Tom overheard a fragment of their conversation.
汤姆无意中听到他们谈话的片段。
Mary's hand was cut by a fragment of glass.
玛丽的手被一块玻璃碎片划破了。
Ray's day was
fragmented by phone calls.
瑞一整天一直被电话所打断。
"The increasingly diversified and fragmented media environment alongside the continuous innovation and iteration of advertising technology around the world have brought unprecedented changes to the advertising and marketing industry.
“日益多样化和碎片化的媒体环境，以及全球广告技术的不断创新和迭代，给广告和营销行业带来了前所未有的变化。
Also, the past years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, have prompted a surge in online learning platforms and the consolidation of the highly fragmented vocational training industry.
此外，过去几年，特别是在新冠肺炎大流行期间，在线学习平台激增，高度分散的职业培训行业得到巩固。
In terms of the future landscape, Green said in five to 10 years from now, the cybersecurity industry - which is highly fragmented today with around 3,000 players in total - will be highly consolidated at that time, and only very few players can help customers solve the most critical problems, and AI and ML will be essentially on how this gets done.
格林表示，就未来前景而言，从现在起的五到十年内，网络安全行业将高度整合，而只有极少数参与者能够帮助客户解决最关键的问题，而人工智能和ML将主要取决于如何做到这一点。
"In emerging market countries, payment methods are diverse and fragmented, with non-credit card payment methods playing a substantial role.
“在新兴市场国家，支付方式多样且分散，非信用卡支付方式发挥了重要作用。
In the first half of 2023, the report said that by focusing on fragmented categories such as golf, tennis and skiing, closing underperforming stores and expanding its network at high-end commercial developments, Fila's operating profit margin climbed 7.2 percentage points to 29.7 percent in the first six months, compared with the same period last year.
报告称，2023年上半年，Fila专注于高尔夫、网球和滑雪等细分品类，关闭表现不佳的门店，并扩大其高端商业开发网络，与去年同期相比，前六个月的营业利润率上升了7.2个百分点，达到29.7%。
"Family tent users are more fragmented this year when more people can travel overseas or on long-distance trips," said Wang Jigang, founder of TFS Tents.
TFS Tents创始人王继刚表示：“今年家庭帐篷用户更加分散，因为更多的人可以出国旅行或长途旅行。”。
Specifically, unstandardized software development results in efficiency variation and unsatisfactory transition from one procedure to another, thus delaying delivery; the various tools that come with the digital transformation of healthcare are similar to each other and are underperformers in terms of stability, user experience, automation as well as application value; without a unified platform and uniform standards, software development is largely a self-contained, rigid and fragmented process, which is unsustainable in the long run.
具体而言，不标准的软件开发会导致效率变化和从一个程序到另一个程序的过渡不令人满意，从而延迟交付；医疗保健数字化转型带来的各种工具彼此相似，在稳定性、用户体验、自动化以及应用价值方面表现不佳；如果没有统一的平台和统一的标准，软件开发在很大程度上是一个独立、僵化和碎片化的过程，从长远来看是不可持续的。
When it comes to challenges ahead, Srock said that the Chinese low-code market is highly fragmented.
谈到未来的挑战，斯洛克表示，中国的低代码市场高度分散。
Ning Wei, a low-code researcher from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a government think tank, said: "Many Chinese are using low-code to serve fragmented and temporary needs.
中国政府智库中国信息通信技术研究院的低代码研究员宁伟说：“许多中国人正在使用低代码来满足零散和临时的需求。
"At present, the industrial chain for semi-cooked meals is long and fragmented, and the competition in the segment of low-end products is fierce.
“目前，半熟饭的产业链较长且碎片化，低端产品细分市场竞争激烈。
"To make the platform economy normalized means regulatory efforts will become routine and avoid fragmented supervision, which had earlier led authorities to ignore illegal or improper behavior during the sector's nascent phase, only to start regulating it in sudden spurts," Wang said.
王说：“使平台经济正常化意味着监管工作将成为常规，避免分散监管，这在早些时候导致当局忽视了该行业新生阶段的非法或不当行为，但却突然开始对其进行监管。”。
"At present, the industrial chain of pre-prepared meals is long and fragmented, and the competition in the segment of low-end products is fierce.
