沙发客　(sha1fa1ke4)
couch surfer
People who offer their couches free to others who are travelling around the world in exchange for free accommodation when they travel.

掌门驴　(zhang3men2lu2)
leading tour pal
People who organize travels usually as part of a group. They are the group members who play the role of leaders by organizing and guiding the others.

色驴　(se4lu2)
shutterbug tour pals
A portmanteau of Chinese names for shutterbugs and tour pals.

索女　(suo3nu3)
chic woman
An expression borrowed from Cantonese dialect referring to fashionably dressed but, more importantly, elegantly behaved women.

没品　(mei2pin2)
unethical person
Netizens use the colloquial expression to describe those who often act without following basic morals or honoring promises.

选择性失明(xuan3ze2xing4shi1ming2)
selective blindness
Frequently used to describe some Western media that deliberately turn a blind eye to the positives when reporting about China.

厕所户口 (ce4suo3hu4kou2)
public toilet registered as residence
In China, a registered permanent residence can determine which public school a child can go to. So their children can go to a good public school, some parents use the address of a public toilet near the chosen school for residence registration. By doing so, they don't have to actually move to there or purchase a home there, the prerequisite for registering a residence.

信誉刷手 (xin4yu3shua1shou3)
credit score booster
A derogatory term referring to posting positive comments online about each other抯 online shops in order to boost credit scores.

中国式奢侈 (zhong1guo2shi4she1chi3)
Chinese-style luxury
It refers mainly to many local government officials who spend beyond their fiscal means to build super luxury office buildings and buy expensive cars for official use.

暖春之旅 (nuan3chun1zhi1lu3)
warm spring trip
Refers to the recent visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to Japan. Hu described his visit as a 搘arm spring trip?to indicate the efforts made by the two countries to enhance their bilateral relations.

贱女孩 (jian4nu4hai2)
low-taste girl
Specifically refers to the twin sisters in Beijing who have opened a blog to ridicule their teachers and rebel against accepted social ethics.

看点(kan4dian3)
selling point, key attraction
Any part of an event or publication that attracts most attention from spectators or readers.

话题人物(hua4ti2re2nwu4)
most talked about person, target of gossip
A person who is talked about by the general public, usually due to media coverage.

救市(jiu4shi4)
to shore up the market
The Chinese government has introduced policies to stop continuous nosedives in the country's securities market.

老板键(lao3ban3jian4)
boss shortcut key
Used by Internet users to quickly hide or close software or Web pages they don't want the boss to know they are browsing at work.

小腹婆(xiao3fu4po2)
Ms Fat Belly
Similar in pronunciation to "Little Ms Rich" in Chinese, but describes ladies who have fat accumulated around their waist.

活人墓(huo2ren2mu4)
tomb for the living
Many rich people have built tombs for themselves or family members in a county in the Three Gorges Dam area. Building tombs for oneself or living family members has become a status symbol in some places in China.

手足口病(shou3zu2kou3bing4)
Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), enterovirus 71 (EV71)
Disease that has killed at least 24 children and infected more than 5,000 others in several provinces.

农业通胀 (nong2ye4tong1zhang4)
agflation
A blend of "agriculture and "inflation. It refers to the inflation driven predominantly by rising prices of agricultural products.

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