Tag: chinese language vocabulary

庞氏骗局(páng shì piàn jú)
Ponzi schemeA Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors.

公铁行(gōng tiě xíng)
BMWThe Chinese is a back translation from the English BMW, which stands for bus, metro and walk. BMW has become a major commuting mode for more people in large Chinese cities such as Shanghai. It was coined by Chinese netizens inspired by the namesake luxury car brand partly as a way to promote an environmental-friendly lifestyle.

孕傻(yùn shǎ)pregnancy stupidityIt is believed that women during pregnancy will suffer deterioration of cognition capability and memory because of hormone changes. However, it does return after birth.

隐性涨价(yǐn xìng zhǎng jià)hidden price hikeMany producers of daily necessities have shrunk the contents of their products while keeping the same retail prices. The price hike is virtually hidden to casual shoppers.

微博控(wēi bó kòng)twuiltBorrowed from the English buzzword, a portmanteau of twitter and guilt, describing the guilty feeling you have when you haven’t posted a twitter comment online recently.

总队长(zǒng duì zhāng) captain pioneer  A photo of 13-year-old schoolboy Huang Yibo, better-known as the deputy director of the all-Wuhan

暴力行善(bào lì xíng shàn)
violent charitable act
Last month animal lovers stopped a truckfull of dogs destined for dinner tables and forced the owner to sell the canines to them on a Beijing highway. Though the aim was charitable and laudable, some people said animal lovers had no right to hijack vehicles.