Please give me a brush.
请给我一把刷子。
The brush did not last long.
刷子没用多久。
Brush your teeth.
刷刷你的牙齿。
I have a brush with my colleague.
我和我同事小吵了一架。
I need to brush my teeth before I can eat breakfast.
我需要刷牙才能吃早餐。
She lovingly brushed the cat's fur.
她温柔地梳理着猫咪的毛发。
He picked up a paintbrush and started painting the wall.
他拿起画笔开始在墙上作画。
The artist meticulously brushed on the final details of the portrait.
艺术家仔细地给肖像画上最后的细节。
She uses a toothbrush with an electric motor for extra cleaning power.
她使用电动牙刷以获得更强的清洁力。
The gardener brushed off the dust from his hands after planting the flowers.
园丁种花后擦去手上的灰尘。
I'll brush through my notes before the meeting starts.
会议开始前我会快速浏览一下笔记。
The hairdresser carefully brushed through her client's long, flowing locks.
美发师细心地梳理客户的长发。
The mechanic used a wire brush to clean the engine's surface.
机械师用钢丝刷清理发动机表面。
She brushed away a tear from her cheek as she listened to the sad story.
她听着悲伤的故事，从脸颊上拂去一滴眼泪。
She added that they also brought Chinese ink brush artist Chen Jiu in to refresh the brand's visual identity as inspired by classical Chinese opera to offer guests a more distinctive cultural experience.
她补充说，他们还请来了中国水墨艺术家陈酒，以中国古典戏曲为灵感，刷新品牌的视觉形象，为客人提供更独特的文化体验。
Evowera said it has developed technologies that focus on superimposed brush oscillation besides just simple left and right vibration, and such a design helps raise the cleaning efficiency of toothbrushes.
Evowera表示，除了简单的左右振动外，它还开发了专注于叠加刷振的技术，这种设计有助于提高牙刷的清洁效率。
Booming sales of power brush in nation attract more investment, participationUnited States oral hygiene brand Oral-B, a sub-brand of drug giant Procter & Gamble, is stepping up its push to tap Generation Z consumers in China, which has been the world's largest market for electric toothbrushes since last year.
电动牙刷在中国的蓬勃销售吸引了更多的投资，美国口腔卫生品牌oral-B，制药巨头宝洁的子品牌，正在加紧努力挖掘中国的Z世代消费者，自去年以来，中国一直是世界上最大的电动牙刷市场。
There is still huge upside to this market, given that only 10 percent of consumers are using power brushes today, said Vedran Miletic, president of P&G Greater China Oral Care.
宝洁大中华区口腔护理总裁Vedran Miletic表示，鉴于目前只有10%的消费者使用电动牙刷，这个市场仍有巨大的优势。
"The (Chinese power brush) market is likely to sustain a high double-digit growth for the years ahead until a similar level of power brush penetration is reached in China versus the US and Europe," Miletic said.
Miletic表示：“（中国电刷）市场在未来几年可能会保持两位数的高增长，直到中国的电刷渗透率达到与美国和欧洲类似的水平。”。
"Chinese consumers are leading the world in embracing new technologies and smart devices," Miletic said, adding the brand has received very positive feedback from many consumers on their experience with Oral-B iO, a brush that has a smart pressure sensor to guide users to apply optimal cleaning pressure.
Miletic表示：“中国消费者在接受新技术和智能设备方面处于世界领先地位。
"Certainly, power brushes have become a very competitive category in China, with hundreds of brands being launched in recent years.
“当然，电动刷在中国已经成为一个极具竞争力的类别，近年来推出了数百个品牌。
"Oral-B has many suppliers, manufacturing operations and partners in China, which has helped deliver great continuity of Oral-B power brush supply for its consumers across the nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he said.
他说：“Oral-B在中国有许多供应商、制造业务和合作伙伴，这有助于在新冠肺炎大流行期间为全国消费者提供Oral-B电源刷供应的巨大连续性。
After building up momentum in China for 26 years, a South Korean manufacturer of makeup brushes is planning to expand its business even further, thanks to favorable policies it enjoys in North China.
