Tag: Vocabulary

速食婚姻(sù shí hūn yīn)
instant marriage
The term refers to a very quick marriage between two people who only started their relationship a short time ago. This term comes from instant noodles, which are fast to make to satisfy one’s hunger but don’t contain much nutrition.

向日葵族(xiàng rì kuí zú)
sunflower clan
The term is used to refer to people who, just like a sunflower, always look on the bright side of life and are resilient to pressure as they easily forget about unhappiness. They are different to the “strawberry clan,” people who don’t handle pressure or setbacks well even though they look good.

男人月经期(nán rén yuè jīng qī)
manstruation
It is said that men experience psychological menstruation, which can be seen by a periodic bad temper, low mood and lack of interest in romance and sex.

微博保姆(wēi bó bǎo mǔ)
microblog operations administrator  
It is a nickname for someone who maintains a company’s microblog. The person tries to create topics to attract more followers while also explaining negative comments about the firm. The Chinese term literally translates as microblog housemaid.

笃定(dǔ  dìng)

媒体依赖症(méi tǐ yī lài zhèng)
media-addiction syndrome
If you feel edgy, fidgety, distressed or lonely when left without access to your cellphone, Internet, TV and radio, then you are said to be suffering from the syndrome.

宅内族(zhái nèi zú) Indoors-keepers Home geeks with positive attitudes. They advocate a thrifty, do-it-yourself lifestyle due to the economic downturn

火锅婚姻(huǒ guō hūn yīn) hotpot marriage Chinese netizens have compared marriage to the hotpot, wher the romantic love before marriage

恐归族 （kǒng guī zú）
home-going phobia clan
The term refers to people who plan to return home for the annual family reunio during the Spring Festival but are put off by the high travel costs and crowded transportation. Most of these people are migrant workers, who have to stay in the area wher they work to spend the festival holidays as train tickets are sold out and they can’t afford planes.

豆腐渣婚姻(dòu fu zhā hūn yīn)
jerry-built marriage
Some people have described the marriage of a rising number of young couples born in the 1980s as a building constructed with poor materials: hastily made and readily collapsible, on the grounds that these young couples meet by speed dating, get a hurried marriage and then break up shortly after.