You would have phrased it quite differently.
你本可以把它表述得全然不同。
Eric phrase a story to kids
埃里克向孩子们讲故事
Tom finds a phrase from phrasebook.
汤姆从短语手册中找到一个短语。
Actions speak louder than words.
行动胜于言语。
Break a leg!" - 祝你好运（一种剧场里的祝福语）。
Piece of cake.
轻而易举，很容易。
Time heals all wounds.
时间治愈一切创伤。
Bite the bullet.
勇敢面对痛苦或困难的事情。
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
鸡蛋未孵出前别先数小鸡，意即不要过早乐观。
A penny for your thoughts.
你在想什么呢？（询问对方的想法）
You can't judge a book by its cover.
不可仅凭表面判断事物。
Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好。
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
What does the underlined phrase mean?
划线句的短语是什么意思？
Phrases are groups of words.
短语是单词的组合。
We have a phrase 'China for China'," which means its Chinese mobile apps are developed locally for better speed and user experience, Donahoe said.
Donahoe说：“我们有一个短语‘中国换中国’，意思是它的中国移动应用程序是在当地开发的，以提高速度和用户体验。”。
Anchors on the Douyin livestream channel Dongfang Zhenxuan, meaning Oriental Select, combine useful English phrases with the selling of products, such as providing the English translation of the product and commonly used sentences.
抖音直播频道东方臻选（Oriental Select）的主播将有用的英语短语与产品销售相结合，例如提供产品的英文翻译和常用句子。
Spring has also designed personalities, hobbies, wishes and a pet phrase for the figure, and many of the elements mesh with the corporate culture and development goals of the company, it said.
该公司表示，Spring还为这位人物设计了个性、爱好、愿望和口头禅，其中许多元素与公司的企业文化和发展目标相吻合。
Closed loop shall still be the key phrase for the production resumption at this phase, he said.
他说，闭环仍然是现阶段恢复生产的关键阶段。
Guo Xiaoyan, a publicity executive at Beijing Jianlong Heavy Industry Group Co, has found that an increasing part of her daily work centers on the buzz phrase "dual carbon goals", which refers to China's climate commitments.
北京建龙重工集团有限公司的宣传主管郭晓燕发现，她越来越多的日常工作集中在流行语“双碳目标”上，这指的是中国的气候承诺。
Keywords like "Guochao"－a Chinese phrase referring to homegrown style－have been gaining ground.
像“国潮”（一个指本土风格的中文短语）这样的关键词越来越多。
Bilibili, a leading video platform popular among China's younger generation, announced on Monday the phrase of the year on its site to be "Po Fang Le", or "this broke down my defenses" in literal translation.
受中国年轻一代欢迎的领先视频平台哔哩哔哩周一在其网站上宣布，今年的短语是“Po Fang Le”，直译为“这打破了我的防御”。
It resembles English phrases such as "this really got me" or "I'm shook", Bilibili said.
哔哩哔哩说，它类似于英语短语，比如“这真的抓住了我”或“我被震撼了”。
Some industry insiders coined a phrase to describe the expected nature of the massive post-merger entity: "IT aircraft carrier", a mammoth of sorts that will have multiple capabilities, huge resources and corporate heft.
一些业内知情人士用一个短语来形容预期中合并后巨无霸公司的特质：IT航空母舰，一个集各种能力于一身、资源雄厚、在商界举足轻重的庞然大物。
Michael Lai, general manager of AstraZeneca China, also said what the company is building is not only regional headquarters, but also a regional innovation ecosystem that can integrate resources from different companies to create innovative disease solutions for patients, as well as help companies go from early stage to growth phrase to becoming significant players in the local industry.
阿斯利康中国总经理赖明隆也表示，公司正在建设的不仅仅是区域总部，而是一个能够整合不同企业资源、为患者创造创新疾病解决方案的区域创新生态系统，同时帮助企业从早期阶段发展到成长阶段，成为当地行业的关键参与者。
Drip coffees, or small cones or cubes containing ground coffee that "hang by the ear", to use Chinese consumers' preferred phrase for them, allow fresh brews to drip through them when immersed in hot water in a mug.
