Eric had a narrow escape in a car accident.
埃里克在一次车祸中侥幸脱险。
Tony's way of looking at the world is very narrow and misses a lot of life's variety and color.
托尼观察世界的方法很狭隘，因而他往往看不到生活的多样性及其绚丽的色彩。
Alice was chambered in a narrow basement.
爱丽丝被关进一个狭窄的地下室里。
Since 2022, Switzerland-based Novartis has seen 100 percent of its drug development in China achieve simultaneous development with markets worldwide, significantly narrowing the time gap between launches of new drugs in China and globally, said a senior executive of the pharmaceutical company.
总部位于瑞士的诺华制药公司的一位高管表示，自2022年以来，该公司在中国的药物开发100%实现了与全球市场的同步开发，大大缩小了新药在中国和全球上市之间的时间差距。
Commercial operationsThough the CCUS project is regarded as a viable way to realize carbon neutrality in the energy sector, it faces issues in making profits and in narrow application scenarios.
商业运营尽管CCUS项目被认为是能源领域实现碳中和的可行途径，但它在盈利和应用场景狭窄方面面临问题。
Ferrero data showed the company's sales in China had gradually bounced back since December, and the gap in revenue compared with the same period of the previous year showed a week-on-week narrowing.
费列罗的数据显示，自去年12月以来，该公司在中国的销售额逐步回升，收入与上年同期的差距呈周环比缩小趋势。
The combined profits of SOEs declined 1.5 percent year-on-year, narrowing from the 2.1 percent fall in the first seven months.
国有企业利润总额同比下降1.5%，降幅较前7个月的2.1%有所收窄。
Tencent Holdings Ltd reported on Wednesday 134.03 billion yuan ($19.78 billion) in revenue for its second fiscal quarter, down 3 percent year-on-year but with narrowing net profit loss.
腾讯控股有限公司周三公布第二财季收入1340.3亿元人民币（197.8亿美元），同比下降3%，但净利润亏损有所收窄。
China's overseas vaccine production facilities, as part of the second-largest economy's caring moves in ways of infrastructure and healthcare, are playing a major role in helping "narrow the COVID-19 prevention gap between nations", said Deng Boqing, vice-chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency during the 2022 annual meeting of the Boao Forum in Hainan province in April.
邓伯清表示，作为第二大经济体在基础设施和医疗保健方面的关爱行动的一部分，中国的海外疫苗生产设施在帮助“缩小国家间新冠肺炎预防差距”方面发挥着重要作用，4月，在海南省举行的博鳌论坛2022年年会上，中国国际开发合作署副主席。
This is also a historical moment to narrow the gap with developed countries, said Du Xiangwan, an energy expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, during the recently held China Carbon Neutrality Forum 2022 Summit.
中国工程院能源专家杜向万在最近举行的2022年中国碳中和论坛峰会上表示，这也是缩小与发达国家差距的历史时刻。
The value of China's contracted property sales will decline in 2022 given the country's tight credit environment, but the decline is seen gradually narrowing during the rest of the year, Moody's Investors Service said.
穆迪投资者服务公司表示，鉴于中国信贷环境紧张，2022年中国的合同房地产销售价值将下降，但在今年剩余时间内，下降幅度将逐渐缩小。
This indicates the downstream sector's gains are improving, thus narrowing the wide gap with the profits of upstream industries, and showcases the country's firm economic recovery, experts said on Monday.
专家周一表示，这表明下游行业的收益正在改善，从而缩小了与上游行业利润的巨大差距，并展示了该国坚定的经济复苏。
Zhu said profits of equipment and consumer goods manufacturers accounted for a larger part of total profits in November, which has helped narrow the gap.
朱说，设备和消费品制造商的利润在11月的利润总额中占了很大一部分，这有助于缩小差距。
"The divide between it and the first echelon, the United States, is narrowing," said Chen Kaixian, an academic who specializes in new drug research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In addition to narrowing the gap between landlocked areas and coastal countries and regions, this brings more benefits to local residents, he said.
In addition to narrowing the gap between landlocked areas and coastal countries and regions, this brings more benefits to local residents.
"Together, these will provide next-generation digital public solutions to achieve the balanced development of global digital economy and narrow the digital gap," he said.
The company said it will increase investment in science and technology, support less-developed areas, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and agriculture, as well as provide diversified vocational training, improve insurance protection for flexible workers such as couriers and ride-hailing drivers, and narrow the digital divide.
