The company's profits were
marginally higher this year compared to last year.
该公司今年的利润比去年略有提高。
She performed
marginally better in the second round of the competition.
她在第二轮比赛中的表现稍微好一些。
The new policy has
marginally improved the efficiency of our operations.
新政策使我们的运营效率略有提升。
His latest novel didn't receive the same critical acclaim as his previous work, but it was still
marginally successful.
他的最新小说没有像前一部作品那样受到评论界的赞誉，但仍然取得了一点小成功。
The patient's condition has stabilized, showing only marginal improvement since yesterday.
病人的状况已经稳定下来，自昨天以来只略有好转。
The stock market experienced a
marginally positive week with slight gains overall.
股市经历了一个略微上涨的一周，总体上略有增长。
The new tax reforms will
marginally benefit low-income households.
新的税制改革将对低收入家庭带来微小的好处。
Her productivity has increased
marginally since she started using the time-management app.
自从她开始使用时间管理应用后，她的工作效率略有提高。
The company's market share has remained
marginally unchanged despite fierce competition.
尽管竞争激烈，但公司的市场份额基本保持不变。
The candidate's performance in the debate was
marginally stronger than his opponent's.
这位候选人在辩论中的表现略胜于对手。
According to market research firm Euromonitor International, the retail value of the chocolate confectionery sector in China has grown marginally in recent years, from 21.5 billion yuan in 2018 to 22.3 billion yuan in 2023.
根据市场研究公司欧睿国际的数据，近年来，中国巧克力糖果行业的零售额略有增长，从2018年的215亿元人民币增长到2023年的223亿元人民币。
In its financial filing on Wednesday night, SMIC said its net income last year hit $1.82 billion, a 6 percent year-on-year increase, while sales in the final quarter of 2022 hit $1.62 billion, about 2 percent year-on-year and marginally below analyst expectations.
中芯国际在周三晚间提交的财务文件中表示，其去年的净收入达到18.2亿美元，同比增长6%，而2022年最后一季度的销售额达到16.2亿美元，约同比增长2%，略低于分析师预期。
With the government taking multiple measures to stabilize economic growth in the second half, it is estimated that the asset quality of the banking sector will improve marginally, said a report issued by the China Banking Association on Thursday.
中国银行业协会周四发布的一份报告称，随着政府在下半年采取多项措施稳定经济增长，预计银行业的资产质量将略有改善。
"Alibaba's loss has mostly been Pinduoduo's (13 percent) gain, although JD (17 percent) is gaining share marginally as well.
“阿里巴巴的损失主要是拼多多（13%）的收益，尽管京东（17%）的份额也略有增加。
Thanks to China's gradual economic recovery and the bank's stepped-up efforts to resolve nonperforming loans, the asset quality of the bank has improved marginally.
得益于中国经济的逐步复苏以及银行加大了处理不良贷款的努力，该行的资产质量略有改善。
Shares of Qualcomm jumped 22 percent in late afternoon trading, while Apple share were up marginally.
Shares of Intel, Qualcomm's main competitor for supplying modem chips to Apple, trimmed gains to be up marginally at $56.42.
China's foreign trade rose marginally year-on-year in the first 10 months of this year to 34.32 trillion yuan ($4.76 trillion).
The development of the country's private economy has improved marginally, she said, as the number of newly registered private enterprises grew by 18.1 percent year-on-year in September, 8.4 percentage points faster than in August.
In fact, contribution from this area has already slowed marginally since the second quarter.
China's economic recovery accelerated in August as market demand improved gradually while major economic indicators picked up marginally, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
China's August factory activity improved marginally but still indicated contraction for a fifth consecutive month, official data showed on Thursday.
官方数据显示，周四发布的报告中指出，中国8月份的工厂活动虽略有改善，但已连续第五个月呈现收缩态势。
From an industry perspective, 196.85 billion yuan of foreign investment in the manufacturing sector was actually utilized during the January-July period, up marginally year-on-year.
"The region's growth forecast for next year is marginally revised down to 4.7 percent from a 4.8 percent estimate in April," said the ADB report.
The forecast for Caucasus and Central Asia is also revised down marginally to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent for 2023 and to 4.4 percent from 4.6 percent in 2024.
China's June factory activity improved marginally but still remained in the contraction territory, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday.
