The mask
shadowed her face.
面具遮住了她的脸。
It was without a
shadow of a doubt the best I have scored.
毫无疑问，这是我取得的最好成绩。
The global financial crisis casts a
shadow over national development plan.
全球金融危机给国家发展计划蒙上了阴影。
Across the great spectrum of products, Palace Museum-themed lipsticks and a makeup series including eye shadow and blush have been extremely successful.
在各种各样的产品中，故宫主题口红和包括眼影和脸红在内的化妆品系列都非常成功。
The nation has long been known for its edge in infrastructure construction, which has played a significant role in the country's economy over the past few years, especially under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
长期以来，该国以其在基础设施建设方面的优势而闻名，在过去几年中，特别是在新冠肺炎疫情的阴影下，基础设施建设在该国经济中发挥了重要作用。
Those products include eye shadow compact and foundation, and they were sought after by consumers.
Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said the two State-owned grid plays are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic's shadow, not just because of the rapidly recovering economy and power demand, but also thanks to the lifting of a 2020 policy that reduced all commercial and industrial power tariffs by 5 percent.
In addition, it opened the first immersion shadow canteen in Qianmen of Beijing recently, the first of its kind among time-honored brands in China, the Shanghai Securities News said on Tuesday.
The company has helped numerous villages in the Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces come out of the poverty shadow.
The general manager expressed his confidence in the Chinese market despite the shadow of the coronavirus.
"High morbidity and low rate of reconstruction left women in the shadow of losing breasts after breast cancer operation, which brings great pressure and turmoil," she said.
"Sales dropped dramatically in February, as the novel coronavirus epidemic cast a lengthy shadow on retail business," said Ye Guofu, co-founder and CEO of Miniso.
The novel coronavirus epidemic cast a lengthy shadow on the catering business, with most operators forced to suspend operations during the period.
Under the shadow of the outbreak, Bestore closed some of its stores and shifted its business focus online.
Given the "cash crunch", the shadow of "layoffs" has always been there.
Over the past two years, high-risk financial assets decreased by 13.74 trillion yuan due to dismantling of risks related to shadow banking activities.
"Previously, Enders had warnedxa0that the implications of Brexit cast a shadow over Airbus’s long-term future in the UK, calling the British government’s handling of the issue a “disgrace” and warning that Airbus may leave the UK altogether if a deal cannot be reached for the country’s withdrawal from the European Union before the March 29 deadline.
China's deleveraging and risk reduction campaign showed initial signs of success in 2018, but it also constrained small and private businesses from finding credit in the less-regulated shadow banking sector.
Other ongoing reforms include creating a development plan and improving regulations on fintech services, in order to further open the onshore bond market and crack down on shadow banking and internet financing risks, the central bank official statement said.
Global prices for memory chips turned downward recently, casting a shadow on Samsung's fourth-quarter earnings.
Meituan's trading debut, coming at a delicate time when escalating Sino-US trade tensions cast a shadow over stock market and the flagship Hang Seng Index has technically entered a bear market, turned out to contribute to one-tenth of total trading volume on the local stock market on Thursday.
Rengifo cited the shadow banking and soaring student loan debt as threats.
While shadow banking can provide valuable liquidity to support growth, leaving it unregulated and growing at a rapid pace invites trouble.
"For China, the core issue under the shadow of the Sino-US trade skirmish is solving our own problems at home.
The mega-sized deal comes at a delicate time, as escalating Sino-US trade tension casts a shadow over the city's stock market and the lukewarm performance of high-profile companies including Ping An Good Doctor and Xiaomi dampens investor enthusiasm.
But, as escalating Sino-US trade tensions cast a shadow over the city's stock market, analysts said the company could face a tough reality check amid muted investor demand and lackluster market performance.
The US-initiated trade dispute has triggered retaliatory reactions from the country's major trading partners, casting a shadow over the business of global multinational firms.
