掃盲帖
layman post
It refers to online chat room or forum articles that cater to the laymen by using rudimentary words and expressions so they can understand without difficulty.
御姐
mature and domineering woman
It refers to women 22 to 35 years old who look mature and act domineering. The expression is believed to have been coined from the Japanese game Chanbara Beauty.
老頑童
old baby
The expression is used in an appreciative way to refer to seniors who are young at heart and often act in a childish way either because they want to amuse others or because they take it as natural.
食游
food-and-fun tour
While traveling in one's own car is now affordable for more and more Chinese, especially the young, such tours are usually not complete without trying out local delicacies.
學(xué)區(qū)房
elite school property
As education authorities require all public schools to enrol only from neighboring communities, many parents will pay a higher price for an apartment in the vicinity of an elite school to ensure their child receives a better education. Such neighborhoods are called 學(xué)區(qū)(xue2 qu1).
欺實(shí)馬
A far-fetched excuse
The term literally means a "dishonest horse" and is pronounced like the English phrase for 70 kilometers per hour. A young man who drove above the speed limit killed a pedestrian in Hangzhou in May, but police initially insisted the car was only going 70 kilometers per hour. However, video camera footage showed the driver was traveling faster.
僵尸電腦
zombie computer
The term refers to computers linked to the Internet and controlled by a hacker, computer virus, or trojan horse. Such computers will be used to conduct a distributed denial-of-service attack or send junk e-mails under the order of hackers. As the computers are acting without their user's knowledge, they are referred to as zombies.
祈福筆
lucky pen
It refers to pens that are claimed to be blessed by Confucius. Business crooks hawk these pens to high school students taking the national college entrance examinations by saying such pens bring good luck.
流感派對(duì)
swine flu party
Some Americans plan to throw a party to deliberately expose others to the H1N1 flu virus in order to acquire some immunity to the disease. US health officials warned that such behavior had no scientific grounds and could spread the flu.
layman post
It refers to online chat room or forum articles that cater to the laymen by using rudimentary words and expressions so they can understand without difficulty.
御姐
mature and domineering woman
It refers to women 22 to 35 years old who look mature and act domineering. The expression is believed to have been coined from the Japanese game Chanbara Beauty.
老頑童
old baby
The expression is used in an appreciative way to refer to seniors who are young at heart and often act in a childish way either because they want to amuse others or because they take it as natural.
食游
food-and-fun tour
While traveling in one's own car is now affordable for more and more Chinese, especially the young, such tours are usually not complete without trying out local delicacies.
學(xué)區(qū)房
elite school property
As education authorities require all public schools to enrol only from neighboring communities, many parents will pay a higher price for an apartment in the vicinity of an elite school to ensure their child receives a better education. Such neighborhoods are called 學(xué)區(qū)(xue2 qu1).
欺實(shí)馬
A far-fetched excuse
The term literally means a "dishonest horse" and is pronounced like the English phrase for 70 kilometers per hour. A young man who drove above the speed limit killed a pedestrian in Hangzhou in May, but police initially insisted the car was only going 70 kilometers per hour. However, video camera footage showed the driver was traveling faster.
僵尸電腦
zombie computer
The term refers to computers linked to the Internet and controlled by a hacker, computer virus, or trojan horse. Such computers will be used to conduct a distributed denial-of-service attack or send junk e-mails under the order of hackers. As the computers are acting without their user's knowledge, they are referred to as zombies.
祈福筆
lucky pen
It refers to pens that are claimed to be blessed by Confucius. Business crooks hawk these pens to high school students taking the national college entrance examinations by saying such pens bring good luck.
流感派對(duì)
swine flu party
Some Americans plan to throw a party to deliberately expose others to the H1N1 flu virus in order to acquire some immunity to the disease. US health officials warned that such behavior had no scientific grounds and could spread the flu.