China's consumer inflation edged up marginally while its factory-gate prices dropped further in May amid weak demand, suggesting more stimulus policies may be needed to boost domestic demand and broaden the economic recovery, analysts said on Friday.
中国5月份消费者价格指数(CPI)小幅上升，而工业生产者出厂价格指数(PPI)则进一步下跌，反映出市场需求疲软。分析人士在周五表示，这表明可能需要出台更多刺激政策来提振国内需求并推动经济复苏的广度。
Dong Lijuan, an NBS statistician, said May's CPI picked up marginally with the gradual recovery in consumer demand, while the fall in factory-gate prices was affected by declining international commodity prices, weak demand for industrial products at both home and abroad, as well as a high comparison base in the previous year.
国家统计局统计师董莉娟表示，5月份消费者价格指数（CPI）随着消费需求的逐步恢复而略微上涨；同时，出厂价格的下降受到国际大宗商品价格下跌、国内外工业产品需求疲软以及去年同期较高基数的影响。
Looking ahead, given the stabilizing food prices and a potential modest rebound in fuel prices, but a highly elevated youth unemployment rate and continued disinflationary pressures in some core goods, Lu Ting, chief China economist at Nomura, said his team expects CPI to inch up only marginally to 0.3 percent year-on-year in June.
“展望未来，鉴于食品价格趋于稳定以及燃料价格可能出现温和反弹，但青年失业率居高不下且某些核心商品仍面临持续的通缩压力，野村证券中国首席经济学家陆挺及其团队预计6月份CPI同比涨幅将仅微幅上升至0.3%。”
China's consumer inflation picked up marginally in May, while factory-gate price decline sped up due to weaker demand, official data showed on Friday.
Dong Lijuan, an NBS statistician, said the consumer inflation picked up marginally with the gradual recovery in consumer demand, while the fall in factory-gate prices was affected by declining international commodity prices, weak demand for industrial products at both home and abroad, as well as a high comparison base in the previous year.
Caixin said external demand remained stable in May, with the subindex for new export orders rising marginally.
"Manufacturing supply ticked up marginally, but demand contracted," said Wang Zhe, senior economist at Caixin Insight Group.
Fiscal policies can be adjusted marginally while taking into account fiscal sustainability.
The business activity of China's SMEs, mostly private businesses, improved marginally in January, with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Index seeing its largest rise in growth in the past two years.
Looking forward, he said his team expects China's CPI inflation to edge down marginally to 2 percent in February, reflecting some pullback after the January Spring Festival holiday effects.
The business activities of China's small and medium-sized enterprises improved marginally in January, as the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Index saw its largest rise in growth over the past two years.
"Looking forward, we expect CPI inflation to edge down marginally to 2 percent in February," Lu said.
On Wednesday, prices of edible oils and grains stayed flat from a week ago, and the prices of meats fluctuated only marginally.
Only agricultural product export market share decreased slightly while that of fuel and mineral products increased only marginally.
Although overseas demand for oil has marginally decreased, we should not be overly pessimistic as continued economic recovery in China can be anticipated.
As key index crawls up to 88.4, experts give credit to policy supportBusiness operations of China's small and medium-sized enterprises improved marginally in June on the back of better containment of the COVID-19 pandemic and a package of stimulus policy measures, the latest data showed on Friday.
Of course, they will continue to play their roles, but conventional economic drivers as these have seen their utility contract marginally.
In this sense, more liquidity will be provided to qualified property developers, with development loans, bonds and leasing credit marginally improved.
China's macroeconomic policies will become neutral or ease marginally in 2022 as the country has shifted the main focus of its policies toward stabilization of growth amid recently increased risks of an economic downturn, said Ding Shuang, chief economist for Greater China and North Asia at Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd. "Slight structural policy adjustments have been made in face of the risk of an economic downturn.
"There were nearly 20 million private-controlled firms in China as of end 2019, up nearly four times over the past decade, and only 266,000 state-controlled firms, growing only marginally in number, plus almost 83 million individual businesses owned solely by one natural person, the article said, citing China's statistics.
The ADB's economists also expect China's monetary policy to ease marginally.
This assessment is consistent with the official purchasing managers index for China's manufacturing sector issued by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, which came in at 50.9 in June, marginally down from 51 in May.