Lack of enthusiasm casting a shadow over would-be blockbuster HK listingA lukewarm response from retail investors is casting a shadow over technology juggernaut Xiaomi's IPO in Hong Kong, a setback that could apply a sudden brake on the city-wide 'New Economy' IPO spree in the months ahead.
Xie's comments were echoed by Wang Xi, head of a shadow play troupe in Beijing.
China's tighter regulation on shadow banking will likely make private equity investment a more attractive financing option for local Chinese firms that face limited access to direct financing, Marchick added.
In terms of the economy, President Xi and other prominent leaders have highlighted the systemic risks in the shadow banking sector.
NEW YORK - US car hailing giant Uber reported on Wednesday that its gross bookings rose 17 percent to $8.7 billion in the second quarter, as the company was still under the shadow of series of scandals earlier this year.
Cui Hongjian, professor of the Academy of Regional and Global Governance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said that it reflected a commitment from both nations to foster open and fair trade in an era where protectionism has cast a shadow over international commerce.
Market mavens are quick to observe that over the past few years, geopolitical tensions have not only shaken many investors' confidence, but cast a long shadow over the global markets.
The country has stepped away from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet we don't see much data on how much lingering scarring effects there will be.
Advanced light and shadow art, illuminated landscapes, naked-eye 3D videos and fireworks shows were also showcased.
As soon as it emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and returned to normal life earlier this year, the city threw its doors open wider to the outside world, looking to build on old connections and make new friends as an open city embracing international cooperation.
This, experts said, indicates that employment in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sectors likely contracted in March, casting a shadow over the job market.
Chilean cherries, Norwegian salmon, New Zealand milk, French red wine and eye shadow and moisturizer from Japan arrive in fine shape at her door in just a few days.
The latest light and shadow art show in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, has energized the city's nighttime economy and diversified its public spaces.
The third Glow Shenzhen show, with the theme of "Chasing the Flowing Light", displayed a total of 217 pieces of light and shadow artworks by curators and artists around the globe since it kicked off at the end of last year.
In Shenzhen OCT Harbour, one of the city's major shopping areas, the art of light and shadow refreshed the shopping experience for visitors and stimulated the nighttime economy.
"The art of light and shadow can take root in Shenzhen," he said.
Despite the overall profit decline in 2022, signs showed that China's industrial firms were on the right track to profit recovery, as the country continued to emerge from its COVID shadow.
- With long queues outside restaurants, crowded subway cars, and active machines in factories and on building sites, the Chinese economy is shaking off its COVID shadow and has gotten off to a good start in 2023.
However, the country is emerging from the shadow of the pandemic and is tackling its property market challenges head on, which should lead to an improved GDP growth of 4.9 percent in 2023 — not the big bounce markets want, but healthy growth all the same.
Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic in three years, apart from damaging people's health and welfare, has also been casting a shadow over China's socioeconomic development, with symptoms shown including enterprises' fear of investing, residents' spending timidity, and weakening confidence and expectations among economic entities.
- With a new policy mix unveiled at a meeting last week, China, the world's second-largest economy, is ramping up efforts to ensure an overall recovery next year despite the looming shadow of a global economic recession.
On this note, it would be good for China to continue her engagement efforts with local, foreign enterprises and investors to understand how their investment and business needs evolve as the country emerges from the shadow of the pandemic.
China's economy has gradually emerged from the shadow of COVID-19, with major indexes showing a better performance in May.
The expanding commodity market added evidence of an economy emerging from the COVID-19 shadow, with disrupted factory activities and normal lives being back on track.
Though China has been enjoying a faster recovery due to its more effective containment measures, new outbreaks in parts of the country keep casting a shadow over economic momentum, weighing on employment and preventing the economy from returning to a steady growth track at a time when demand is still relatively weak, and real estate is experiencing an overall downturn.
As the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, geo-political conflicts and other rising uncertainties cast a shadow over the global trade, China's foreign trade sustained resilience and growth momentum, contributing to stabilizing the global supply chain.