Well, the phrase is a throwback to China's period of wars when the general strategy was to first win the rural areas before moving on to conquer cities.
I was surprised to note Agarwal used this Chinese phrase at all.
Mention "branding" and several words or phrases that can be used interchangeably surface in the mind: brand, brand identity, brand image, brand equity.
You can barely find a phrase that properly encapsulates all businesses of Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Please use three phrases to describe China's changes in the past 40 years.
CSRC has encouraged listed firms to offer more yields to investors in the stock market, where dividend payouts were previously infrequent, and vowed to punish the stingy "iron roosters," a phrase taken from a Chinese term to describe a miserly person.
NPC deputy believes digital economy could become the engine driving China's next phase of development, affecting many sectorsThere may not be a phrase to properly encompass all the businesses operating as part of Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Lingo Bus follows parent VIPkid's footsteps, to expand in B&R economiesUnlike little students who go to special educational institutes in the United States to learn Chinese and say phrases like xiexie (Chinese for thanks), Oklahoma's Ella, 5, relies on her laptop and internet access to do the same.
According to MDEC's chief executive officer Yasmin Mahmood, the pilot phrase of the collaboration will begin with a base of 382 cameras feeds and input from 281 traffic light junction.
China's economy is entering a new growth phrase where quality has become increasingly important for the country's consumers, Zhang noted.
Led by Vishal Bali, measurement firm Nielsen mines China market insights to add value to global strategy"East-to-West Innovation"－the phrase may be a mouthful but it rolls smoothly off Vishal Bali's tongue as if it were some butter.
For those who don't, the phrase "leftover women" is sometimes applied.
In a YChina video, Isaac Pena from Costa Rica shouts some of the pet phrases used by hard-core Chinese players while playing the game, showing his familiarity with prevailing trends.
While securitization of State-owned assets has become a buzz phrase in SOE reform, Pan said the group has no plan to merge all its entities for a single listing.
The celebration comes at a time when the phrase "Made in China" has come of age.
The key phrase "new productivity boosters" — highlighted at the recently concluded Central Economic Work Conference — refers to modern advanced productivity generated by technological breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors and in-depth industrial transformation and upgrading, the official said, adding that the term takes the improvement of total factor productivity as a core concept.
The term "modern industrial system" has become a key phrase in China, with the top leadership highlighting it as a priority for the country's economic development and a key to underpinning modernization.
"But the two phrases, in essence, seem to be the same, judging from the recent practices of US coercing countries such as the Netherlands and Japan to impose stricter chip export controls on China," said Wei, who is vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
The buzz phrase cropped up again and again at the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services, or CIFTIS, held in Beijing in September, as hundreds of thousands of visitors realized the benefits of bamboo-made disposable tableware, neon signs that glow without being plugged in, and hydrogen fuel cells that drain only water, which were all on display.
That is to say, "maintaining strategic resolve" was a key phrase during the meeting.
Huo Jinjie, president of International Data Corp China, a market research firm, said digital resilience has become a key phrase for the country's enterprises to survive and grow over the past year and more.
"Micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises" or MSMEs, a buzz phrase for economic journalists these days, refers to businesses with relatively limited revenue and assets.
The phrase "little giant" refers to small and medium-sized enterprises that focus on a market niche and master key technologies with a strong innovation capacity and big market share.
In the initial phrase, HSBC plans to provide over 100 selected wealth management products at low to medium risk, covering all asset classes allowed by the rules.
"Whole-process smart control, round-the-clock online service, wide-coverage customized service, and tax governance by data" were some key phrases that Wang used to describe the features of the modern tax administration system.
Who or what might prove "unintended beneficiaries"－call this new phrase an antonym of "collateral damage", if you will－of China's new policies aimed at raising the fertility rate?
Upgraded innovation should be the buzz phrase for Shanghai's development in the next five years by further enhancing its core competitiveness, he said.
Balance sheet recessionThe phrase "balance sheet recession" was coined by US economist Richard Koo, chief economist at Nomura Research, in 2003, to describe Japan's long-term economic recession in the 1990s.
