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How Do You Say PRESSURE in Chinese...?
The character for pressure in Chinese is 壓力 . (That's YA LI in pinyin). Think the Chinese hoop team is feeling any these days? This from 7 foot forward Yi Jianlian's blog (Yi played for the Milwaukee Bucks this past year and was recently traded to the New Jersey Nets):
This morning Hu Jintao came to watch our practice. Even the top leader cares so much about our practice, so you can see how much attention the Chinese people are paying to us. He asked us about our physical condition. Hope we can do our best in the Olympics. Now we just have to prepare.
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