The company said it will increase investment in science and technology, support digital construction in less developed areas, small and medium-sized enterprises and agriculture, provide diversified vocational training and narrow the digital divide.
Currently, Dingdong Maicai is still in a loss, but the net loss rate is narrowing from 48.3 percent to 28 percent during 2019 to 2020.
The move came as the US tech giant is working to narrow the education gap between urban and rural areas through targeted and influential initiatives and use technology to better empower children in poor regions.
Revenue during the fourth quarter rose by 146 percent on a yearly basis to 26.5 billion yuan ($4.1 billion), yet it recorded a loss of 1.4 billion yuan, narrowing from 1.8 billion yuan a year earlier.
Their net profits after taxes totaled 1.93 trillion yuan, down 11.4 percent year-on-year and narrowing from an 18.5 percent decline in the first nine months, the ministry said.
"Building more infrastructure facilities such as bridges and railroads in BRI economies can help narrow the gap between landlocked areas and coastal regions, he said.
The Non-GAAP net loss from April to June was 77.2 million yuan, narrowing significantly compared with 411.3 million yuan in the same quarter of 2019.
Retail sales in China reached 41.2 trillion yuan ($5.92 trillion) last year, and retail sales dropped by 1.1 percent in July on a yearly basis, narrowing from the 1.8 percent decline in June, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
In the January-June period, the combined revenue of the 97 central SOEs fell by 7.8 percent from one year earlier to 13.4 trillion yuan ($1.91 trillion), narrowing by 4 percentage points compared with the decrease in the first quarter.
The central SOEs' combined profits stood at 438.55 billion yuan in the first half of the year, down 37.7 percent year-on-year, narrowing by 12.6 percentage points compared with the decline in the first five months.
There will be:(1) A slowdown in economic activity, both in China and globally(2) Client meetings will not be in-person, which will hurt new customers(3) A quick switch to a work-at-home environment, which has its own limitations including slow internet speed and workspaces being shared with family(4) Increased employee concerns around uncertainties in life, family and jobsHowever, we have found using technologies such as video conferencing, online authorization and cloud computing helped us narrow the gap very quickly.
As a number of economies are confronting issues like growth slowdown and seeking new opportunities to grow in the aftermath of COVID-19, Cong stressed the BRI will continue to make Chinese and partner economies more competitive, narrowing development gaps between landlocked countries and coastal regions.
There are many old, narrow paths in the old town of Seville, which are inaccessible to automobiles, according to Hu.
It also helps to further narrow the gap in clinical nutrition treatment.
Chinese companies should thus further explore the global market and look for better quality products from all over the world so that we can truly seek long-term development by narrowing down the gap and actively taking part in global competition," she said.
Before the business expansion, Oliver Wyman's China business had a narrow focus including financial services and auto manufacturing.
But digitalization is fueling fresh momentum and can help us narrow the gap sooner," he said.
Li Ning became the highlight of the New York Fashion Show and Anta joined forces with NASA and Coca-Cola to woo younger consumers in showcasing the narrowing gap between local brands and their international peers in terms of marketing.
The cranes for the Russian market are developed to withstand low-temperature weather, whilst those for Southeast Asia can adapt to narrow construction areas and local humid environment.
Wang Tianxiang, general manager of Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Precision Strip Co Ltd, a subsidiary of TISCO, said in the past only a few countries such as Germany and Japan could produce thin steel sheets, in a narrow shape and width of 350 mm to 400mm.
It aims to narrow the gap between cities and rural areas.
""A small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community.
The report found that State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have maintained a leading role in CSR practice, but the gap between private enterprises and SOEs in the quality of CSR reports and CSR fulfillment is narrowing.
Sales revenue from its physical stores in the Chinese mainland dropped 4.3 percent, narrowing the 10.1 percent decline recorded in 2016, according to its latest earnings report released in March.
"From the perspective of business management, narrowing a sprawling business presence to key markets makes sense.
Therefore, the industry needs to change the previous distribution channels, so that the distance between the production and the consumer is as narrow as possible.
One of the pains people are facing when travelling to and from the airport is that at times they would miss flights because of using a narrow road, Wamala said.
Therefore, the industry needs to change the previous distribution channel, so the distance between the production and consumer end is as narrow as possible.
