Mary's marriage becomes too
restrictive.
玛丽的婚姻对她约束太多。
Eric finds the job too
restrictive.
埃里克觉得这份工作束缚太多。
Tom is self-employed because he finds working for other people too
restrictive.
汤姆是个自由职业者，因为他觉得在别人手下工作太不自由。
The
restrictive immigration policies have led to a significant decrease in the number of foreign workers in the country.
**限制性的移民政策导致该国外籍工人数量显著减少。**
The school has implemented a
restrictive dress code, banning certain types of clothing and accessories.
**学校实施了严格的着装规定，禁止某些类型的衣服和配饰。**
Due to the
restrictive nature of the diet, many people find it difficult to adhere to a vegan lifestyle long-term.
**由于饮食的严格限制性，许多人发现长期坚持纯素食生活方式很困难。**
The new zoning laws impose
restrictive measures on property development in environmentally sensitive areas.
**新的区域规划法对环境敏感区域的房产开发施加了严格的限制措施。**
The study was criticized for its overly
restrictive inclusion criteria, which excluded a large portion of the population.
**该研究因纳入标准过于严格而受到批评，排除了大量人群。**
The government's
restrictive censorship laws have stifled free speech and artistic expression in the country.
**政府的限制性审查法律压制了国家的言论自由和艺术表达。**
The
restrictive parenting style can hinder a child's emotional and social development by not allowing enough autonomy.
**限制性的育儿方式通过不允许孩子有足够的自主权，可能会阻碍其情感和社会发展。**
The exclusive club has a highly
restrictive membership policy, making it nearly impossible for outsiders to join.
**这个独家俱乐部有非常严格的会员政策，使得外人几乎不可能加入。**
The research was conducted under
restrictive laboratory conditions that did not reflect real-world scenarios.
**这项研究在严格的实验室条件下进行，未能反映现实世界的情况。**
The city's
restrictive parking regulations have forced many residents to rely on public transportation or carpooling.
**该市严格的停车规定迫使许多居民依赖公共交通或拼车。**
What we have seen in recent years, as a result of positive dialogues between investors and the government, is a continuous opening-up and relaxation of what perhaps were quite restrictive policies in the past.
"It's been a pleasure serving the Far South Side over the past two months, but unfortunately the city's restrictive regulations have made it impossible for us to continue providing our more accessible and convenient transit option," Ofo said in a statement.
Their comments came after Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs, emphasized the importance of introducing more policies that will help stabilize expectations, growth and employment, as well as the need to "cautiously release contractive and restrictive policies", to create favorable conditions for development.
It is important for the nation to better coordinate fiscal and monetary policies, as well as economic and noneconomic policies, to prevent some restrictive noneconomic policies — including those on industrial regulation and environmental protection — from offsetting the positive effect of economic policies, he said.
Li Haidong, a professor at China Foreign Affairs University's Institute of International Relations in Beijing, said that restrictive US measures toward China, particularly in the field of advanced technology, will ultimately backfire.
The scope of restrictive measures is continually expanding.
In recent years, the rising tide of protectionism and anti-globalization in some countries, especially developed nations, has led to their adoption of restrictive trade and investment measures, casting doubt on the prospects of an open global economy.
Region's restrictive trade measures have negative impact on exporters, says ministryA preliminary investigation has found that the Taiwan region's restrictions on products from the Chinese mainland are suspected of violating rules set by the World Trade Organization, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
"Due to restrictive trade measures adopted by Taiwan, products from the mainland, such as petrochemicals, textiles, electromechanical equipment, automobiles and high-quality but inexpensive agricultural produce and daily necessities, cannot be exported to Taiwan, which has had a negative impact on exporting enterprises," she said.
Zhou Mi, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said that Taiwan's restrictive trade measures on products from the mainland disrupt trade and investment, and severely harm the interests of consumers and enterprises in the region.
With increasingly restrictive global credit conditions, one out of every four EMDEs has lost access to international bond markets, and growth projections for these economies for 2023 are less than half of those made a year ago, making them highly vulnerable to additional shocks.
The two sides should manage their differences and reach a consensus on gradually phasing out restrictive measures, as a stable and sound China-US relationship is in the common interest of the two peoples and the anchor of world economic growth, he said.
It would be helpful to reduce administrative controls on consumers' spending behavior and revise the policies that are restrictive of sales of residential properties, automobiles and some services, he said.
