The water in the cup was
tepid, just right for drinking after a workout.
杯子里的水有点温热，正好适合锻炼后饮用。
She took a sip of the
tepid coffee and grimaced.
她尝了一口温吞吞的咖啡，皱了皱眉。
The
tepid weather didn't deter the children from playing outside.
温和的天气并没有阻止孩子们去户外玩耍。
The
tepid response to his proposal indicated lack of enthusiasm among the group.
他的提议得到的冷淡回应表明小组成员对此并不热心。
The
tepid soup barely warmed her on this chilly winter night.
在这个寒冷的冬夜，那碗微温的汤几乎无法给她带来温暖。
His
tepid welcome made me feel like an outsider.
他冷淡的接待让我觉得自己是个局外人。
The
tepid debate at the meeting showed a lack of passion among the participants.
会议上平淡无奇的讨论显示出参与者们的激情不足。
After a long journey, the traveler welcomed the
tepid shower as a sign of comfort.
经过长途旅行后，旅行者欣然接受了微温的淋浴，感觉这是种安慰。
Her
tepid smile suggested that she wasn't particularly excited about the news.
她敷衍的微笑表明她对这个消息并不特别兴奋。
The
tepid applause after his performance left him feeling unfulfilled.
表演结束后，他收到的稀疏掌声让他感到不满足。
Despite the tepid growth reported by China's major internet companies, online discounter PDD Holdings, the parent company of e-commerce platform Pinduoduo, beat third-quarter revenue forecasts as it continued to capture more value-conscious Chinese consumers.
尽管中国主要互联网公司报告的增长不温不火，但电子商务平台拼多多的母公司在线折扣店PDD Holdings第三季度的收入超过了预期，因为它继续吸引更多注重价值的中国消费者。
Nevertheless, investors showed tepid interest in the Chinese sports company in its trading debut.
It used to have nearly 30 outlets in the country, but only six survived in 2017 due to tepid sales.
At the same forum, Xu Gao, chief economist at BOC International, said that tepid demand remains the biggest challenge for the Chinese economy amid the lingering property downturn, suggesting that the central government should take on more debt to fund infrastructure investment and shore up demand.
As global growth is projected to remain tepid at 2.4 percent next year, the world's second-largest economy is expected to expand by 4.5 percent in 2024, according to the latest China Economic Update, released by the World Bank on Thursday.
"There remains the likelihood of a protracted recovery in the real estate sector and persistently tepid external demand.
However, China's economic outlook is clouded by continued weakness in the real estate sector and tepid global demand in the short term, as well as structural constraints to growth, including high debt levels and population aging.
"Faster growth is needed to anchor the expectations of businesses and households," Li said, attributing their currently subdued sentiment to slower economic growth in recent years, which resulted in a tepid increase in corporate earnings and household incomes.
"Faster growth is needed to anchor the expectations of businesses and households," Li said, attributing the current subdued sentiment among them mainly to slower economic growth in recent years, which resulted in a tepid increase in corporate earnings and household income.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the decline in the manufacturing PMI shows recovery in domestic demand is still tepid, affected by seasonal factors as well as the housing market slump.
Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said exports remain an important driver of the Chinese economy, and tepid exports in recent months have led to reduced investment opportunities for foreign-trade enterprises, affecting domestic job creation and consumption.
"Gauged by short-term indicators, the recovery of China's domestic demand in recent months slowed down from the first quarter as insufficient market demand and tepid endogenous impetus remained a drag on growth.
Gauged by short-term indicators, the recovery of China's domestic demand in recent months slowed down from the first quarter as insufficient market demand and tepid endogenous impetus remained a drag on growth.
Analysts said the drop indicates that the world's second-largest economy has yet to gain a solid footing amid pressure from insufficient demand and tepid confidence, saying more focus should be placed on boosting domestic demand and increasing support for market entities.
However, manufacturing sector activity is still relatively sluggish, which we believe is related to the still tepid demand and other aspects, including export weakness.
