Pleasanty Surprise

There was an amusing article in The New York Times on the efforts to spiff up Beijing for next year's Summer Olympics. They still have a way to go on expectorating:

Public spitting is a frequent practice in Beijing and even more common elsewhere in China. (The sinus-clearing, phlegmy pre-spit hawking sound is so common that one foreigner wryly dubbed it “the national anthem of China.”)

And of course those tricky translations: