," Gita Gopinath, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), told Xinhua in an interview at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland.
Data from China Real Estate Information Corp pointed to the persistent weakness of the sector, as sales of China's top 100 developers declined by 47 percent year-on-year in the first quarter.
While the property sector continues to suffer from weakness, and geopolitical tensions have inflated commodity prices and could exert pressure on China's trade surplus, it is necessary for macroeconomic policies to more forcefully and effectively buffer the headwinds, said Zhu Haibin, J. P. Morgan's chief China economist.
"The move reflects (the central bank's) growing concerns over the weakness of domestic demand toward the end of 2021, but does not signal a move away from the emphasis on containing financial sector risks," said a report published by the World Bank last week.
Meantime, more policy adjustments are on the way to address imbalances in growth and the structural weakness that is partly reflected in the price gap of producers and consumers.
Closer international cooperationCOVID-19 continues to impact global economic and social development, posing unprecedented challenges to global economic recovery and sustainable development, and exposing many weaknesses in the global governance system, said BFA Secretary-General Li Baodong at a press conference.
"Even with an easing of supply side pressures, however, we expect GDP growth will soften significantly in Q4, largely due to the real estate weakness," Kuijs said.
"The paper noted that China now suffers a dependence on semiconductors and lags behind in aeronautics, but "Beijing knows its weaknesses and intends to eliminate them. "
Xiao Yaqing, minister of industry and information technology, said more efforts are needed to make up for shortcomings and weaknesses in supply chains to ensure that industry chains are reliable at crucial time.
"After carefully and comprehensively analyzing 41 major industries and their sub-categories, we drew a map of key industry chains and found the blank points, as well as the weaknesses and shortcomings," Xiao said.
In a political environment in which the two major political parties have reached a consensus and regard China as a strategic competitor, any weakness in policy toward China could be considered to be damaging.
It also shows continued weakness in the appetite for business expansion, suggesting that businesses are not planning for spikes in demand," said Shen Lan, an economist with Standard Chartered China.
“这也显示出企业对扩张业务的意愿持续疲软，表明企业并未为需求激增做好规划，”渣打银行中国经济学家沈岚表示。
If it is difficult to increase household incomes, and if effective demand is inadequate in the downstream supply chain, commodity price hikes will show signs of weakness.
Higher wages for additional work may appear as the silver lining of the dark cloud of COVID-19, which has affected many companies' operations and people's daily lives, and revealed many weaknesses in the global supply chain, like limited shipping capacity and shutdowns of both plants and ports across the world.
""We expect robust sequential economic growth will resume after temporary weakness in Q1 (the first quarter) and are optimistic about exports and manufacturing investment," said the think tank, noting that consumption should "gain pace again as consumers become more comfortable with public health conditions and their economic situation.
""We expect economic growth momentum to gain pace again after the temporary weakness in Q1 (the first quarter)," said the think tank, noting the fact that domestic travel and logistics "returned to 'normal' in March, and we look for consumption momentum to see a more visible improvement in the second half of the year 2021.
The IMF official said fiscal policy can also help rebalancing the Chinese economy, noting that one concern around the performance of the Chinese economy in 2020 is the weakness of private consumption.
Encouraging foreign investment in these industries will help reinforce the strengths of China's industrial network while overcoming its weaknesses, thus promoting the upgrade of the industrial and supply chains.
The model helped manufacturers to promote innovation, reduce costs and strengthen areas of weakness during the shopping festival period.
该模型帮助制造商在购物节期间推动创新，降低成本，并强化薄弱环节。
Through the BRI, countries and regions are able to further tap each other's potentials in trade and investment by exploiting advantages, maximizing strengths and overcoming weaknesses, he said.
"That China was able to grow as fast as it did given the weakness all across the rest of the global economy right now, is quite remarkable," CNBC quoted Steve Cochrane, chief APAC economist at Moody's Analytics, as saying.
Meanwhile, Gopinath cautioned that China will also be under risks if there is "continued weakness in the global economy," adding that it's important for the global economy also to recover.
Chinese PV firms lead the world, but overcapacity, price weakness loomChina's solar industry climbed to new heights in 2023, with manufacturing, installed capacity and exports experiencing robust growth and reshaping the global landscape with continuous technological breakthroughs.
中国光伏企业全球领先，但产能过剩与价格疲软隐忧显现
2023年，中国的太阳能产业攀登至全新高度，其在制造、装机容量和出口方面均实现了强劲增长，并通过持续的技术突破重塑了全球格局。
Song Zhigang, deputy general manager of Chinese industrial internet company Inspur Yunzhou, which provides the industrial internet platform for the Jinan workshop, said the company has developed precise construction plans for the factory to quickly locate and overcome its weaknesses and bottlenecks.
That said, weakness in private investment and the property sector continued amid the broader gradual recovery in domestic demand.
"Without such structural policy shifts, solely amplifying monetary and fiscal stimulus, perhaps with a focus on infrastructure and investment, could worsen structural weakness in domestic demand and even exacerbate the pressure of low price growth, he said.
Yao said pioneering manufacturing enterprises empowering the medical device sector helps the sector break the foreign monopoly, make up for industrial chain weaknesses and realize high-end development.
However, under the impact of multiple factors, the upstream and downstream circulation obstacles in the industrial chains and supply chains have increased recently, and the weaknesses of some links have become prominent, Fu said.
Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank, said China is facing pressures from softer external demand, sluggish domestic consumption and renewed weaknesses in the property market.
As many countries face economic weakness and the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze spending, consumer-driven demand will likely soften, although there should be pockets of strength," she added.
Demand from jewelry and industrial applications in the second half may be sluggish due to a slower economy and lower consumer spending, while investment demand for gold may stay strong, offsetting the weakness in jewelry and industrial orders, Zhu added.