The supply chain crisis is another difficult problem to solve in the shadow of the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis, which Srinivasan described as "one crisis on top of the other crisis".
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has cast a shadow over the global economy.
Global energy demand has been getting out of the shadow of the pandemic with a clear rebound and will contribute to the coming rise in oil prices, said Luo Zuoxian, head of intelligence and research at the Sinopec Economics and Development Research Institute.
To ring in the Chinese New Year (of the tiger), and to lift my spirits from the long shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, I used apps to buy Chilean cherries, Norwegian salmon, New Zealand milk and French red wine.
Natalya Ivanova, an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said global recovery remains unbalanced as the pandemic continued to cast a shadow over economies around the world.
"At the same time, credit to the real estate sector and shadow bank financing will remain tightly regulated.
But industry policies to resolve risks in critical areas like debt of State-owned enterprises, local governments and property developers, and the shadow banking sector will continue throughout the year, he said.
The CBIRC will persevere with the disposal of risks at high-risk financial institutions, deal with a rebound of nonperforming assets, strictly prevent a resurgence of high-risk shadow banking activities, contain property developers' activities in the financial sector in multiple aspects, cooperate with local governments to mitigate risks from hidden debt and avoid triggering secondary financial risks during the process of handling risks in other areas.
The 75-year-old man grew up under the shadow of serfdom, with his parents working as unpaid laborers for landlords.
This might have cast a shadow on the region's nascent economic recovery, said David Chao, Global Market Strategist, Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) at Invesco.
"Monetary policy will likely prioritize financial stability to a larger extent, especially in regard to real estate and shadow banking financing," it added.
Despite the shadow of the so-called "decoupling" theory and the threat of protectionism, foreign enterprises have recognized China's progress in improving its business environment.
"He debuted in front of the camera during his shop's Black Friday campaign, during which he marketed lipsticks, eye shadow palettes and other cosmetics.
The hidden dangers of China's shadow banking sector have shown fundamental improvement, as the wild growth of shadow banking in the country has been contained effectively due to a nationwide crackdown on such activities since 2017.
The broad measure of shadow banking, which is defined by the Financial Stability Board as credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system, fell to 84.8 trillion yuan ($13 trillion) as of the end of 2019, down from 100.4 trillion yuan at the beginning of 2017.
The narrow measure of shadow banking, which includes interbank investments through special purpose vehicles, interbank wealth management, entrusted loans, trust loans and online peer-to-peer lending, dropped by 11.87 trillion yuan from a historical peak to 39.14 trillion yuan at the end of last year, said a report issued by a research group of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
The commission systematically defines shadow banking in China for the first time.
With the development of cross-sector, cross-market comprehensive operation of financial business, China's shadow banking sector saw a rapid rise after 2008, increasing the level of financial leverage, falsely encouraging funds to remain idle within the financial system, and concealing the real situation of banks' asset quality, said the report published on Friday on the WeChat official account of Financial Regulation Research, a Beijing-based monthly journal.
Ever since then, the shadow banking sector has steadily declined relative to the formal banking system, Moody's Investors Service said.
"Overexpansion of shadow banking will bring risks to macroeconomic regulation and financial stability," said Wen Bin, chief analyst at China Minsheng Banking Corp. "In the past few years, regulatory measures to deleverage and remove channels — usually nonbank vehicles through which banks, companies and individuals invest customers' deposits or their own money in high-yield products to achieve higher returns — have achieved significant results.
Regulators also clamped down on illegal fundraising and online lending activities, tightened cross-sector financial supervision and implemented capital appropriation and provisioning requirements for shadow banking.
"We will keep improving the regulations and the risk monitoring system of shadow banking, persevere in dismantling high-risk shadow banking, and take precautions against a rebound in this type of business," said Liu Zhongrui, an inspector of the commission's Statistics, IT and Risk Surveillance Department, at a briefing on Sept 14.
Liu Aihua, a spokeswoman for the NBS, said that China's retail industry has stepped out of the dark shadow of the pandemic and is demonstrating a recovery.