"Zhu Yi, a senior analyst with metals and mining at Bloomberg Intelligence, a market monitor, echoed his sentiments, saying China's infrastructure push and reopening may be on course to bolster demand, compensating for tepid growth elsewhere.
Despite facing pressures and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, weakening external demand and a tepid property market, they said China's economy will likely return to a reasonable growth track next year, predicting a steady rebound in business activity as well as a gradual recovery in domestic demand.
Zhao said the decline is a result of tepid performance in consumer services fields including retailing, aviation, transportation, hospitality and catering, with the subindex for business activities in these segments slipping into contraction territory.
Since the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway－the core project of Turkey's "Middle Corridor Initiative"－was officially put into operation on Oct 30, 2017, its actual utilization rate has been tepid and unsatisfactory.
Why is the "Middle Corridor "route so tepid with such an advantageous geographical location?
In Shenzhen, regardless of holiday promotions and discounts offered by developers, the local home market stayed largely tepid, Chen said.
However, despite causing some downward pressure, the tepid property sector will not pose a systemic risk to financial markets or the overall economy, experts argued.
The tepid market sentiment in July may have to do with the summer season, which is a traditional slow season for housing transactions, Zhang said.
Experts: Supportive policies, stronger sentiment to help realty get back on steady track in Q4A number of Chinese cities saw pre-owned home transactions recover during the weeklong National Day holiday, while urban new-home sales remained tepid.
Due to the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks, weak market expectations and tepid demand, Chinese real estate developers' sales revenues were more than halved in the first six months.
Ski gear sales here have been tepid this season.
The market is forecast to see a price correction this year when sellers face pressure to sell off properties in the tepid market, the Savills report stated.
The country's economy is expected to expand by 4.5 percent in 2024, even as global growth is projected to remain tepid at 2.4 percent, according to the World Bank.
"China's new energy vehicle market has kept growing robustly, while the country's auto market as a whole has been tepid.
Both production and sales in new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China soared in May despite a cut in government subsidies, while the growth of the overall auto market remained tepid, industry data showed.
The country currently faces growing global geopolitical uncertainties and a tepid economic recovery, which are intertwined with government debt issues and a sluggish property market after three years of the pandemic.
Citing a sluggish external demand and supply challenges due to shutting down of many small businesses and export enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jiang said that tepid exports will narrow trade surplus this year.
Finance minister assures stability despite deficit, incipient recoveryAlthough China's fiscal revenue this year may increase on the back of the ongoing economic recovery, it is likely to be tepid; yet, fiscal expenditure will have the necessary intensity, Finance Minister Liu Kun said on Thursday.
The ADB had revised down this year's GDP growth forecast for China to 3.3 percent from its projection of 5 percent made in April, amid restrictions related to the pandemic and tepid consumer demand.
First, the LPR cut broadened room for more mortgage interest rate cuts, allowing homebuyers to save money, which will ultimately boost tepid homebuying demand.
- Chinese stocks closed lower on Wednesday partly due to data showing tepid growth in bank lending, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.63 percent at 3,319.27 points.
China's A-share market tumbled on its first trading day of 2019 amid tepid market sentiment and weaker manufacturing data.
The ongoing trade friction between the US and China is getting much of the blame for the stock market's recent tepid performance.
"More importantly, the tepid response has sounded alarm bells to investors, who had blindly chased after the much-hyped unicorns ($1 billion startups) without the slightest idea about their fundamentals.
The tepid response may follow the twists and turns of the benchmark Hang Seng Index, which has been haunted by the specter of the United States Federal Reserve interest rate hike and China-US trade dispute this year, said Chen.
The tepid performance has weighed on the weak fundamentals of those loss-making unicorns, he added.
Hong Hao, chief strategist at BOCOM International, expects the A-share market to be tepid in 2018 with bouts of brief volatility due to changes in liquidity conditions.
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