“目前，预制餐的产业链较长且碎片化，低端产品细分市场竞争激烈。
But when industry chains are fragmented, new demand will emerge.
但当产业链支离破碎时，新的需求就会出现。
But when industry chains are fragmented, new demands will rise and Huawei welcomes more companies to invest into semiconductor manufacturing.
但当产业链分散时，新的需求将上升，华为欢迎更多公司投资半导体制造业。
Retail lower-tier markets in China remain highly fragmented and less penetrated in digitalization, said a report by Frost & Sullivan cited in Huitongda's prospectus.
汇通达招股书中引用的Frost&Sullivan的一份报告称，中国较低级别的零售市场仍然高度分散，数字化渗透程度较低。
For instance, each link of the digital avatar industrial chain is relatively fragmented and could not coordinate efficiently.
例如，数字化身产业链的每个环节都相对分散，无法有效协调。
The hybrid cloud is a cloud computing strategy that integrates a fragmented IT environment composed of a mix of multiple cloud services and traditional on-premise infrastructure and allows shared data and apps between each service.
By integrating fragmented intangible cultural heritage and handicraft resources in the county and helping them to connect with the market, the traditional culture in the area can be revitalized," he said.
What's more exciting is that the highly fragmented market, which covers everything from medicines to drug products manufactured with living organisms, is filled with a legion of smaller firms hoping to take on global pharma giants.
Experts said this had a lot to do with the fragmented Chinese steel industry.
A fragmented market is an accounting burden and the quality of the workspace could vary from one city to the next.
"This is designed on top of the existing OEM channel, adding a new piece to the fragmented, high-frequency, and personalized procurement ordering puzzle.
"As short video apps have a lower threshold than livestreaming service providers, they will easily occupy peoples' fragmented time.
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.
"In the past three years, the company has been combining in-depth big data analytics and AI technology to implement standardized evaluation and intelligent pricing mechanisms for China’s highly fragmented and unregulated used car market.
Led by CEO Wang Gang - an angel investor in ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing - it is trying to bring a fragmented, 5 trillion yuan ($720 billion) arena into the smartphone age.
It is now the second largest player in China's rather fragmented milk tea market, after Yi Dian Dain from Taiwan, which boasts more than two decades of history, according to consultancy Euromonitor International.
"Brands under Amer Sports each have their own strengths in the fragmented market, which is even more enhanced by Amer's management's capacity to manage international markets," the statement said.
"Category segmentation and innovation will be the primary growth drivers of the beverage industry, which has fragmented channels and diverse needs. "
I don't think we have one key competitor in the tea drinking industry today because the market is so fragmented and current players aren't competitive enough.
The premium cell phone fragment grew 19 percent year and 10 percent consecutively during the second quarter finished June.
But the more saturated and fragmented market has put pressure on the chain.
Joseph Seacrist, economic development coordinator at Watertown in New York, underlined the necessity of globalization in today's fragmented world.
Chen Yanlei, vice-president of JD, said: "With the advent of 'unbounded retail', consumer demand has become increasingly fragmented, and demand scenarios have become more instant.
According to Li, the region is fragmented when it comes to economic development and infrastructure provision, resulting in different levels of readiness to embrace digital payments.
Chen Yanlei, vice-president of JD, noted that "with the advent of the era of 'unbounded retail', consumer demand has become increasingly fragmented, and demand scenarios have become more instant.
"I think this orientation is very, very important when coming to China where the market is very fragmented and there is a greater need for transparency.
China has about 19,000 courier companies, most of which are vulnerable small businesses in a fragmented market.
In total, the top 10 players command 14 percent of the market share, which means it is still highly fragmented and dominated by many unknown small brands selling low-priced products.
"Unlike the situation in other markets, such as the UK where 80 percent of wines are purchased in supermarkets, China's wine distribution is highly fragmented, with no channel significantly overwhelming another," said Rodrigo Jackson, managing director of CYT Central Asia.
Thomas Cook China said that while the Chinese travel market is large and fast growing and represents the world's largest number of outbound visitors, it is also very competitive and fragmented.
Such a fragmented structure led to a slate of problems such as scattered investments, redundant construction and disordered internal competition.
Richard Adams, a former McDonald's franchisee who is now a consultant to those businesses, has questioned whether the chain can return to the height of its popularity in such a fragmented marketplace.
