排球: volleyball...
求证: to seek proof, to seek confirmation...
生命: life (as the characteristic of living beings), living being, creature...
兼顾: to attend simultaneously to two or more things, to balance (career and family, family and education etc)...
呵: expel breath, my goodness...
坚固: firm, firmly, hard, stable...
不亚于: no less than, not inferior to...
