July 4th, 2010 
ghostlei
1. 山寨 copycatting
“山寨”是依靠抄袭、模仿、恶搞等手段发展壮大起来，反权威、反主流且带有狂欢性、解构性、反智性以及后现代表征的亚文化的大众文化现象。
This Chinese term literally refers to the mountain strongholdsof bandits. First borrowed to describe rip-off products, it has evolvedto refer also to homemade products, such as video parodies of movies。
2. 囧 be sunk/sunken
网义：郁闷、悲伤、无奈、无语等等，示意很好很强大，指处境困迫，喻尴尬，为难。
This is an ancient Chinese character, pronounced jiong. Itmeans “light shining through a window”. Young Chinese use it to expressembarrassment, or a bad mood. Look at the character. Doesn’t it looklike a disappointed face?
3. 很黄很暴力 very pornographic, very violent
网络流行语，语出2007年12月27日CCTV新闻联播一则关于净化网络视听的新闻里，一个名叫张殊凡的小学生接受央视记者采访时说道：“上次我上网查资料，突然弹出来一个网页，很黄很暴力，我赶紧把它给关了。”
During a CCTV interview about a new Internet censorshipregulation, a girl said that an uncensored Web page once popped up onher computer. She called it “very pornographic, very violent”. Somebelieve the girl was told to say it by CCTV, so it is now used to mockthe way the network covers news。
4. 槑 nuts
网络热词，音同“梅”，字由二呆组成，故成为形容人比呆还呆的意思。
Pronounced méi, the word is a variant of the word for “梅”. Butit also looks like a double version of the character 呆 (dai)， whichmeans stupid. So netizens have borrowed it to mean “very silly or verystupid”。
5. 打酱油 get some soy sauce
来源于对一位广州市民的采访，当记者问到他关于一则报道的看法时，他说：关我什么事情？我是来打酱油的。
此网络潮语表明：我路过，我不关心的意思
When a person in Guangzhou was asked to give his opinion ofthe sex scandal involving Hong Kong star Edison Chen (Chen Guanxi)， theman answered, “It is none of my business. I am just out to get some soysauce.” People have since begun using the words to mean “it’s none ofmy business”。
6. 泡良族 pick-up artists
所谓泡良族，便是指那些将良家妇女做为猎艳对象，一旦到手，便立刻转身走人、象泡沫一样消失在空气中的那类男人
This expression refers to men who seduce married women。
7. 凤凰男 Phoenix man
所谓“凤凰男”，就是指集全家之力于一身，发愤读书十余年，终于成为“山窝里飞出的金凤凰”，从而为一个家族蜕变带来希望的男性。他们进城市后，娶了孔雀女(城市女孩的代名词)，
This expression refers to a man who grew up poor and in thecountryside, but later moved to a big city and married a city girl. Dueto the couple’s different backgrounds and habits, they often encounterproblems。
8. 做人不能太 CNN don’t be too CNN
西藏拉萨发生了严重的打、砸、抢、烧暴力事件，一些外国媒体在对这一事件进行报道时，出现了大量失实的报道。此句暗指某些媒体失实报道的举动。
It emerged in response to foreign media’s coverage of Tibet.Many Chinese thought it was biased. It gained more popularity after CNNcommentator Jack Cafferty’s rude talk of China。
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