日期：2011-09-21 Drama queen refers to people (mostly girls - but boys play their part) who turn something unimportant into a major deal, or who blow things way out of proportion whenever the chance is given because they either: a) want to seek attention; b) have so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-21 Silver ceiling is a set of attitudes and prejudices that prevent older employees from rising to positions of power or responsibility in a workplace. 银色屋顶（silver ceiling）指工作单位中存在的阻止上年纪的员工升职或者承担更多工作责任的那种歧视的态度... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 An open-collar worker refers to a person who does jobs at home that once required an office setting. Open-collar worker（字面意思为开领工人）指把家当办公室，在家里上班的人，即自由职业者。 Home-based entrepreneurship is attracting growing numbers of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 Dual-core family refers to a family where both husband and wife are the only child or the single core of their own families before they got married. The new family, of course, has two cores as neither of the couple knows how to behave not as a core... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 The term acquaintance blind date literally means exchanging grass, with grass referring to young men. Such events are usually initiated by leftover women single women who have passed the best age for getting married. These women may bring single mal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 Social terrorism means when someone you know comes to visit unexpectedly and inconveniently, often staying for a long time, and you can't tell them to leave without being rude. Social terrorism（译为不速之客或社交炸弹）指有熟人在你不太方便的时候突然... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a cl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-23 A recent online poll indicated 59.5 percent netizens think negative of the country's neo-wealthy who shoot to fame on the annual rich lists, the China Youth Daily reported. 据《中国青年报》报道，一项最近的网络调查显示，对于登上年度富豪榜一举成名新富... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 Leisure quotient （LQ）is an index used to describe the ability to relax and play, which psychologists say is important to contentment and future achievement. A high LQ usually means that the person has a good command on his life, knows how to explo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-10 Hanger appeal refers to the attractiveness of a garment when viewed on a hanger (rather than being worn). A garment has hanger appeal if it looks good on the rack and would entice someone to look more closely, and perhaps try it on and buy it. 衣架... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Desk rage refers to the peak of office employee stress levels which ultimately starts with the screaming of vulgar language within the workplace. It can often times lead to assaulting fellow employees, abusing office equipment and/or stealing of com... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Anybody with an Internet connection and a computer can now become a cewebrity . A cewebrity is somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the Internet, an Internet personality who crosses over to the mainstream. A web c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 FriendTM refers to the situation when a friend low on cash (the paper kind) pays the group's bill on his/her debit card in order to get the cash from their friends--therefore avoiding both the ATM surcharge and the inconvenience of finding one. 朋友... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Manstration refers to a monthly hormonal cycle for men. Some men get cranky and bitchy for no reason regularly, just like what women go through in their monthlies (known as menstruation). This is where the term manstration comes from. Manstration（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Airplane mode (or flight mode) means someone cuts themselves off from the world by not logging on to social networking sites or checking their cell phones. This usually occurs after a breakup or a rough work week. 飞行模式指某人不上社交网站，也不开... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 Relating to contemporary children and young people, nature-deficit disorder refers to the increasing tendency to spend very little time outdoors in the open countryside. The contention is that today's kids do not play and interact with nature in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 The light passage from standing flowers, and the frequently colorful wings of butterfly has inspired the term social butterfly . 蝴蝶扑闪着色彩斑斓的翅膀轻盈飞舞于花丛中，这样的美景应该是交际花（social butterfly）这个说法灵感的来源。 It appears that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Chat gravity refers to the degree of familiarity with another person, which, if you chance to encounter them on the street, will determine if you merely greet them in passing or stop to talk. 聊天重力指你跟另一个人的熟悉程度决定了你们在街头偶遇的时... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK), or l'art du dplacement (the art of movement) is where participants jump, vault, and climb over obstacles in a fluid manner. It is a non-competitive way to move fluidly despite ones environment. It was developed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 A forest bathing trip is a short, leisurely visit to a forest and is regarded as being similar to natural aromatherapy. Studies show that forest bathing can strengthen the immune system. 森林浴就是到森林里放松地走一走，其效果被认为与自然芳香疗法类似... 阅读全文>>