一家韩国化妆品刷具制造商在中国市场耕耘了26年，如今正计划进一步拓展业务，这得益于其在中国北方所享受的优惠政策。
The company has made high-end makeup brushes for over two decades, but the products were made for brands in other countries, including the United States and Japan.
该公司二十多年来一直生产高端化妆刷，但这些产品是为其他国家的品牌制造的，包括美国和日本在内。
Bae, 48, came to Qingxian in 1998, following his father who invested in a factory there and employed locals to produce makeup brushes.
1998年，48岁的裴跟着父亲来到青县。父亲在那里投资建厂，雇用当地人生产化妆刷。
"Back then, the county had developed a mature industry of making woolen sweaters, which helped nurtured a bunch of skilled workers familiar with wool techniques that are needed for making brush tips," Bae said, adding that lower-cost labor and a wealth of raw material supplies were also among the reasons they came to the county, which is about 170 kilometers southeast of Beijing and 80 km southwest of Tianjin.
“那时,这个县的羊毛衫产业已经很成熟了,培养了一大批掌握羊毛制品技术的熟练工人,而这些技术正是制作笔头所需要的,”裴万胜说。他说,较低的劳动力成本和丰富的原材料供应也是他们选择这个距北京东南170公里、距天津西南80公里的县的原因。
"More challenging was that overseas customers did not welcome makeup brushes made in China back then, because the industry's development had just started in the country.
更具挑战性的是,那时候海外客户对中国产的化妆刷并不买账——彼时,中国的化妆刷行业刚刚起步。
Fortunately, the situation changed after about a decade when customers began to realize that a great amount of makeup brushes of high quality were actually being made in China.
幸运的是,十年后情况发生了变化,顾客开始意识到大量的高质量化妆刷其实都是在中国制造的。
"It's very natural that some would like to do their own business after gaining skills and knowledge about makeup brushes," Bae said, adding that there is little competition between foreign-invested companies and local ones because they target different markets－local brands usually sell domestically while foreign counterparts eye overseas markets.
“在掌握化妆刷的技能和知识后,一些人想要自己创业是很自然的事,”裴说。她还表示,外资企业和本土企业之间的竞争不大,因为二者瞄准的是不同的市场——本土品牌通常主攻国内市场,而外资企业则将目光投向海外。
Among the oldest brands are writing brush manufacturer Zhouhuchen and ink stick manufacturer Caosugong, which were founded in 1694 and 1667 respectively.
"Chinese businesses should unite and brush aside attempts to sow discord," Liu added.
Focus Tech's arm InQbrands pushes Chinese small businesses to succeed overseasWhen you buy a made-in-China paint brush, a photo frame or a similar low-value product, chances are you would not bother to know more about its manufacturer.
True to its stated mission, InQbrands helped Wolf Paint Supply Co, a Chinese paint brush producer, to develop its new logo－a wolf howling in the woods－in August 2017.
Its specially-designed brush varieties are priced between $5 and $13 each.
Apple replaced the old logo, consisting of a pencil, ruler and brush, with the current one on its iOS and MacOS devices this year.
Holding a pair of brushes — one with pigment and the other with water — Tian Lili paints peonies on a 1.8-meter-long paper on Monday at a painting cooperative in Hongmiao village of Juye county, Shandong province.
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Hu Na sat in front of her workbench and did a livestreaming demonstration on e-commerce platform Taobao on how to create a makeup brush.
"The brush will meet quality standards only when its bristles are full and symmetrical," said the 38-year-old skilled worker in Cangzhou's Qingxian county, Hebei province.
There are over 16,000 workers like Hu involved in producing makeup brushes in Qingxian, which is about 170 kilometers southeast of downtown Beijing.
Each year, the workers can produce more than half of the makeup brushes sold in the country, local officials said.
Last year, revenue produced by the county's makeup brush industry reached 1.9 billion yuan ($275.8 million), about 8.5 percent of which was export earnings.
The county has developed into one of the nation's biggest producers of makeup brushes.
There are 253 brush manufacturers, among which 16 are built with foreign investment, and more than 1,000 factories make related and supporting materials.
