Mary gave her son's arm a tender squeeze.
玛丽轻轻地捏了一下她儿子的手臂。
Eric is squeezing me for a sum of money.
埃里克逼我拿出一笔钱。
She
squeezed his hand tightly, expressing her love and support.
她紧紧地握住他的手，表达她的爱和支持。
The child tried to squeeze through the small gap in the fence.
孩子试图挤过篱笆上的小缝隙。
He
squeezed the lemon to get the last drop of juice.
他用力挤柠檬，以获取最后一滴汁液。
In the crowded subway, I had to squeeze myself into a corner.
在拥挤的地铁里，我不得不挤到一个角落里。
The pressure of work has been squeezing all the fun out of my life.
工作的压力已经把生活中的乐趣都挤掉了。
The company needs to squeeze more efficiency from its operations.
公司需要从其运营中榨取更高的效率。
She
squeezed a dollop of shampoo onto her hand.
她在手上挤了一大团洗发水。
The crowd
squeezed together to watch the parade.
人群挤在一起观看游行。
The old man
squeezed the balloon until it popped.
老人把气球挤到爆炸。
Can you squeeze me in for a haircut this afternoon?" (你今天下午能给我挤出时间剪头发吗？
Still, he squeezed time to attend the 133rd China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou.
尽管如此，他还是挤出时间参加了在中国南方大都市广州举行的第133届中国进出口商品交易会（广交会）。
"The economic downturn that most parts of the world are undergoing now has somehow squeezed out the bubbles created when the market was overheated," he said.
他说：“世界大多数地区现在正在经历的经济衰退以某种方式挤出了市场过热时产生的泡沫。”。
ByteDance, which operates viral short video platform Douyin, also saw squeezed online ad margins, according to reports by several Chinese media outlets including 36kr and LatePost, citing company insiders.
据36kr和LatePost等多家中国媒体援引公司内部人士的话报道，运营病毒式短视频平台抖音的字节跳动的在线广告利润也受到挤压。
European Union regulators hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5.16 billion) antitrust fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
2018年，欧盟监管机构对谷歌开出创纪录的43亿欧元（合516亿美元）反垄断罚单，原因是该公司利用其Android移动操作系统排挤竞争对手。
In November, Beijing introduced a slew of draft rules aimed at curbing anti-competitive behavior such as forming alliances to squeeze out smaller players, plotting to share sensitive consumer data and forcing merchants to take sides among competing platforms.
11月，北京出台了一系列草案，旨在打击结盟排挤小型竞争对手、合谋分享敏感消费者数据以及强迫商家在相互竞争的平台之间选边站等反竞争行为。
"Today, a raft of popular short video apps such as Douyin gradually dominate Chinese netizens' screens, which could squeeze out livestreaming providers.
"Liao said newcomers such as video-sharing platform Bilibili and short video app Kuaishou will not squeeze out livestreaming giants Douyu and Huya, as they cater to different user groups.
But Adam Zhang, founder of Key-Solution Sports Consulting Company, said the discounts offered by international brands have gradually squeezed the market share of domestic sportswear brands.
Halting production will ease a severe squeeze on cash tied up in roughly 375 undelivered planes, but only at the risk of causing industrial problems when Boeing tries to return to normal, industry sources said.
While the US economy now appears steady, a downturn could squeeze WeWork, because it signed long-term leases for its buildings, but short-term deals with tenants.
But overall such trends will inevitably squeeze profit margins, as average spending per capita from these cities is normally lower than those in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, said Cao Lei, director of the China E-Commerce Research Center.
Data-driven technology, closer cooperation and joint governance put a further squeeze on counterfeiters on China's leading e-commerce platforms last year, Alibaba's annual report on intellectual property protection said.
"With joint efforts of the whole society and Alibaba, the space for counterfeiters was squeezed to a high degree last year," said Zheng Junfang, Alibaba's chief platform governance officer.
While it jumped to be one of the top five companies in the world in terms of market value at the beginning of this year, along with Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp, it has now been squeezed out of the top 10 list.
A record 162 companies from the services sector squeezed onto the list of the top 500 in 2018, up from 117 a year earlier.
"Right now, margins are squeezed.
The US faces its own squeeze on aviation talent because many of the current crop of pilots are aged 65, the mandatory retirement age.
A record 120 Chinese companies have squeezed onto the latest Fortune Global 500 list, only six places fewer than the top performer, the United States－marking the 15th consecutive year that the country's companies have increased their presence on the list.
Any sale by J&J of its diabetes device units would fit with a drive to exit from lower-margin, commoditized categories such as glucose meters and strips, but analysts said Asian buyers may be able to squeeze more out of the assets.
