Random new word of the day

[imron]

You should because it’s funny, but I ask because that’s where I first heard the term 绿茶婊

[Jan Finster]

3 minutes ago, imron said:

You should because it’s funny

The trailer looks funny.?

I could not find the full movie on Youtube and on Viki there is a geo-restriction... I will watch it next time I get premium VPN.

[Jan Finster]

追剧  (zhuī jù)

Def: to watch a TV series etc regularly; to binge-watch

 

Guilty as charged ?

[Tomsima]

My word of the day is both Chinese and its English counterpart: 鼻翼, the 'alae' of the nose. It appears in some dictionaries as the 'nostrils', the 鼻孔, but this seems to be inaccurate. The word 鼻翼 seems to turn up a lot in plastic surgery descriptions, and the same seems to be true of the word 'alae' (interestingly, I feel like I have heard of 'the wings of the nose' before at some point, which matches the Chinese here). While I was previously unfamiliar with the term ala, I realised I knew 'septum' in English, but not Chinese, which for those interested turns out to be 鼻中隔

[Jan Finster]

尿急       

urinary urgency = really need to go to the loo ?

 

[Tomsima]

“人有三急”

[imron]

管风琴 - pipe organ

[roddy]

"Lao Zhang, what are you working on today?"

"Ah, the usual. Thought I might find an obscure synonym for some common word though, keep the translator on his toes."

 

异邦, foreign country. 

 

I don't actually know how obscure it is. I don't remember ever seeing it, for what that's worth. 

[Jim]

殊方异域！

[roddy]

西八区 - never seen this before, but it's how Chinese refers to timezones (sometimes?). So this is eight hours west and behind of GMT, or Pacific Standard (ie, west coast of the US). Scroll down.

[Jan Finster]

低头族 = smart-phone addicts

 

[roddy]

人海战术 - Human-wave tactics - ie, a mass infantry advance into the machine-guns. 

 

This one had me scratching my head for a while, as I came across it in a vaguely nautical context and didn't think to take the 海 figuratively. 

[Tomsima]

On 4/16/2020 at 9:18 AM, roddy said:

异邦

 

I just happened upon this in the word 異邦人, and it appears it is actually Japanese (don't know if any Japanese speakers can confirm this?) I know sometimes people will borrow Japanese terms back into Chinese, do you think thats what happened in the context you heard it used?

[roddy]

泥炭地 - peatlands, mire...

 

When I was very little, we used to cut peat. Fortunately we stopped before I was old enough to do any of the hard work. 

[Michaelyus]

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When I was very little, we used to cut peat. Fortunately we stopped before I was old enough to do any of the hard work. 

 

What's the rustic northern Chinese equivalent of "When I were a lad..."?

 

Came across 籴粮 (traditional: 糴糧) recently. Fond memories of doing the monthly "rice run".

 

 

 

[大块头]

树懒

shu4 lan3

 

Spoiler

sloth

 

[Tomsima]

I take it you missed out on the Zootopia (風狅動物城) craze a few years back, key vocab for that couple of months!

[roddy]

Don't think this is particularly new, except to me: 晒, as a loanword for 'share', as in to share on social media. 

[mungouk]

Seen on WeChat 朋友圈:

 

活久见      huó jiǔ jiàn    (neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything; Just incredible!
 

Anyone know the origin of this?

[Jim]

Used by a very Beijing friend, new to me after all these years: 寸劲儿 meaning coincidence; apparently can also mean just the right amount of force applied.