He also said restrictive trade measures against China undermine the development of bilateral economic and trade relations, weaken the US' comparative advantage and the competitiveness of US products, and harm the confidence and willingness of enterprises from the two countries to strengthen cooperation.
"China has repeatedly stressed that the inspection and quarantine and trade remedy measures taken by its government units strictly comply with Chinese laws and regulations, and the World Trade Organization rules, and it is inappropriate to misinterpret them as restrictive measures," she said.
The US government's move to define China-US relations as "strategic competition," and its series of trade and investment restrictive measures, as well as protectionist practices against China, have harmed the interests of businesses and people of the two countries, said Wang.
The NDRC also vowed to better implement the negative list system, which details forbidden or restrictive areas for foreign investment, which has been shortened in recent years.
The binary practice refers to platforms forcing merchants to have exclusive partnerships or distribution channels with them alone in a sort of monopolistic or restrictive manner.
Under this world's largest FTA, more than 90 percent of the goods between China and ASEAN countries can be traded at zero tariffs, and restrictive measures on services and investment have also been substantially lifted.
Based on the above information, it is obvious that there is still great potential for consumption recovery, and the key to unleashing that potential is to identify restrictive factors.
No new restrictive measures on car purchases shall be set at the sub-national level.
No new restrictive measures on car purchases will be set at the local level, and localities with purchasing restrictions already in place should increase new license plate quotas step by step.
No new restrictive measures on car purchases will be set at the sub-national level.
"The contrast in the region is that the region has been very open to trade and investment in goods, and that's how a lot of the growth came, but it has been relatively restrictive to trade and investment in services," World Bank East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist Aaditya Mattoo told Xinhua.
These include formulation of a high-standard negative list for cross-border services trade in Qianhai, relaxing or removing restrictive measures on businesses, cross-border supplies and the flow of personnel.
China will unveil the new negative list by the end of the year, Liu said, adding that the number of items on the list will be reduced, the restrictive measures will be more precise, and the management framework and model will be improved.
As higher-level opening-up has been enhancing trade in services by removing restrictive measures, the sector grew robustly and helped attract a large amount of foreign investment in recent years, said Chen Chunjiang, director-general of the ministry's department of trade in services and commercial services.
商务部服务贸易和商贸服务业司司长陈春江表示，随着更高水平对外开放不断推进，通过取消限制性措施，服务业贸易得到显著增强，在近年来吸引了大量外商投资。
China has been shortening negative lists since 2017, and about two thirds of the restrictive measures have been reduced in the past few years, Bai said.
The South Asian country has imposed a lockdown twice to contain the virus, though the restrictive measures have been eased in the past weeks.
At the event organized by the National School of Development at Peking University, Xu said restrictive production measures in certain sectors may have hampered supply capacity of certain industries like steel.
He further said it is advisable that similar restrictive policies be phased out in a gradual and apt manner to keep the supply side stable and better defuse inflation.
Xu noted that at regional and local levels, some restrictive policies on certain industries like iron and steel may have slowed domestic supply recovery.
And Credit insurer Euler Hermes predicted that the common rule of origin could increase intra-regional trade by $90 billion annually, and the RCEP's less restrictive rules, compared with other FTAs, imply fewer impediments for trade in the region.
China will fully implement a new negative list for foreign investment and further lift restrictive measures, according to the MOC.
Wang, the commerce minister, stressed that WTO members should strengthen their notifications about trade related measures in response to COVID-19, move forward the initiative on the liberalization of trade in medical products, maintain open markets, avoid imposing restrictive trade measures and keep global supply and industrial chains stable.
"We will further ease market access, through implementing the new version of the negative lists (released in June last year) and further lifting restrictive measures," he said, adding that the country will also have more pilots to further open up the service sector this year.
China will fully implement the new negative list for foreign investment and further lift restrictive measures, Zong Changqing, a MOC official, told a press briefing.
Opposing any discriminatory and restrictive measures against Chinese companies, China has asked the Indian side for clarifications on the permanent ban to be imposed on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps in June, as some Indian media reported.
Li attributed such adjustments to the reimposition of restrictive measures in China following sporadic new COVID-19 cases, which is weighing noticeably on the services sector, and the rapid growth in commodity and upstream raw-material costs that could potentially endanger profit margins.
Antitrust law enforcement agencies in countries and economies in the world have taken tough regulatory stances and restrictive measures on online platforms.
Greater support will be given to expand automobile consumption, including fine-tuning restrictive measures on automobiles purchase, stimulating secondhand automobile market, and promoting new energy vehicle development.
