新词新译：蜗蜗族/倦鸟族/养狼计划/众包/过度引用/置顶/红颜知己/蓝颜知己/集智建房

蜗蜗族
snail clan
It refers to young office workers who brave heavy work pressure at breakneck speed and let out their pent-up emotions in a timely manner with vigorous outdoor sport. They devote themselves to both work and fun, so as a snail is known for being physically resilient, hence the Chinese expression.

倦鸟族
sloth clan, bored-bird clan
An expression used to refer to office workers who, more often than not, feel or look lethargic about their job, offering nothing but inefficient and poor performance and showing a readiness to job-hunt.

养狼计划
rival-fostering project
A project, literally meaning “wolf raising,” proposed by China’s table tennis authorities was meant to cultivate more competitive players in foreign countries to challenge China’s long-held monopoly over the sport. The project includes policies to encourage more talented Chinese to play on behalf of foreign countries while inviting more overseas players to train in China. It got the name because in Chinese language competitors are often referred to as wolves.

众包
crowd-source
It refers to the practice of outsourcing a task usually done by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community in the form of an open appeal.

过度引用
overquote
It has become a euphemism for authorities in a Chinese college to report, in concluding their probe into a plagiarism claim, that a professor in the school had “overquoted” from research papers.

置顶
sticky status
When a posting or an article is put at the very top of a web page to highlight its popularity, it is known to have a sticky status.

红颜知己
confidante
When a man meets a woman who is willing to share her secrets or emotional privacies with him and vice versa, the woman is considered as a 红颜知己 in Chinese. In Chinese, 红颜, which is translated literally as red face, traditionally means a beauty.

蓝颜知己
confidant
As 红颜 usually refers to a woman, 蓝颜, which literally means blue face, refers to males.

集智建房
wisdom-gathering housing project
Under pressure of rising house prices, some people in several cities have organized to realize their home dreams in a new way. They contribute ideas to the design of new apartments and work as a group to hire a developer. The approach allows them to get the design they want at lower cost.

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