"The company should grasp the opportunity of accelerated gas demand growth, increase its domestic gas production and try to renegotiate legacy contracts to get more favorable prices to narrow losses from importing LNG and pipeline gas.
The growth of Chinese brands extends beyond the technology sector as the country continues to narrow the value gap with the United States at an impressive rate, the report said.
"We are moving forward to more efficient narrow gauge lines to be driven by the private sector, it's on the basis of this that we are creating a more conducive environment for private sector participation," the Nigerian leader said.
Gu was in Punta del Este, a resort city on a narrow peninsula in southeast Uruguay, for the 11th China-Latin America and the Caribbean (China-LAC) Business Summit, which ended Saturday.
"Narrow band IoT is the latest IoT battlefield that global telecom carriers are scrambling for so they can establish a beachhead," said Xiang Ligang, chief executive of telecom industry website Cctime.
In a report published in May, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology encouraged narrow band IoT's commercial use in industrial internet and urban public service and management.
For, in the emerging cobot R&D, only a narrow gap separates Chinese makers and foreign manufacturers.
For instance, it can derive intelligent algorithm to narrow users' shopping intentions via Tmall and its sister platforms and forecast prospective sought-after items.
When a friend from Zhejiang province visited me, I found a room in a Beijing hutong (traditional Chinese houses in narrow lanes).
Wu further noted the segment was steadily narrowing the negative margin and was close to reachingbreak-even.
On the other hand, the pipeline also diversifies China's oil and gas imports, which will no longer have to pass through the Malacca Straits, a narrow channel that connects the Indian Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
com, said as Chinese heavyweights narrow the technology gap with Western counterparts, more companies will expand their overseas footprint in the future.
In addition to business reruns, Xiao said Chinese companies' participation in the Belt and Road Initiative can help narrow the gap between landlocked areas and coastal countries and regions, thus bringing more benefits to participating economies.
Li Li, energy research director at ICIS China, said with the new pipeline, China's oil and gas imports will no longer have to pass through the Malacca Straits, a narrow channel that connects the Indian Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
"Our experience in deploying one of the world's largest information networks in China can help narrow the digital gap.
"Meanwhile, the narrowing decline in PPI points to the gradual improvement in the operation conditions among the industrial and manufacturing sectors, fueled by the continued recovery in demand and the strong macro policy support.
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.
Before 2014, the narrow fiscal deficit ratio and the broad fiscal deficit ratio remained essentially consistent.
Therefore, alongside monitoring the narrow deficit ratio, attention must be paid to the constraints posed by the broad deficit ratio, which may to some extent limit the space for fiscal policies to drive economic growth.
With governments at different levels well aware of the challenges faced by the property sector, measures to resolve the problem have been stepped up, and international investment banks are now predicting only a narrowing contraction for the sector.
Real estate investment will be the swing factor, Zhu said, with the decline possibly narrowing to about 2 percent to 4 percent this year, compared with almost 10 percent in 2023.
The narrowing decline is based on a forecast that the People's Bank of China, or PBOC, the central bank, may use pledged supplementary lending (PSL) and other policy tools to provide about 1 trillion yuan ($139.8 billion) in funding support for affordable housing and shantytown redevelopment projects, Zhu said.
For the January-November period, industrial firms' profits fell 4.4 percent year-on-year to 6.98 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 7.8 percent drop in the first 10 months, the bureau said.
Considering the continued recovery in domestic demand and improvement in the external environment, the institute expected to see further recovery in consumption, accelerated growth in infrastructure, manufacturing investment and a narrowing decline in property investment.
For the January-November period, industrial firms' profits fell 4.4 percent year-on-year to 6.98 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 7.8 percent drop in the first ten months, the bureau said.
With major policy efforts from the government and a partial correction, the decline in real estate investment in 2024 is expected to narrow sharply.
For the January-October period, industrial firms' profits fell 7.8 percent year-on-year to 6.12 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 9 percent drop in the first nine months, the bureau said.
"This is important because it helps countries to have an idea of the gap and then work out a plan to narrow that gap, he said, adding that his funding organization can then invest in what these countries have defined in their plans.
A flood of stimulus measures would be inappropriate in 2024 due to potential side effects and a narrowing policy scope, they said at a forum, stressing the need to prioritize the deepening of market-oriented, rules-based reforms to drive growth.