"The PMI reading changed only marginally from April, while condition of the sector has continued to be better than the same period of 2019 and 2020, showing that the manufacturing sector has maintained a steady expansion," said Zhao Qinghe, a NBS statistician.
Wang Yiming, a newly elected member of the PBOC monetary policy committee, predicted that if the US economy rebounds faster than expected, the Fed is likely to marginally tighten its monetary policy and that may lead to capital flows out of emerging markets and perhaps a sharp drop in asset prices or even financial market turbulence in these markets.
Inventories of purchased items dropped for the second consecutive month while stocks of finished goods rose marginally.
Amid the audit dispute, some Chinese companies listed in the US have underperformed the broader US equities, albeit marginally.
Its total liabilities fell marginally to 2.39 trillion yuan at the end of June from 2.44 trillion yuan at the end of 2022.
In Jinhua, central Zhejiang, the local authorities announced on Thursday that starting three days later, the maximum loan amount of the housing provident fund will be marginally increased, further enhancing support for home purchases and better meeting the rigid and improved housing needs of Jinhua's residents, promoting the healthy and stable development of the local real estate market.
There is the scope to "marginally optimize" property market policies that were rolled out when the market was overheated, said an official of the People's Bank of China, the central bank.
In December, the IEA said global coal demand would increase marginally this year and urged stronger global efforts to accelerate the transition to clean energy.
Index up to 48 from 46.7 in Nov while business confidence at 17-month highActivity in China's services sector improved marginally in December with business confidence hitting a 17-month high on expectations of a strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, a private survey showed on Thursday.
Refiners need to find ways to make much less gasoline, marginally less diesel, and more jet fuel and petrochemical feedstocks, it said.
Thanks to the impact of a positive housing policy environment, the real estate finance situation improved marginally in China in the first half.
Ever since financial policies for the real estate industry were marginally relaxed in September last year, the overall domestic loan balance has increased 7.24 percent by May, while the balance of medium- and long-term consumer loans in the residential sector only went up 3.95 percent.
Spot prices of hot-rolled coil and rebar increased relatively marginally in Shanghai－5.9 percent and 5 percent, respectively, the Huatai report said.
State Grid Corp of China said its new grid-connected electricity generated by new energy had reached 41.74 million kW during the first three quarters of last year, up 39 percent year-on-year, while China Southern Power Grid said the five regions that it covers have consumed 540 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy during the first nine months of 2021, with the renewable energy generation efficiency reaching 99.81 percent, up marginally year-on-year.
In August, home prices in 70 Chinese major cities either grew marginally or edged down, both in year-on-year and month-on-month terms, suggesting the long-term nature of tightening rules continues to have the desired effect at local levels, said Sheng Guoqing, chief statistician with the National Bureau of Statistics.
国家统计局首席统计师盛国庆表示，8月，中国70个大中城市房价无论从同比还是环比看，均呈现小幅上涨或微降态势，这表明长期性的紧缩调控政策在地方层面持续发挥预期效果。
China's consumption of steel products is expected to grow marginally next year, after hitting a record this year, said a new report from the Beijing-based China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute.
据北京中国冶金工业规划研究院发布的一份新报告，继今年创下历史新高后，中国明年的钢材消费量预计将会小幅增长。
In the 35 third-tier cities, prices remained flat or fell marginally for 18 months in a row.
在35个三线城市中，价格连续18个月保持平稳或小幅下跌。
Although large stimulus and a sharp upcycle is unlikely, marginally improving sector performance can be expected.
However, with domestic crude demand softening and potentially more US oil purchases coming in as part of a trade deal, there could be some structural changes in China's crude purchase: that is, medium or heavy crude could be marginally reduced to make space for US light and sweet oil, he said.
While minor new tariffs are possible, the risks that new tariffs would pose to financial markets and the economy will likely discourage the White House from raising tariff rates marginally in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Exports grew marginally by 1.4 percent to reach 38.5 billion yuan, it said.
FAO said wheat prices led the fall, with corn prices finishing the month only marginally lower and rice prices holding steady compared to March.
Agreed Wang from Lange that the profitability of steel companies would be impacted marginally by the possible price increases of some raw materials such as coking coal during the winter season.
In 2022, the market totaled $599.6 billion, marginally up over 2021.
On Thursday, Xiaomi's shares slid marginally in Hong Kong to HK$16.28 ($2.08).