However, the market is saturated and highly fragmented, with no player holding more than a 5 percent market share in 2015.
Mattel－which more than halved its dividend to fund the new efforts－said its emphasis on e-commerce and repackaging its core brands as educational toys and connecting them to the internet would boost its standing in the fragmented market.
"The aesthetic medical services market is quite fragmented in China, but its size is expanding fast.
China's $55 billion fragmented footwear market is dominated by sports apparel brands, with Belle the only retailer among the top five that sells mostly fashion shoes.
Bousquet said in this case, airlines don't need to seek different suppliers for fragmented modification services, as such a process was complicated, especially for small and startup airlines.
But now, some of these 'winds' are blowing in different directions due to the rise of geopolitical conflicts, more fragmented ideological differences about the benefits of openness, and the risks of fragmentation in the digital age," Lamy said.
"In an era in which information is fragmented, it is indeed difficult to achieve marketing effects through a variety show.
The top-down structuring will help prevent scattered or fragmented opening-up.
The measures taken by the US to restrict chip exports to China not only violate market principles but also fragment the global semiconductor market, He said, adding that these actions not only harm the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises but also severely impact the interests of global semiconductor companies, including those from the United States.
For the world, decoupling and fragmenting industrial and supply chains instigated by the US does not enhance the resilience of global industrial and supply chains, but makes them more vulnerable and even fragmented," it said.
Such measures will fragment global supply chains.
Shu Jueting, a spokeswoman for the ministry, said at a regular news conference that the unilateral actions taken by the US are intended to fragment the global semiconductor market.
"The situation of slower growth in trade would be made far worse if the world were to decouple or fragment," she said, calling for avoiding trade decoupling, creating resilient global supply chains, relieving the supply-chain tensions caused by the pandemic and regional conflicts, and fully leverage the opportunities for trade growth brought by digital services.
Analysts said this signals the country's resolve to build a fully open market, deepen market-oriented reforms and remove barriers within the fragmented domestic market, which will stimulate market vitality and significantly boost market confidence, especially among foreign businesses.
"My free time tends to be fragmented and short, so browsing news on the platform is the perfect fit when I take the metro.
"A fragmented world is unlikely to achieve progress for all, or to allow us to tackle global challenges such as climate change or pandemic preparedness," Gourinchas wrote in the Foreword to the World Economic Outlook.
Digging through the tunnel was faced with several challenges, including a maximum burial depth of 496.2 meters, fragmented rock formations, fault zones and other complex geological conditions.
Under the theme "cooperation in a fragmented world," many attendees said they believe that China's optimization of its COVID-19 response will lead to more robust and prosperous growth and contribute to the recovery of the global economy.
The theme of the WEF Annual Meeting -- "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" -- "perfectly sets out the dilemma: we need cooperation, yet we face fragmentation," he said.
"Now, more than ever, it's time to forge the pathways to cooperation in our fragmented world.
"How to strengthen cooperation in a fragmented world is a real problem we all face.
Under the theme of "Cooperation in a Fragmented World," the annual meeting focuses on solutions and public-private cooperation to tackle the world's most pressing challenges.
- The theme of this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting is "Cooperation in a fragmented world. "
No word better describes the gloomy state of the global economy than "fragmented.
In the face of a fragmented world, this year's WEF annual meeting emphasizes cooperation.
Summit delegates seeking 'cooperation in our fragmented world' as talks beginThe World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 is underway this week in Davos, Switzerland, to promote "cooperation in a fragmented world" as multiple crises deepen divisions and fragment the geopolitical landscape.
Ignoring multilateral trade rules and conducting trade protectionist measures will not only fragment the global market system and cause disruptions in global supply chains, but also seriously distort global economic governance, said Yi Xiaozhun, former deputy director-general of the WTO.
"In a fragmented world, it risks losing more than anybody else.
"To make the platform economy normalized means regulatory efforts will become routine and avoid fragmented supervision, which had earlier led authorities to ignore illegal or improper behavior during the sector's nascent phase, only to start regulating it in sudden spurts," said Wang, who is also director of the Center for Competition Law and Policy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Carstens said the global trading and financial systems must not be fragmented, adding that countries should implement structural reforms and improve infrastructure and health systems to build more resilient economies.
And e-commerce platforms became increasingly fragmented, with more consumers shifting to options such as Pinduoduo and niche content-driven e-commerce platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou.
