The powerful Chinese table tennis national team played down the home advantage and expects the toughest ever Olympic Games.
It\'s the first time that table tennis introduces team events in the Olympic history and China have fielded an unprecedented squad including both the men\'s and women\'s world 1-2 in the rankings.
Wang Hao who claimed the first ever world champion in his career last year in the men\'s World Cup leads the men\'s team also including three-time world champion Wang Liqin and quartet World Cup holder Ma Lin the current second-ranked man in the world.
In the women\'s part defending champion and world No. 1 Zhang Yining will cooperate with teenage reigning world champion Guo Yue and veteran Wang Nan with 18 world titles in hands.
Glass-bottomed bridge, cancer risk for HRT and 120-year-old man 世界最长玻璃桥开放，荷尔蒙替代疗法增患癌风险，印度教120岁僧人
Barefaced 厚颜无耻的
Alligator takes boy and Tate Modern extension 鳄鱼拖走小男孩，泰特现代美术馆扩建完工
One good turn deserves another 以德报德，礼尚往来
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”
It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响
Until I'm blue in the face 任凭你磨破嘴皮
Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史，400岁格陵兰鲨鱼
Going forward 从今往后
To fall at the first hurdle 跌倒在第一关
IOC on Russian doping and hot June 奥委会就涉俄兴奋剂事件报告进展，六月高温破纪录
Off the hook 脱身
Indian state introduces 'fat tax' 印度一省拟征收“脂肪税”
White / blue-collar worker 白领，蓝领
Old-school 老一套，老派
A bitter pill to swallow 不得不吞的苦药
Burn a hole in your pocket 有钱不花难受
To make a monkey out of me 捉弄我
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
The last/final straw 忍无可忍，使人最终崩溃的一击
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
You're pulling my leg! 你在愚弄我！
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
Russian athletes and friendly robots 俄罗斯运动员服用兴奋剂，“合作机器人”
It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生
Drama queen 小题大做的人
Cyborg beetle and the teenage brain 半机械甲虫，青少年脑部发育
Earth-like planet, Pink cockatoo dies at 83 类地行星，83岁风头鹦鹉逝世
In good nick 品质好、没有损坏