日期：2011-07-10 Life password is the password that you use for every website, email account, social networking website, micro-blog, and everything. Having a 'life password' is not a good idea, but everyone does it. 生活密码指你登陆任何网站、电子邮件、社交网站、微博... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Rebound job is a job you take knowing that it isn't long term, often due to an emergency situation where you know youre losing your current job. It provides a paycheck while you take your time looking for a better job. 跳板工作指你在接受时就知道不会... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-10 Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life , or NETTEL, refers to the rising pool of households headed by two high-income-earning, full-time-working parents with dependent children. NETTEL（Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life，无暇享受生活，简称奈特尔）指夫妻为高收入... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 Vacation amnesia refers to this situation: when you come back to school or work from your vacation, you can't remember what you did before the vacation. Things you cant remember may include: what project you were working on, any paper needed to be f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 Snail mail refers to a letter or package physically delivered by a postal service, suggesting that the service is as slow as a snail. People would like to use this term especially when the object mailed could have been sent electronically via e-mail... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 When you interface with any kind of computer that requires manual input (whether by keyboard, or a touch screen) there is the chance for making a mistake. Such mistakes are playfully called Fat Finger Disease . 我们在操作需要手工输入的电脑（不管是键... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 The term sticker shock is widely used in the United States to refer to an exclamation of surprise when seeing the price tag of a bunch of items and realizing the damage is much greater than originally expected. This may cause a person to have second... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Nonversation means a completely worthless conversation, wherein nothing is illuminated, explained or otherwise elaborated upon, typically occurs at parties, bars or other events where meaningful conversation is nearly impossible. Nonversation（无聊... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Cellular faux refers to a social phenomenon wherein which a person acts as though he is on his cell phone in order to shield himself from uncomfortable situations. 手机掩护法（cellular faux）指有人为了避免使自己陷入尴尬境地而假装在打电话的情形。 For... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Know that while receiving cash to drive your own car seems crazy, it is an excellent way to earn extra money for your gas tank or an extra income if you need it. Huge companies will actually pay ordinary people like you to put some advertising on yo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Microwave minute describes the situation when time slows down while waiting for your food to heat in the microwave. Known side effects are increased hunger, slowing of all the clocks in your house and walking around aimlessly trying to kill time. 微... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-14 Phone neck refers to neck pain caused by holding a telephone between one's shoulder and ear for extended periods. It is one of the modern white-collar ailments. 电话脖（phone neck）指把电话夹在肩膀和耳朵之间很长时间引起的颈部疼痛，是现代白领病的一种... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-24 Showmance means the romance actors engage in for the run of a show. Once the run is over so is the romance. 荧幕恋情（showmance）是演员在戏剧表演中上演的恋情。表演结束时，恋情也随之终结。 The term originated in the theater and moved to movies and sc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-24 Roommate chicken refers to the condition where a group of people sharing a living space each avoid doing a household chore for an extended period because each believes it's someone else's responsibility. The idea is that eventually the situation wil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-24 Women can munch their way into a bigger dress size in weeks by auto-eating the calorie equivalent of a Big Mac a day.... 如果每天机械地吃进去相当于一个巨无霸汉堡那么多的热量，女人们的身材可以在几周内就加大一号。 Nutritionist Mary Strugar coined the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-19 Latchkey kid or latchkey child refers to a child who returns from school to an empty home because his or her parent or parents are away at work, or a child who is often left at home with little or no parental supervision. 挂钥匙儿童指因为父母出去工... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-19 Hopscotch is a children's game in which players toss a small object into the numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object. 跳房子是一种儿童游戏，玩家将一个小物件投掷... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-01 An agreement among the country's three main mobile network operators last June stipulates that if the number of mass texting from a phone number reaches 200 within an hour or 1,000 within a day, the phone's message service will be suspended for a we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-01 Firecracker sales should officially start on Sunday inside the Fifth Ring Road, while sales outside the perimeter began yesterday. 五环路内烟花爆竹销售将于本周日正式开始，而五环路外的销售昨天已经开始。 在上面的报道中，firecracker sales即烟花爆竹销售... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-01 China has decided to start public hospital reform with pilot programs in selected cities or districts in each province, autonomous region and municipality, according to a cabinet guideline passed Wednesday. 国务院本周三出台的指导意见提出，我国已决定... 阅读全文>>