新词新译：首席忽悠官/公司腐败官/排/自来熟/抢抢族/黑屏/立升/娃妈/打鸡血/跟风

首席忽悠官
CHO
The H here is short both for “human resources” and the Chinese pinyin for huyou (or coaxing). Young people playfully call the human resources workers as CHO these days because they believe in many cases the HRs are trying to paint a rosy picture of their companies for job seekers, against the fears of a global economic recession.

公司腐败官
CFO
The term means Corporate Fraud Officer here, not chief financial officer. It is another example of borrowing and twisting the meaning of an existing term.

排
agreed
At online chat rooms, Netizens use this Chinese word, meaning literally to queue or line up, to express their agreement to an opinion. It roughly means to get into the queue or stand in the same line as others.

自来熟
naturally chummy, gregarious
It refers to people who tend to willingly and instantly befriend strangers or newcomers. Some people like this kind of "instant befriending"attitude, but others loathe it.

抢抢族
online bargain hunter
Some young people are hooked online and keep an eagle eye on the limited number of gifts and bargains offered by a business and lose no time to take the offer and get the services.

黑屏
black screen
It's the latest Microsoft scheme to fight piracy. It replaces the screen wallpaper of a computer using pirated Microsoft Windows and Office software with a black screen every hour when the computer is turned on.

立升
high-heeled clout
The word in Shanghai dialect originally describes the volume of a container. A person with "volume"now means a high-heeled investor or a person with clout.

娃妈
doll mommy
This term refers to some young women who spend a lot of time with ball-joint dolls. They "adopt"(buy) dolls and treat them like their own kids. The dolls, mostly made in Japan and South Korea, look realistic and cuddly with large heads and big eyes.

打鸡血
get excited, be stimulated
The word literally means injecting chicken blood, a fad in the late 1960s in China as a way to boost one's health. Now, it is often used to describe someone getting excited or stimulated.

跟风
copycat, follow blindly
A copycat is a person who mimics other people. The word means someone following a trend often in a blind way.

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