- China's National Day holiday, or the Golden Week holiday, this year has emerged from the shadow of COVID-19 as more than 600 million tourists made domestic trips, showing China's strong rebound from the pandemic, which will give global economic recovery a leg up.
"During this year's Nov 11 shopping spree, she bought homegrown eye shadow palette, loose powder and lipstick while watching livestreaming sessions on e-commerce platforms.
MoldBreaking has developed a mix of top products from various cosmetics brands in special sections called "Chinese style zones", located in makeup shops and featuring items such as face powders from Florasis, Into You lip gloss and eye shadow from Perfect Diary.
The event takes place in an outdoor space of 19,000 square meters and features 15 immersive scenes that bring light and shadow to life.
On the cruises, tourists can enjoy night views, talk shows, dancing, acrobatics and shadow plays.
China's private sector is growing in significance, emerging from the long shadow of State-owned enterprises that dominated business and industry for decades.
As business and life are gradually returning to normal in Shanghai, I have also discovered quite a few signs showing that the Chinese metropolis' property market is walking out of the lockdown shadow and geared up for a recovery.
Global oil and gas demand has been emerging from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic with a clear rebound.
Global energy demand has been emerging from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic with a clear rebound and will contribute to the coming rise in oil prices, Luo said.
"Global energy demand is also getting out of the shadow of the pandemic with a clear rebound, which will contribute to the coming rise in oil prices," he said.
At the beginning of this year, Perfect Diary, a sub-brand under Yatsen Holding Ltd, launched autonomous sensory meridian response videos, which played the sounds associated with Perfect Diary's eye shadow palette and lipsticks.
Among exported cosmetics, lipsticks, eye shadow and blushes were the bestsellers, while mascara and facial powder showed great sales potential, said the report from AskCI.
Isaac Yao, who works at a multinational agricultural company in Beijing, said the discharge of contaminated water would definitely cast a shadow over his food choices at Japanese restaurants and on shopping at supermarkets.
However, looking around her dressing table today, eye shadow palettes and lipsticks of domestic brands take up the most space and foreign brands are nowhere to be seen.
These eye shadow palettes produced by Perfect Diary are from the collaboration series between Perfect Diary and the Discovery Channel.
"Inspired by natural colors in the wild, each eye shadow palette is based on a color scheme and named after an animal.
Apart from the beautiful packaging, the eye shadow palette itself is very practical.
To better build brand image, on March 5, Perfect Diary launched its red-crowned crane eye shadow palette under its Discovery series.
Zeesea, also based in Hangzhou, cooperated with the British Museum and launched a co-branded series of eye shadow palettes.
The aviation industry will benefit from the low-carbon progress, with the industry still making many technological breakthroughs toward low carbon emissions in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, news portal Sina reported on Thursday, citing Dr Fang Liu, the secretary-general of the International Civil Aviation Organization, at this year's Davos Agenda event of the World Economic Forum.
Many orders were canceled in March and April due to the epidemic, casting a shadow on the business of Shunmei Group, a leading ceramics exporter in Dehua County of east China's Fujian province, said Zheng, the group's general manager.
"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.
Retailers in China are revamping their marketing strategies to cater to the diverse demands of consumers, especially for those who search uniqueness and social interactions in their purchases, as the sector looks to emerge from the shadow of the novel coronavirus epidemic, said experts.
Located at the foot of a mountain some 70 km from Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi province, the Yuanjiacun village provides tourists with an authentic country landscape, lots of local snacks and shadow puppetry shows.
- US crude oil plunged nearly 20 percent to below $15 per barrel on Monday, hitting the lowest level in more than a decade as the COVID-19 pandemic cast a shadow over the global market.
Sales of eyeliners and eye shadow products made by foreign brands rose by 40 percent on a yearly basis on Tmall, the online shopping platform of Alibaba Group, during the first three months of this year, according to company officials.
"The penetration rate of eye shadow products in China has exceeded South Korea, where the makeup market is highly mature.