What those early craftsmen had found by trial and error was that under pressure a pagoda's loose stack of floors could be made to slither to and fro independent of one another.

"那些早期的工匠通过反复试验发现：在压力作用下，宝塔松散堆叠的楼层可以彼此独立地来回滑动。

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Self-management, hard -working, independent and able to work under pressure.

自主管理，勤奋，独挡一面并且能够承受工作压力。

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Self-management, hard-working, independent and able to deal with pressure.

自主管理，勤奋，独挡一面并且能够承受工作压力。

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Under this pressure, the Green-Independent group agreed to back down.

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If mortgage losses go beyond already gloomy predictions, "they could succumb to more capital pressure, and their independent-company days may be numbered, " says David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights.

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All that said, and following pressure from the European Commission, the centre-right government will commission two independent assessments of banks' balance sheets, to verify whether its rehabilitation plan is realistic.

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