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Cooking time: 40 minutes in a pressure cooker; 2 hours in an ordinary pot.
时间：高压锅40分钟；普通锅2小时。口水要出来了有木有！
Kyoto, they point out, was saved from collapse at the eleventh hour, while the Bali talks in 2007 were rescued when US opposition wilted in the pressure cooker of the conference chamber.
他们指出，京都在最后一刻才免于崩溃，2007年巴厘岛态度强硬的美国最终在会议大厅的“高压锅”里妥协。
In the pressure cooker of running a small business, spouses often discover differences they didn't know they had.
在经营小企业的压力之下，共同创业的夫妻经常会发现以前不知道的彼此之间的差异。

Once it broke those levels, we will just call it almost like a pressure cooker.
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(PAN) a cooking pan with a tightly fitting lid that allows food to cook quickly in steam under pressure
(SITUATION) a situation in which people are under a lot of pressure

A pressure cooker is a large metal container with a lid that fits tightly, in which you can cook food quickly using steam at high pressure.