Great support will be given to expand automobile consumption, including adjusting restrictive measures on automobile purchases, stimulating the second-hand automobile market, and promote the use of new energy vehicles.
Meanwhile, new measures to bolster investment may include those to eliminate restrictive policies to activate the vitality of various market entities, strengthen investments in key technology areas and promote high-quality development in infrastructure, transportation, energy and digitalization.
The council believes China's control of 70 percent of the market for some key components for offshore wind projects means "restrictive trade policies such as those proposed by the EU and the US look certain to create bottlenecks".
The EU has implemented a range of restrictive measures, including maintaining high tariff rates for several years and enforcing more than 60 anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on steel products originating from various countries and regions, said He Yadong, the ministry's spokesman.
"Bold moves" to relax the administrative restrictive measures, such as purchase and sales restrictions as well as price limits, can be considered.
Xiong from Guosheng Securities said some existing restrictive measures in first-tier and second-tier cities will be eased in the near term.
Second, the nation should increase financial support to help homebuyers afford better living spaces, and reduce non-market-oriented restrictive housing purchase policies.
As China further expands the opening-up of the service trade, canceling and relaxing restrictive measures, the sector has witnessed robust growth in recent years.
随着中国持续推进服务业对外开放，取消和放宽限制性措施，近年来该领域实现了强劲增长。
Amid such a market situation, the central authorities announced restrictive measures to control the building of ultrahigh edifices over the past few years, and the cooling of the skyscraper sector signals that China's urban construction scenario is entering a higher level that sharpens focus on the integration of urban buildings and local natural and cultural elements.
面对这样的市场形势，中央政府在过去几年中已宣布对超高层建筑采取限制性措施，而摩天大楼行业的降温则表明，中国城市建设格局正步入一个更高级阶段，这一阶段更加注重城市建筑与本土自然、文化元素的融合。
To be specific, from the supply and demand perspective, he suggested adopting restrictive environmental protection measures, as well as those on carbon emissions and energy consumption, while implementing an information technology-empowered warning system to prevent excessive crude steel output.
具体来说，从供需的角度出发，他建议采取限制性的环境保护措施，以及关于碳排放和能源消耗的措施，并实施基于信息技术的支持系统来预警，以防止粗钢产量过度增长。
But, restrictive factors, including slowing income growth and the wealth gap, pose challenges to the healthy development of the industry, said Cao Yuanzheng, chairman of BOCI Research Limited.
但是，包括收入增长放缓和贫富差距在内的限制性因素对行业的健康发展构成了挑战，中银国际研究公司董事长曹远征说。
The sharp decrease in coal exports was largely due to restrictive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.
煤炭出口的急剧减少很大程度上是由于实施限制措施以控制COVID-19的传播。
As cross-border e-commerce embraced robust growth, China's foreign trade also beat market expectations in recent months despite the adverse impact from shrinking global demand and restrictive overseas measures to contain the pandemic.
随着跨境电子商务的蓬勃发展，中国的对外贸易也顶住了疫情带来的全球需求萎缩和海外限制措施的压力，在最近几个月里超出了市场的预期。
"To contain the risks, central authorities have reiterated that "housing is for living in, not for speculation," and implemented various restrictive policies such as higher down payment ratio for second homes and crackdowns on shadow banking loans to speculators.
为了控制风险，中央政府重申"房子是用来住的，不是用来炒的"，并实施了各种限制性政策，如提高第二套住房的首付比例和打击投机者的影子银行贷款。
As cross-border e-commerce embraced robust growth, China's foreign trade also beat market expectations in recent months, despite adverse impacts from shrinking global demand and overseas restrictive measures to contain the pandemic.
“随着跨境电子商务的强劲增长，尽管全球需求萎缩和海外遏制疫情的限制措施带来的不利影响，中国对外贸易在最近几个月也超过了市场预期。”
"Some countries have taken restrictive measures such as canceling flights and increased inspection and quarantine requirements for imported goods, which have had an impact on China's cross-border e-commerce, especially in the export trade," China International Electronic Commerce Center analyst Li Mingtao said.
"For long, the limited number of general aviation airports and inadequate support facilities have been one of the restrictive factors that hampered the growth of the general aviation sector," said Lin Zhijie, an aviation industry analyst and columnist at Carnoc, one of China's largest civil aviation websites.
Amid the mounting expectations of more restrictive measures to rein in onshore financing, many property developers are turning their attention overseas as an alternative.