High-intensity travel a trend among young Chinese keen to see more sitesTang Dynasty (618-907) poet Meng Jiao used the phrase "see all the flowers of Chang'an in one day (on horseback)" to describe the joyous mood following success at the imperial examination.
Marketing material from Chinese brands is quite often a direct translation of their Chinese originals, leaving Western audiences perplexed by phrases like "open the TV".
Therefore, early investment in hard technology has become a key phrase.
The term "modern industrial system" has become a key phrase in China, with the top leadership highlighting it as a priority for the country's economic development.
Li's song has made "dark plum jam" one of the top 10 searched phrases on e-commerce platform Taobao, with the number of searches surging 200-fold in the first week of the song's debut, with sales of apple and blueberry jam products on the platform surging 100 percent year-on-year.
Literally meaning to "give strength", geili is a phrase commonly used by e-commerce livestreamers in China.
- If there is one phrase to describe the past Spring Festival holiday, it is "Ren Shan Ren Hai," a Chinese idiom meaning there are many people out there.
According to Meituan, in 2021,the search volume of phrases including "bath assistance for the elderly" increased by 808.06 percent year-on-year, and the order volume for "bath assistance for the elderly" increased by 1450 percent year-on-year.
Browsing through China's innumerable e-commerce livestreaming channels, it is not uncommon to hear phrases like "Hey guys!
The love of hanfu－traditional Chinese dresses－and domestic brands has heralded a new trend known as guochao, a Chinese phrase referring to homegrown style.
One of the strengths of domestic coffee chain operator Luckin Coffee is to be able to connect domestic brands to double down on the guochao trend－a Chinese phrase referring to homegrown style, providing continuous innovations that often resonate with local consumers.
"The coronavirus pandemic in fact propelled people to shop online and watch livestreaming to seek interactive and immersive experiences," said Viya, whose name is a play on the phrase "slightly hoarse".
“事实上，新冠疫情促使人们转向线上购物并观看直播，以寻求互动和沉浸式的体验，”薇娅说，她的名字源自“略显沙哑”这一短语。
The phrase refers to China's commitment to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
该短语指的是中国承诺到2030年实现碳排放达峰，到2060年实现碳中和。
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing health awareness, Chinese consumers showed a growing preference for healthy beverages whose labels have phrases like "sugar-free" and "plant-based", said Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel China, a market research firm.
市场研究公司凯度消费者指数中国区总经理虞坚表示：“在新冠疫情和健康意识日益增强的背景下，中国消费者越来越偏爱带有‘无糖’和‘植物基’等标签的健康饮料。”
Often translated into English as "moderately prosperous society", xiaokang actually includes much wider goals than the limited idea of economic growth implied by the English phrase.
这句话的中文翻译是："小康社会"常常被译为英文的"moderately prosperous society"，但实际上，小康的概念包含的目标远比英文短语所暗示的经济增长概念要广泛得多。
The practice is so widespread that it's even given rise to the phrase "bathing crabs".
这种做法非常普遍，甚至催生了“洗澡蟹”这个说法。
Phrases began to trend online such as "Though I didn't risk my life to help Hubei, at least I can share the bill for it" and "I'd like to gain another 1.5-kilograms for Hubei. "
"Localization should be done well, as there are many phrases and idioms that do not translate between languages," he said.
The country is a hub for digital innovation, given the massive contributions by the Tech Trinity, or BAT, a phrase that refers to Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
Zhang Shuidi, general manager of Xiamen C&D Xinghui E-sports Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Xiamen C&D Inc said China's e-sports industry is about to enter a phrase of explosive growth due to the recently concluded 2018 Asian Games.
It was the first phrase of tourism when people wanted to see the Eiffel Tower or something like that," said Vapaavuori.
The key phrase, "new productivity boosters", which was highlighted at the meeting, means China is seeking high-quality and highly efficient growth, Hong said.
The custom-built air conditioner had the calligraphy aficionado's favorite phrase — "Tian Dao Chou Qin", or "God Rewards the Diligent" — embossed in Chinese, with the AC also sporting his preferred color and style.
