At the dawn of the 20th century the members of the anti-Christian Boxer Uprising, who believed their faith made them impervious to bullets, laid siege to the foreign legation embassy quarter in Beijing and also nearly toppled the empire. 20世纪初期,反基督教的义和团成员围攻北京的外国使馆区,同样差点推翻了清帝国。义和团成员相信他们的信仰可以让自己刀枪不入。
It is not a place for foreign companies to improve next quarter's earnings. 中国这个地方不能使外国公司马上提高下一季度的收入。
Given that this increase was higher than the trade surplus and foreign direct investment during the quarter, economists said it was a sign that China was again receiving heavy inflows of speculative capital. 鉴于这一增量高于第三季度贸易盈余和外国直接投资之和,经济学家们表示,这一迹象表明,大量投机资金正再度流入中国。
Foreign trade for the first quarter fell 24.9 per cent year-on-year, but overall gross domestic product grew by 6.1 per cent during the same period. 今年一季度,中国对外贸易额同比下降24.9%,而同期内国内生产总值(gdp)增长6.1%。
The comments came as the search company reported numbers that showed it had withstood the broader advertising downturn and unfavourable foreign exchange movements during the second quarter of the year. 施密特发表此番言论之际,这家搜索公司发布的数据显示,今年第二季度,该公司经受住了更广泛的广告业低迷和不利汇率波动的影响。