"To be normalized is mainly to make regulatory efforts routine and avoid fragmented supervision.
Fragmented supervision is basically ignoring illegal or improper behavior during the initial development stage of a sector but suddenly starting to regulate it," said Wang, who is also director of the Center for Competition Law and Policy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The remarks came after the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly released a guideline on April 10 on accelerating the establishment of a national unified market, aimed at ending local protectionism and unifying the fragmented market to remove key hurdles to economic growth.
"The key to building a new development pattern lies in the unobstructed economic cycle, which requires accelerating the construction of a unified national market as a scattered and fragmented market cannot guarantee the free flow of factors, as well as the fair distribution and smooth circulation of products," said Liu Zhicheng, with the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, a think tank under the National Development and Reform Commission.
The tactics came out of a holistic approach that is to upgrade the previously fragmented pension system like "playing a chess game on a nationwide chessboard.
Previously, the agricultural sector in the county was small-scale and fragmented.
Localized production aims to create more culturally resonant mini-dramas and meet the immediate, fragmented entertainment demands of the audience in a cost-effective manner, said Zhang Yi, CEO and chief analyst at consultancy iiMedia Research.
"My free time tends to be fragmented and short, so browsing short videos is the perfect fit when I take the metro," Zhang, who recently discovered that she had to pay a certain fee to watch some short videos, said.
CADA's He said, "There have been profound changes in products and consumer groups in the beer sector, leading to more variations to push the sector to further expand its categories, overriding boundaries between beverages and liquors to meet demand for diversification and personalization, as the consumption population has become increasingly more fragmented.
It has also transitioned from small-scale fragmented operations to specialized and network-based businesses with local supply chains, reflecting the growing popularity of Chinese cuisine and the global appeal of the nation's culture.
According to BOE, facilities will transform the fragmented data of patients into modular data, and eventually systematic data.
"Unlike the underwear market in the United States and Japan, the market in China is still fresh and highly fragmented, which means top domestic brands have a chance to lead the industry," said Peng Guifu, chairman of the Underwear Committee of the China Textile Commerce Association.
""Unlike the underwear market in the United States and Japan, the market in China is still fresh and highly fragmented, which means top domestic brands have a chance to lead the industry," said Peng Guifu, chairman of the Underwear Committee of the China Textile Commerce Association.
They must provide valuable and fun factors to consumers, with happiness generated from fragmented travel experience.
These days, residents can both enjoy the environmental value and reap the economic benefits, thanks to a program called "Liangshan Bank", an initiative that, unlike traditional banks, seeks to integrate fragmented ecological resources and transform them into assets with monetary value by leveraging green finance－financial activities and investments that help ensure sustainable development.
They added that the young generation, whose free time tends to be fragmented and sporadic, is exhibiting huge enthusiasm for the ongoing Games, and they prefer to watch the events through their mobile phones rather than on televisions.
Compared to offline clinics, online platforms take advantage of fragmented time from doctors and their demand for making more money aside from regular salary, in order to offer patients services that are more flexible, easier to access, and have sufficient time to communicate, the LeadLeo report said.
The era of cross-border e-commerce is dominated by domestic export enterprises controlling goods, which is starting a new trend of international logistics with fragmented and high-frequency replenishment as the core.
As goods in logistics are mostly fragmented with high-frequency, intelligent LCL shipping represents the main logistics mode in the field of cross-border e-commerce in the future.
It's clear that the whole industry is currently far too fragmented and failing to provide an end-to-end experience for travelers.
Ma said the main targeted users are millennials, who are showing growing demand for short videos and mini drama series, with each episode lasting no more than three minutes involving tight-knit plots, as their free time tends to be fragmented and sporadic.
"Besides shopping at stores, consumers hope luxury brands can embrace digital channels as well for easier access, since their time is highly fragmented.
Talk shows as such are the synopsis of the so-called "knowledge economy," which encourages lifelong learning given the fragmented time people face.
But neither do these entities create knowledge nor can they help people internalize what they learned on a fragmented basis.
"With a faster pace of life and fragmented time, we can't afford to hatch a popular product.
"The cold chain logistics industry is still in its infancy, and is highly fragmented and regional," said Li Xiuqiang, who is in charge of strategic planning for JD's cold chain unit.