"But unlike mobile applications sectors where a price war will squeeze out many startups, the smart speaker industry will always have room for players with core technologies," Li said.
Customers, squeezed by stagnant wage growth and inflation, are being cautious in their spending, Marks & Spencer stated.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November.
That will drive down asset prices when liquidity is being squeezed," said Guo.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November, with Jia admitted publicly that its expansion into smartphone, automobile, cloud and internet finance business had been a step too far.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November, with Jia admitting publicly that its expansion into smartphone, automobile, cloud and internet finance business had been a step too far.
The company has a plan to squeeze more cash from its properties, which includes its flagship store in Manhattan.
It is crucial to diversify export sources to counter the squeezed demand in the United States and Europe, said Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the economic policy committee of the China Association of Policy Science.
In Jiang's view, with the development of society, the living space of traditional tailor shops is being squeezed but the needs of consumers are increasingly personalized, which brings new opportunities for small shops like Ye's.
Softening demand still top impediment to healthier bottom-line performancesProfits of China's major industrial firms shrank at a slower pace in June thanks to supportive government measures to ease burdens on companies, though softening demand continued to squeeze margins.
Being the world's largest car producer and exporter, China has unavoidably squeezed other major car exporters in the global auto sector, such as South Korea and Japan.
Although China's prudent monetary policy space is squeezed in the short term, the country will still allow domestic factors to shape its policies and maintain relatively loose monetary operations, Lian said.
"Chinese products have a good reputation for their quality, and the fiercer competition in global markets will catalyze the transformation of Chinese enterprises to climb up into higher value-added sectors because those failing to adapt will be squeezed out from the markets," he said.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, explained that China's industrial profits shrank in April as COVID-19 severely disrupted the supply, industrial and logistics chains, and high raw material prices also squeezed margins.
When the global COVID-19 pandemic situation appeared to have eased, the production capacity of Southeast Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Thailand, continued to recover, but squeezed the export share of China's labor-intensive products.
"These factors have weakened consumption in these regions and squeezed our export volume," said Jin Xiaomin, chairman of Zhejiang Kingston Supply Chain Group Co Ltd, a Yiwu, Zhejiang province-based goods exporter.
Such moves, though they can help mitigate risks triggered by the shrinking balance sheet of Russia's financial system, will add to expectations that Russian and Western credit systems will mutually damage each other's creditworthiness, and squeeze confidence of foreign investors in Russia in the next few years.
Although first quarter export growth beat expectations, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to squeeze exporters and could pressure overall foreign trade performance in the first half of 2022, they said.
Wu Chaoming, deputy director of the Chasing International Economic Institute, said midstream and downstream enterprises have been squeezed by elevated factory inflation, with surging commodity prices clouding the outlook.
"The rises in prices of commodities like iron ore, coal and oil will also inflate enterprises' costs and squeeze their profitability.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Instead, livestreaming shopping today resembles Taobao during its early years, with cutthroat price competition and brands and retailers significantly reducing costs to squeeze out profits while boosting market share and brand recognition.
The readings combined to send the difference in PPI and CPI growth to a record high of 12 percentage points, an indication that the profits of midstream and downstream enterprises have been further squeezed, which limited their capability to invest, experts said.
High commodity prices have hit sustainability of earnings recoveryMore policy efforts are necessary to address the imbalance in the earnings recovery of Chinese industrial firms, as high commodity prices have further boosted upstream companies' profits but squeezed those of downstream ones, officials and experts said on Wednesday.
To prevent profits of downstream sectors getting squeezed due to eroding household income growth and the consumption recovery, China needs to further boost energy supplies and curb commodity price speculation, said Cai Zhibing, an associate professor of economics at the National Academy of Governance.
Although the Chinese authorities have taken measures recently to tame commodity prices, there are signs profit margins of manufacturing enterprises, especially smaller ones, are getting squeezed, said Heron Lim, an analyst with Moody's Analytics.
The profit earning of private, micro businesses is on a slower track of recovery, and the high price of commodities has put a squeeze on downstream businesses.
私营微型企业的利润增长正在缓慢复苏，而大宗商品的高价则对下游企业构成了压力。
Limited transmission from producer prices to consumer prices would mean some smaller companies will have to endure a difficult time as their profits may be squeezed; so, more supportive policies are needed to ensure their survival, they said.
While the rapid rise of prices of industrial goods is unlikely to trigger an overall inflation in China, it will put some smaller companies into a more difficult position as they have limited bargaining power and will see their profits squeezed, said Guan Qingyou, chief economist at the Rushi Financial Research Institute.
