老鼠仓
rat trading
The term has recently come into the spotlight as some mainland brokers were believed to have made illegal profits by conducting so-called “rat trading” or a kind of scalping scheme in the stock market by cheating their clients.
动车组
bullet train
Bullet trains, with bullet-shaped locomotives, are designed based on aerodynamic theories, allowing the train to run at a high speed. China launched its first batch of homemade bullet trains on April 18, which can run at 200 kilometers per hour.
玉米虫
domain investor
This term, literally “corn worm,” refers to people who earn money by registering valuable Internet domains. A netizen reportedly sold to the search engine giant for more than US$1 million. The pronunciation of “corn” is similar to “domain” in Chinese.
砸星运动
star-bashing campaign
After the father of an Andy Lau fan committed suicide in Hong Kong early this year, some young people on the Chinese mainland smashed CDs and tore down posters of pop stars in an attempt to reason with infatuated fans.
双核家庭
dual-core family
This refers to a family where both husband and wife are only children or the single “core” of their respective families before they got married. The new family, of course, has two “cores” as neither of the couple knows how to behave not as a “core” in a family.