But, they closed marginally up nevertheless, with Seres' good sales performance and late-night statement on Sunday appearing to have finally reassured investors.
A report from the CPCA showed that reductions in subsidies and rising NEV car prices have only marginally affected the market climate.
Output is forecast to fall only marginally in 2020, but a series of investments are due which will affect future levels.
Global crude prices rose marginally due to falling crude output in the United States, a tropical storm that disrupted production, and a weaker US dollar, the NDRC price monitoring center said in a report.
The rise, however, was marginally less than that seen in the previous quarter.
不过，此次上涨幅度略小于上一季度。
"The continued surge in demand for smart speakers in China has led us to marginally increase our full year (2019) global forecast to 148.8 million units and we now expect the global installed base of smart speakers to exceed 260 million units by the end of the year," Watkins said.
This will lower companies' costs and improve their profits marginally, he said.
Following the Chinese authorities' strengthening measures to stabilize the stock market, the benchmark Shanghai Composite index closed marginally higher at 3,021.55 points on Monday.
Furthermore, as of the first quarter, the Chinese government's leverage ratio marginally surpassed 50 percent, a relatively moderate level compared to developed countries.
The function of capital investment is also weakening marginally, given the economy is getting larger.
Zou, the PBOC official, said there is scope to "marginally optimize" the property market regulations rolled out when the market was overheated.
In fact, de-dollarization is likely to slow down marginally going forward, rather than speed up, said Cheng.
Demand for corporate credit has continued to rebound while demand for household credit has marginally improved.
The technology-focused ChiNext in Shenzhen slid marginally.
This will marginally reduce the yuan depreciation pressure.
"The 10-year government bond yield may continue to go up amid fluctuations due to the marginally contracting liquidity and pressure on a strong economic rebound.
Currently, market liquidity has marginally tightened and needs to be further loosened.
On Friday, shares of such companies declined marginally on average, in line with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index that closed 0.32 percent lower.
Under increased economic pressure since the beginning of the year, financial regulators' implementation efforts may be marginally loosened on a periodic basis.
The growth of medium- and long-term corporate loans and the growth of household loans, although less than the same period last year, marginally improved versus April.
However, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slid marginally.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose marginally on Monday to close at 3146.86 points.
Hong Kong-listed internet-driven companies, whose stock prices have already nose-dived last year, may present another ideal investment target, given their marginally improving policy environment.
Xu Yan, head of the fixed income research team of China International Capital Corp Ltd, said: "The country loosened real estate financing policies slightly this month, which may marginally reduce cash flow stress on the housing sector.
On Monday, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose marginally to close at 3517.34 points while the Shenzhen Component Index slid 0.71 percent to 14693.74 points.
China Merchants Securities analysts said the lower-than-expected TSF data have indicated that China's economic growth may encounter more headwinds as the previously announced economic stimulus policies marginally lose their effectiveness.
Benefiting from China's economic recovery and stepped-up efforts to resolve nonperforming loans, the asset quality of BOC has improved marginally.
Monetary environment will inevitably be tightened marginally.
UBS added that the yields of Chinese government bonds would rise marginally as China is the only major country with domestic yields back up at pre-pandemic levels.
Various economic indicators have improved marginally, and the economy is gradually recovering," Wang said.
Although the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell marginally by 0.01 percent on Monday, it climbed to 3100 points in early trading.
"In August, rising expectations over marginally easier liquidity conditions and targeted policy stabilization efforts may support A shares "effectively", Wang said, adding that a structural uptrend of listings that report robust or improving semiannual financial performances is more likely than a broad rise in share prices.
"The volume of monthly net purchases increased marginally in the second quarter.
The offshore Chinese yuan has strengthened above 0.3 percent so far in 2019, with the US dollar/offshore yuan marginally below the psychological 6.90 level at time of writing.
Marginally ahead of the previous peak in 2016, the new record reflects the large supply of available capital meeting substantial demand for funding in the private sector, bolstered by several hot tech and fintech megadeals, according to PwC, a firm that provides professional services including audit and assurance, tax and consulting in the.
"We believe the market sentiment could recover if policy marginally relaxes either in terms of infrastructure or fiscal spending.
"We believe the market sentiment could recover if policy marginally relaxes either in terms of infrastructure or fiscal spending," said Gao.