Going global will be a key phrase for Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd in 2023, as the world's largest maker of electric vehicle batteries has accelerated its overseas expansion over the past year, according to company executives and industry experts.
The phrase "new energy vehicles", which has been repeated in the Government Work Report over the past seven years, did not appear in the report delivered at this year's annual two sessions, which concluded on Thursday.
"This is one of the reasons we call China a home away from home, and it is not a phrase for us," she said.
Several years ago, the phrase "intelligent connected vehicles" might have been foreign to many people, but now it is regarded as the future of transportation.
Electric car startup Byton is charging ahead on its path to roll off its first model, an SUV, in late 2019 as construction is well under way on the first phrase of its plant - with a designed annual capacity of 100,000 units - in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
"The world is entering into the phrase of fierce competition in intelligent vehicles.
The CE marking is an abbreviation of the French phrase "Conformite Europeenne", which translates as "European Conformity".
Digital resilience has become a key phrase for the country's enterprises to survive and grow.
Color ringback tone services, known as CRBT, allow wireless service subscribers to play their favorite tune, sound, jingle or phrase to incoming callers.
For the first time, "new infrastructure" as a phrase was mentioned in the annual Government Work Report delivered in the annual national legislative session, underlining the efforts and resources the country is willing to offer to upgrade its cities.
"The phrase "countercyclical adjustments" was newly added compared with the statement from the second-quarter meeting in June, which experts said signaled the central bank's proactive stance of continuing policy support for the country's improving recovery momentum, with retail sales accelerating in August while industrial profits improved.
Stock-market investors in China are favorably disposed toward State-owned enterprises listed in the A-share market as "the valuation system with Chinese characteristics" has become a buzz phrase among market mavens, following the advanced state of SOE reform, experts said.
Not everyone in the Chinese stock market is familiar with the phrase though.
The registration-based IPO mechanism has been a buzz phrase in the Chinese market over the past few years as an indicator of its maturity.
On June 28, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, announced in a statement released after a quarterly meeting of its monetary policy committee that it will work to "strike a balance between economic recovery and risk prevention", a phrase worthy of attention.
Analysts said the phrase "or higher", used in the report, is a new expression that may indicate a willingness to raise the level later if necessary.
But in the first-quarter report, the PBOC removed the phrase "will avoid taking a flood irrigation type approach to easing", which was in the previous report for the fourth quarter of 2019.
As a financial journalist whose beat includes the monetary system and the central bank, I find the phrase "RMB internationalization" encouraging and confusing at the same time.
Confusing because the phrase, it seems, means many things to many people, and there's no consensus on its precise definition.
Regulators have encouraged listed firms to offer more yields to investors in the stock market, where dividend payouts were previously infrequent, and vowed to punish the stingy "iron roosters", a phrase taken from a Chinese term to describe a miserly person.
According to Adelaide-based legal firm KHQ Lawyers, WeBank is seeking to trademark the phrase "WeBank" and a series of Chinese characters that can be translated into English as "microloan", according to the report.
Most of the planned "investments with impact", to borrow a phrase from Naina Subberwal Batra, chairperson of the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network, are done by rich families looking to diversify their portfolios.
In the media, headlines screamed terms and phrases like "blockchain", "decentralization" and "distributed ledger".
Other key phrases they will track are high-quality development, rural revitalization, environmental protection, medical care, food safety, military industry and a "long-term mechanism" for real estate regulation that encourages both home sales and rentals, according to Li Shaojun, an equity strategist at Guotai Junan Securities Co Ltd. All this could mean potential opportunities for investment in advanced manufacturing, poverty-relief efforts in rural areas, pollution control and housing, Li said.
Originally, the phrase was invented to show the helplessness of people trapped in a rat race that has little significance, but as time went by it has also been used to criticize people who are not enterprising or not making an effort to improve.
It is not the first instance of the phrase "lie flat" being used in an official document to push for better performance from officials.
The phrase common prosperity has gained prominence this year, as China is determined to bring better lives to more people.