乓
pāng
Pinyin
Definition
乓
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- (onom.) bang
Character Decomposition
Sample Sentences
我不喜欢打乒乓球。
I don't like to play ping pong.
我会跟朋友去公园打乒乓球,要不要去啊?
I am going to the park to play Ping-Pong with my friends. Do you want to go with us?
那么,羽毛球和乒乓球呢?
Then what about badminton and ping pong?
我不都喜欢。我喜欢打羽毛球,不喜欢打乒乓球。
I don't like both. I like playing badminton, but I don't like playing ping pong.
亏你还是个中国人,连乒乓球都不会打。
It's a good thing that you're Chinese. You can't even play ping pong.
观众朋友们,乒乓球男子单打决赛开始了。
Spectators, friends: The finals in the ping pong men’s singles have begun.
也对。不过我还是最喜欢看中国乒乓队比赛,心里特别有底。不像看中国男足,随时会发心脏病。
That's true, but I still love to watch the national team compete, as I know they will win. It's not like men's soccer, which can give you a heart attack.
但是如果中国一直统治乒坛,那乒乓球的国际市场就会越来越小。到时候变成只有中国人参与,就没有意义了。
But if China continues to dominate ping pong, then the international market for ping pong will dwindle. It will then turn into a sport played only by Chinese, and then become meaningless.
所以中国人怎么能不热爱乒乓?不过我们乒乓太好也有问题,别的国家都不肯跟我们比了。
So how could the Chinese people not be passionate about ping pong? But there is a downside to us being so good at ping pong. Other countries don't want to compete with us.
历史真有意思,两个超级大国几十年没有接触,却因为一个小乒乓球走到一起。
History is so interesting, two major superpowers for several years had no contact, however but due to the small game of ping pong, they were able to come together.