"The high raw material prices have squeezed the profit margin of mid－and downstream companies and weighed on their willingness to expand investment, making more supportive measures necessary," Wu said.
"Commodity prices continue to run at a high level, which squeezed the profitability of enterprises.
商品价格持续维持在高位，挤压了企业的利润空间。
Third, the containment strategy that the United States adopted by rebuilding an alliance of democracies and reshaping supply chains to challenge China is advancing more rapidly than we imagined and may further squeeze the Chinese economy, going forward.
"One potential risk is the rising commodity prices in the international market, which will lead to higher costs for companies and squeeze their profit margins," Yu said.
European Union regulators hit Google with a 4.34 billion euro ($5.14 billion) antitrust fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
With economic recovery improving overseas, the number of overseas orders has also declined, while the recent surge in commodity prices has squeezed their profits.
For example, it could prompt central banks to tighten liquidity that will cause a slump in asset prices, squeeze company profits, increase family burdens and threaten incipient global recovery.
例如，这可能会促使中央银行收紧流动性，从而导致资产价格下跌，挤压公司利润，增加家庭负担，并威胁到初步显现的全球复苏态势。
Li Qilin, chief economist at Shanghai-listed Hongta Securities, said rising raw material costs may squeeze the profit margins of downstream manufacturers, which may in turn weigh on employees' salaries and consumer spending.
The recovery of other emerging economies' supply capacity will also squeeze China's exports.
But after their success, they have been squeezed out by foreign governments.
This meant Sunvim had to slash prices to match its competitors', which squeezed its profit, said Xiao.
As a child, she donated her income to the orphanage by setting up a street vending stall to sell freshly squeezed juice.
Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, said that during regional power shortfalls when electricity demand exceeds available supply, a portion of electricity can be squeezed out from industrial usage, which currently accounts for 70 percent, to ensure residential supply, which accounts for less than 15 percent.
"My mind is stimulated the moment I squeeze the clutch.
The pool of available ships has been squeezed because trading companies had sealed long-term deals booking LNG tankers well ahead of time to handle the volume of natural gas deliveries.
As many countries face economic weakness and the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze spending, consumer-driven demand will likely soften, although there should be pockets of strength," she added.
"After global physical gold demand rebounded strongly across most downstream sectors in 2021, the outlook for jewelry and industrial applications is more tenuous into the second half as a slower economy and high inflation squeeze consumer spending," she said.
她说：“在2021年全球实物黄金需求在各个下游行业强劲复苏之后，由于经济放缓和高通胀挤压了消费者支出，对于珠宝和工业应用领域的展望在下半年变得更加不确定。”
According to chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the global COVID-19 situation is likely to squeeze smartphone shipments by 200 million units this year.
Yet persistently high-level coal prices on international markets have squeezed China's coal imports by 24.2 percent from a year ago to 51.81 million tons.
"The continued rise in iron ore and energy prices will put a squeeze on profits of downstream steel firms, which will depress demand for iron ore.
"Also, the longer production time squeezed our time of developing new products to cater to new preferences," said Qiu.
Peng Honghua, president of Huawei's 5G product line, said because games can use the cloud, developers can design more complex games without having to squeeze them onto home hardware.
华为5G产品线总裁彭洪华表示，由于游戏能够利用云技术，开发者在设计游戏时无需再考虑将其压缩到家用硬件上，因而可以创造出更为复杂的游戏。
Most of them are based in Geneva and the "Watch Valley" in the Jura Arc - and they all feel the squeeze cased by the COVID-19 pandemic.
他们中的大多数都位于日内瓦和Jura Arc的"钟表谷"，并且他们都感受到了COVID-19大流行带来的压力。
In addition to the container shortage, export related enterprises are also suffering from rising raw material costs, which squeeze manufacturers' profits.
除了集装箱短缺之外，出口相关企业还面临着原材料成本上升的问题，这进一步压缩了制造商的利润。
"On opening day, my friend and I arrived at the shopping mall at 9:40 am, 20 minutes earlier than its opening time, just to squeeze into the first batch of visitors to the store," said Chen.
“开业那天，我和朋友早上9点40分就到了购物中心，比开门时间早了20分钟，就是为了能挤进商店的第一批顾客中，”陈说。
The fluctuations in iron ore import prices at high levels often squeeze the profitability of domestic steel mills, he said.
他说，铁矿石进口价格在高位的波动经常挤压国内钢铁厂的利润空间。
"The market of China's wine industry has been seriously squeezed by the imported wines.