"But trying to make everything at home, or among a narrow circle of friends, would not just cost countries the efficiency and income gains brought about by international trade, it would increase their vulnerability to localized shocks, whether from extreme weather, public health crises or other unforeseen events.
Trade: Export structure of nation said to be improvingChina's foreign trade registered year-on-year growth in October, after a continuously narrowing slump since July, adding to the recent signs of a gradual stabilization in the world's second-largest economy thanks to a slew of supportive policy measures, officials and analysts said.
"Notably, the latest NBS data showed that the raw material manufacturing industry saw profits decline narrow by 18.8 percentage points in the first three quarters compared with the first half.
Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank, said that the profit decline of major industrial companies is expected to narrow continuously.
"The year-on-year decline in the producer price index continues to narrow, and such price factors will support industrial profits.
Narrowing by 2 percentage points from August, the total area of commercial property transactions in September declined by 10.2 percent year-on-year, said the National Bureau of Statistics.
Although the executive order claims that it only restricts investments in a "narrow set of technologies" that are most likely to threaten US national security, the order and relevant US investigations will still inevitably have a negative impact, including spillovers, on all the cross-border investments in China.
Looking forward, Liu said consumer inflation will steadily rebound in the fourth quarter amid the continued economic recovery trend, steady recovery in demand and abundant supply of products and services, with the decline in factory-gate prices expected to narrow further.
Cai Hanpian, a researcher at Peking University's National Economy Research Center, said both the steady growth in core CPI and the narrowing drop in the PPI indicate that China's economic recovery is on track and gathering pace.
This phenomenon presents opportunities for developing nations to narrow their gap with developed economies and emerge as significant players in the global digital economy.
As manufacturers' purchasing activity recovers while commodity prices rally, the country's inflation may also recover, with the year-on-year decline in the producer price index, a gauge of factory-gate prices, likely to narrow from 3 percent in August to about 2.4 percent in September, said Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank.
In the January-August period, industrial firms' profits fell 11.7 percent year-on-year to 4.66 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 15.5 percent drop in the first seven months, the bureau said.
"Looking ahead, the decline in industrial profits will continue to narrow in the first nine months given the improvement in producer prices and the base effect," said Zheng Houcheng, chief macro economist at Yingda Securities.
He said that as the producer price index is poised to rebound from the bottom gradually, declines in industrial profits will further narrow in the near future.
For the January-August period, industrial firms' profits fell 11.7 percent year-on-year to 4.66 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 15.5 percent drop in the first seven months, the bureau said.
"Looking forward, Zhang expects the CPI to continue to edge up, while the decline in the PPI will narrow further.
The country's intensified policy efforts to alleviate the burden of enterprises have helped major industrial firms to narrow profit declines for the fifth consecutive month in July.
For the January-July period, industrial firms' profits fell 15.5 percent year-on-year to 3.94 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 16.8 percent drop in the first half of this year, the bureau said.
He said more efforts are needed to effectively raise the take-home pay of middle- and low-income groups, narrow income disparities among households, and further improve the social security system.
In addition, over the past decade, the net interest margins of China's commercial banks have continued to narrow, with the return on capital declining sharply and share prices remaining modest.
"Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for China-America Studies, told China Daily that "the room for negotiations on the US' dual-use technology controls regime is a narrow one".
"Fu pointed out that consumer price growth will gradually return to a reasonable level and the price decline at the factory gate will further narrow, propelled by the positive trajectory of the broader economy.
Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank, said he expects the contraction in the PPI to continue to narrow with a lower base.
In the first half, industrial firms' profits fell 16.8 percent year-on-year to 3.39 trillion yuan, narrowing from the 18.8 percent drop recorded in the first five months, the bureau said.
"The EMDCs should create an open, fair and non-discriminatory environment for the digital economy, to narrow the global digital divide and give more people access to the benefits of scientific and technological achievements," said Wang.
The unemployment rate in urban areas was at an average of 4.8 percent in the first six months, narrowing by 0.1 percentage point in comparison with the first quarter.
WTO-led accord, once implemented, seen boosting biz, investment, parityThe Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement, the world's first multilateral investment accord under the aegis of the World Trade Organization, will better safeguard outbound investment made by Chinese businesses, narrow the gap between the Global North and Global South, and further shore up the confidence of investors worldwide, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.
Foreign financial institutions will provide higher-quality and more diverse financial services for Chinese consumers, which will help narrow the country's gap with developed economies, Dong said.