"Is this here table for my mate Bill?" he asked with a kind of leer.

“这张餐桌是我同伴比尔的吗？”他问道，不怀好意地眨了眨眼睛。

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Forget the gentle-paced table tennis played out in a mate's garage or down the youth club, the first to 21 points quick to gloat about his or her superior talent.

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Another early ad the next year for the much more mainstream Apple II pictured a woman preparing a meal, gazing adoringly at her mate working on the Apple computer on the kitchen table.

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Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.

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