中国葡萄酒行业的市场受到进口葡萄酒的严重挤压。
But high iron ore costs squeezed steel mills' profitability and may continue to weigh on margins," said Zhu Yi, a senior analyst for metals and mining at Bloomberg Intelligence.
但是高企的铁矿石成本挤压了钢铁厂的盈利能力，并可能继续对利润率构成压力，"彭博情报金属和矿业高级分析师朱毅（Zhu Yi）表示。
With profit margins being squeezed by iron ore prices, many Chinese mills have been forced to change their steel products sales structure this year to higher-end products.
由于铁矿石价格对利润空间造成挤压，今年许多中国钢厂不得不调整其钢材产品销售结构，转向高端产品。
The event on April 10, co-organized by cross-border e-commerce site AliExpress, aimed to promote the city's small and medium-sized enterprises, whose export-oriented businesses have been severely squeezed by the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on key markets overseas.
Chinese residents have become accustomed to baking food and squeeze juice on their own during the epidemic.
The epidemic could also be the straw to break the back of the catering businesses, which have been squeezed hard by rising raw material costs and razor-thin profits throughout 2019.
"Besides, top companies may choose to give deep discounts to boost sales, which will squeeze the market space for small-and medium-sized companies," he added.
Facial masks, creams, lotions and lipsticks have squeezed out handsets, tablets and laptops at five markets along Huaqiang North Street and the transformation is by no means complete.
While the sector's profit margins were squeezed at the moment, profitability in the future will be increasingly reliant on refined operations of enterprises and the products, the CRIC said.
"Kern Zhang, head of new business at mobile analytics firm App Annie in China, agreed, saying successful emerging entertainment apps such as short videos could squeeze out gaming apps.
"The wholesalers squeeze down the price due to the bad global economic situation and our margin has dropped a lot.
The gas from underground storage facilities reached 9.3 billion cubic meters last year, compared to a record 7.4 billion cubic meters during the winter's severe supply squeeze in 2017 and an average of 4-6 billion cubic meters during the previous few winters.
Alexandre de Juniac, director general and CEO of the IATA, said that although 2019 will make the 10th consecutive year in which the aviation industry experiences profit growth, "margins are being squeezed by rising costs right across the board-including labor, fuel, and infrastructure.
国际航空运输协会（IATA）的总干事兼首席执行官亚历山大·德·朱尼亚克表示，尽管2019年将是航空业连续第十年实现利润增长，但“整个行业正面临利润空间被不断挤压的局面，成本压力来自于各个方面，包括劳动力、燃油和基础设施。”
"In 2019, overall costs are expected to grow by 7.4 percent, outpacing a 6.5 percent rise in revenues, IATA said, adding that net margins are consequently expected to be squeezed to 3.2 percent.
2019年，国际航空运输协会表示，整体成本预计将增长7.4%，超过收入6.5%的增长幅度，因此净利率预计将会被压缩至3.2%。
However, consultancy Wood Mackenzie also warned that higher crude prices and volatility would squeeze margins for Chinese refineries, especially the independent refiners, thanks to the new taxation system that raises their input costs.
With new large-scale private refiners set to further squeeze their margins and step up competition, insiders said a shift to the high-end market is the only way out.
Firms have also been further squeezed by a slow and steady decline in the price of lithium batteries.
He said the world's ship-breaking industry is not only under pressure from the aspects of ecosystem and occupational health but also facing the reality of not making profits, squeezed as it is by cheaper steel scrap prices and overcapacity in the steel production sector.
"He predicted that the room for profit will continue to be squeezed in 2019 by declining steel prices and the high cost of environmentally friendly ship-breaking methods, after China removed the subsidy rules for the demolition of ships at the end of 2017.
Not only will their market shares go up, but the profit contribution per drug will also increase," noted a report from Ping An Securities Co Ltd. "On the whole, the price drop resulting from the pilot procurement will squeeze the profits of midstream companies along the industrial chain.
"Zhang agreed, saying successful emerging short video apps could squeeze out livestreaming providers.
"There has been a lot of inherent inefficiency in the traditional distribution system and I think everyone is trying to squeeze that inefficiency out, because costs are increasing," said Fotinos.
However, certain auto suppliers have experienced a tough time as they are squeezed by upstream suppliers and downstream OEMs.
Some companies will end up being marginalized and perhaps be squeezed out of the picture.
But Chief Executive Tim Hayden said the recent squeeze has spurred the company to spend more time sending technicians out to upgrade tools that are installed on factory floors in order to squeeze more chips out of them.
As for the view that the capital market is to squeeze out the bubble in the NEV market, some agencies have reassured there is little need for worry, saying it is just short-term fluctuations.