"Honeywell's Oleflex process is an important technology for China as the market grapples with booming demand coupled with a more restrictive regulatory environment," said Henry Liu, vice-president and general manager of Honeywell UOP, China.
The country will improve foreign investment environment across the board and clear up restrictive regulations on foreign investment that go beyond the official negative list, according to He.
Analysts suggested that under the restrictive measures, developers with healthy capital flows regard M&As as an opportunity to increase their land and project stock.
Due to the wide application of semiconductor chips, these restrictive measures will have a profound impact on the development of the semiconductor industry in China and Japan, she added.
The restrictive clause has been removed in all sectors of the automotive industry.
In a bid to spur car consumption, a State Council executive meeting on Wednesday said that no new restrictive measures on car purchases shall be set at the sub-national level.
In addition, many regions, especially counties and rural areas, still have less restrictive rules on motorcycles," Zhou said.
In a document released on Friday, the Guangdong government said it is to ease limits on car purchases in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and ask other cities in the province not to introduce restrictive measures.
China's Ministry of Commerce, together with another 11 ministries and commissions, issued a notice last week that called for cities with restrictive measures on car purchases to relax the measures.
The body agreed to stabilize and expand auto consumption, encourage the local authorities to fine-tune restrictive measures regarding car purchases and raise the license plate quota ceiling.
Analysts said cities with such restrictive measures include Beijing, Shanghai as well Guangzhou and Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province, and people there on average have a higher income level and thus good purchasing power.
When you get more restrictive cities in terms of license registration, people want to upgrade to premium cars, and we will benefit from that," he told China Daily on Friday.
Such restrictive practices did not help make the cyberspace an open, transparent and shared arena for all, experts said.
The transaction scale of the online transportation market decreased 15.7 percent year-on-year to 288.6 billion yuan because of the COVID-19 epidemic's restrictive effect on transportation last year, with the online car-hailing transaction scale down 17.9 percent year-on-year to 249.91 billion yuan, while the transaction scale of shared two-wheelers (bicycle and electric bicycle) surpassed 29.13 billion yuan.
After the US adopted a string of restrictive measures on Huawei in 2019, citing national security concerns, the project took on more urgency.
The Indian government is abusing the concept of national security, and has adopted discriminatory and restrictive measures against Chinese enterprises, which are in violation of the World Trade Organization rules, ministry spokesman Gao Feng said during a news briefing.
"The Indian government are abusing the concept of 'national security', and it has adopted discriminatory and restrictive measures against Chinese enterprises, which violated World Trade Organization rules," ministry spokesman Gao Feng said at a news conference.
The report indicated a growing likelihood of the first-tier cities easing their property market restrictive measures in the short term as their areas of weekly home sales have dropped by nearly 30 percent compared with July since the beginning of August.
Standards and processes used in the supervision of traditional financial services should also be applied to fintech, to preempt monopolies and restrictive or unfair trade practices that typically lead to winner-take-all situations, which in turn necessitate "too big to fail" rules.
The same would be true for less restrictive policies intended to get people back to work, Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas, told Reuters.
Efforts are also being intensified to clean up the restrictive measures on foreign investments that are not specified on the revised negative lists, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
The guideline further illustrates the business types, adds restrictive measures for unqualified companies and details the negative lists for the development of risk management business, an official with CFA said.
But the vast majority are still spending in a restrictive manner.
"For example, China should avoid nationwide easing of restrictive policies on the property market, which will probably direct the liquidity released to support small enterprises into the property market ultimately," Liu said.
Internet finance, as an emerging industry that is easy to fall into "barbarian growth", needs to strengthen self-discipline capacity or use external restrictive mechanisms to clarify the behavior and business boundaries, said Ben Shenglin, founding dean of the Zhejiang University Academy of internet Finance.
[Photo by Peng Huan/For China Daily]Real estate developers listed in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong plunged on Monday as restrictive residential property sales policies were extended further across the nation and greater policy tighetening is expected over the next few months.
The CSRC has recently added restrictive measures on stock-selling by big shareholders.
It stipulates that China has the right to take, as called for, measures to counter or take restrictive measures against acts that endanger its sovereignty, national security and development interests in violation of international law or fundamental norms governing international relations.
The law states that China "has the right to take, as called for, measures to counter or take restrictive measures against acts that endanger its sovereignty, security and development interests in violation of international law or fundamental norms governing international relations.
The envoys echoed infectious disease experts from around the world who have voiced opposition to Western governments' restrictive policies for travelers from China, saying such measures are unscientific, unnecessary and political displays.