"We have such a large market share because we have more than two decades of history in making makeup brushes," said Kang Shaoxing, president of the Qingxian Makeup Brush Industry Association.
"It's the most demanding and difficult step in the process of creating makeup brushes," Hu said, adding that it normally takes years of practice to master the skill.
"If the step is done well, the brush will be more precise and comfortable for customers to use and can greatly enhance fine results when applying makeup," she said.
Each box contains a brush, a miniature shovel and a replica of one of the museum's cultural relics, which is encased in a clod of earth, in a can.
One county near Beijing, Tianjin makes half of nation's outputChinese-made makeup brushes have seen robust sales in the country since last year, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, which left many consumers stuck at home, creating more time to shop online.
京、津附近一县，产全国半数化妆刷；自去年以来，即便在新冠疫情导致众多消费者居家隔离、网购时间增多的背景下，国产化妆刷仍在国内市场实现了强劲销售。
There were more than 21,000 manufacturers of makeup brushes in China by the end of last year.
截至去年年底，中国有超过21000家化妆刷制造商。
When thinking of quality makeup brushes, famous brands from developed countries such as Japan's Chikuhodo often come to mind.
谈及优质化妆刷，人们往往会想到诸如日本Chikuhodo等来自发达国家的知名品牌。
However, Qingxian county in Cangzhou, Hebei province, has emerged as one of the country's largest makeup brush manufacturing areas.
然而，河北省沧州市青县却已成为全国最大的化妆刷生产地区之一。
"About half of the brushes made domestically are from the county and the quality of our brushes can compete with big name international brands," said Kang Shaoxing, president of the Qingxian Makeup Brush Industry Association.
“大约半数的国产化妆刷产自本县，且我们刷具的质量完全可以与国际大品牌相抗衡。”青县化妆刷行业协会会长康绍兴如是说。
His confidence comes from the fact that the county has rich experience in manufacturing brushes for luxury international brands since the 1990s, when the first brush maker in Qingxian was established by a businessman from South Korea.
他的信心源于这样一个事实：自1990年代以来，该县便积累了为国际奢侈品牌制造刷具的丰富经验，当时清县的第一家制刷企业由一位韩国商人创立。
About 30 manufacturers of makeup brushes from South Korea have set up shop in Qingxian.
大约有30家来自韩国的化妆刷制造商已在庆县设厂。
With a population of more than 441,000 people, Qingxian now boasts 141 makeup brush manufacturers, including 15 foreign-invested ones, and more than 1,000 factories making related and supporting materials.
庆县现有人口逾44.1万，境内拥有141家化妆刷生产企业，其中外资企业15家，以及逾1000家从事相关配套材料生产的工厂。
The industry employs a total of 16,000 local employees, according to a recent white paper on the county's makeup brush industry.
据近日一份关于该县化妆刷产业的白皮书显示，该行业共吸纳了16,000名本地员工。
Last year, revenue of the makeup brush industry in Qingxian topped 1.5 billion yuan ($232 million), and about 15 percent of which are from exports.
去年，青县美妆刷产业实现产值15亿元人民币（约合2.32亿美元），其中约15%来自出口业务。
Shao Junhua, a local whose career has been involved with brushes from the very beginning, tells a story typical of the development of the county's brush industry.
当地居民邵俊华，其职业生涯自始至终与毛笔紧密相连，他所讲述的故事生动展现了该县毛笔产业的发展历程。
Philip Cox, whose company won the international design competition for the project in 2012, said the elegant, simple layout of the museum, which sits on a manmade bay, features white exhibition halls stretching out like the fingers of a hand, resembling brush strokes in calligraphy.
Taking into account the automobile industry's future trend, such as electric vehicles and intelligent driving, Geely believes traditional automakers should fight through strategic and vertical cooperation to brush off the threat from new players in the internet industry.
To describe Chinese companies exhibiting at the CES 2020, "innovation" is a must keyword when viewing their exhibits -- large as an SUV and small as a U-shaped tooth brush, all with surprising innovative elements.
To rebut the rumor, Liu came forward and released a statement titled "Act, Sworn to Win Lenovo's Honor", and said "Chinese businesses should unite and brush aside attempts to sow discord. "
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