0911文化欣赏-时尚流行词

1、A "status-gap marriage" is one in which there is a clear gap in income, pedigree, social status, etc. between the husband and wife. The phrase usually refers to marriages in which a woman marries "beneath herself," such as the marriage between Japanese actress Norika Fujiwara and her husband, the lesser-known comedian Tomonori Jinnai. They ended in porce in 2009.

Status-gap marriage（格差婚）指夫妻双方在收入、家庭条件、社会地位等方面相差悬殊的婚姻，多指女方“下嫁”的情况。比如，日本女星藤原纪香与不太知名的喜剧演员阵内智则的婚姻就被看作是格差婚。两人最终于2009年离婚。

Durian clan refers to those ill-tempered co-workers who have been working for many years and are hard to get along with, just like the smelly fruit with thick thorny skin.

2、榴莲族，是对职场中有一定工作资历，但脾气像榴莲一样又臭又硬，不好相处的群体的称呼。

Unlike the strawberry clan, who are newbies in the workplace, people in the durian clan are accustomed to workplace routines, and may be experiencing a kind of job burnout after many years of hard work. As a result, they might easily show their hot temper in the office.

相对初入职场的草莓族来说，榴莲族已经入职多年，工作对于他们来说，也许早已脱离了兴趣爱好，每天只是过着按部就搬的日子。如此情况下，榴莲族们对职业的疲劳感会越来越深，对人对事，自然少了些随和，多了些暴躁。

In addition, people in the durian clan often don’t look so well due to years of overwork and signs of aging. And as old hands in the workplace, they usually have thicker skin than others.

除此之外，长期熬夜加班再加上岁月的痕迹，让榴莲族的脸色不怎么好看，而且“职场老油条”的榴莲族们，往往脸皮都比较厚。

3、Lavender language functions as a kind of homosexual code, characterised by acronyms, plays on words and double meanings only intended to be understood by the gay community.

Lavender language相当于一种同性恋密码，以使用缩略字、文字游戏以及双关语为特点，主要服务于同性恋人群内的沟通交流，所以称为“同性恋语言”。

The colour lavender is often used to identify 'gay-friendly' environments, hence its use in terminology surrounding gay issues.

淡紫色（lavender）通常都被认作“同性恋友好”类环境的标志，因此，与lavender相关的专用术语多与同性恋有关。

This alternative sense of the adjective lavender is, in fact, used productively in a variety of issues surrounding the gay community, and in the linguistic context occurs in descriptions such as lavender texts, lavender phonology/terminology and the lavender lexicon.

Lavender的这种用法出现在各种与同性恋有关的主题中，比如lavender texts（同性恋文本）、lavender phonology（同性恋语音体系），以及lavender lexicon（同性恋词汇表）等。

4、Social jet lag refers to the feeling of being very tired when you return to work after a holiday, especially because of changes to your sleeping pattern.

Social jet lag指休假结束返回工作岗位时的倦怠感，主要是由睡眠模式的变化引起的，称为“假后返工时差”。

The root cause of social jet lag is the more relaxed sleeping pattern that many people adopt when on holiday. Conscious that they don't need to be up at the crack of dawn the next day, people luxuriate in the opportunity to lie in, getting up later in the morning and going to bed later in the evening. Faced with going back to work after perhaps as much as two weeks of a different cycle of waking and sleeping, a person's body clock is thrown out of sync. This has a similar effect to the one experienced by flying west across one or more time zones.

“假后返工时差”的根本原因是人们在休假期间往往享受一种比较放松的睡眠模式。因为知道第二天不用早起，人们就会充分享受赖床、晚睡和晚起的时光。在经历了一段时间完全不同的作息方式要回到工作状态之时，人们的生物钟已经完全不在休假前那个状态了。这种感觉就跟乘坐飞机从东半球跨越好几个时区飞到西半球的感觉一样，（是有时差的）。

5、A person who engages in stage-phoning is someone who talks loudly on their mobile in a deliberate attempt to attract the interest and attention of people around them. Such inpiduals appear to be behaving as if they were giving a performance, with the mobile as a theatrical prop, hence the use of the word stage.

Stage-phoning（演戏式通话）指一个人用手机打电话很大声，故意想要吸引旁边人的关注。这些人打电话时候的行为就好像在表演一样，把手机当作道具，所以才会用stage这个词来表示。

The derived noun stage-phoner has been coined to describe these types, who in American English are sometimes also referred to by the rather derogatory term cell (phone) jerk. We meet stage-phoners at every street corner, waiting room or café.

由此衍生的stage-phoner就指进行演戏式通话的人，在美式英语中还有一个更具贬义的词cell (phone) jerk（手机傻冒）来形容这些人。在街角、等候室或者咖啡馆都会有他们的身影。

6、Courtesy call is a sugarcoated term used by telemarketers which really means sales call. This is one of the most deceitful and misleading phrases ever since there is nothing courteous about it.

Courtesy call（字面意思：礼节性电话）是被电话促销员巧妙伪装了的一个词，其实就指“促销电话”。这个词算是史上最具欺骗性和误导性的词了，因为“促销电话”本身没有一点礼节可言。

For example:

Hello. This is a courtesy call from Talk America which is inviting you to switch to our service.

你好。这里是来自Talk America的销售电话，我们想邀请您改用我们的服务。

7、WAGs (or Wags) is an acronym, used particularly by the British tabloid press, to describe the wives and girlfriends of high-profile football players, originally the England national football team. The term came into common use during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The acronym has since been used by the media in other countries to describe the wives and girlfriends of sportsmen in general.

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