新词新译：叉腰肌/潜水/海泡/海鸥/海根/金牌学历/云计算/返券黄牛

叉腰肌
tangential excuse
The term means literally iliopsoas — the great flexor muscle of the hip joint. It has become one of the hottest buzzwords in China after Xie Yalong, China’s senior soccer official, recently used it to criticize the women’s national soccer team, blaming their failure at the Olympic Games on their weak iliopsoas muscles. Most Netizens believe it’s an extremely tangential excuse cited by Xie to avoid the blame.

潜水
lurking
This popular expression in the online world refers to the fact that some visitors only read remarks posted by others in the chat room but never participate in the talk.

海泡
overseas-lingering grads
Some Chinese students stay much longer than necessary in a foreign country after finishing their study because they lack confidence to find a good job in their home country. The expression plays on the Chinese word 泡, which can mean either bubble, froth or, as a verb, to linger.

海鸥
globe-trotting businesspeople
Seagull, as this Chinese term means literally, describes some Chinese people who have an overseas education background and frequently take business trips to foreign countries. They are likened to seagulls flying over the sea all the time.

海根
back-to-the-root Chinese
Many Chinese become well established in a foreign country after finishing their study, but they are more than ready to return to China to spend the rest of their life. As the old Chinese saying goes, “falling leaves will return to the roots.”

金牌学历
gold-medal education
This term doesn’t mean an education that is worthy of a “gold medal.” It refers to the free education offered by some universities to attract sport stars who have won gold medals.

云计算
cloud computing
It is a distributed computing technology, an improvement on Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing and Grid Computing as well as commercial realization of scientific computing concepts. Many famous IT companies such as IBM, Yahoo and Google promote services and products through this technology.

返券黄牛
shopping coupon scalper
Some shopping malls give coupons to customers as discounts during promotions. If customers don’t want to use the coupons, scalpers profit by selling or buying them.

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