新词新译：唐僧肉/文化奶妈/免费续杯/阿姨/含金量/走鬼/蹭健族/人气/粉飞客

唐僧肉
everyone’s craving
The Chinese word derives from the classicnovel “A Journey to the West,” which describes how Monk Tang (Tripitaka) went tothe West to find the Buddhist scriptures. It is said that anyone who eats Monk Tang’s flesh will become immortal. As a result, every devil in the novel tries to capture the monk and eat his flesh. Today, the term refers to any lucrative business or opportunity whereeveryone wants to have a taste of the dish.

文化奶妈
cultural nanny
The term originally referred to Yu Dan, a female professor who explained difficult traditional Chinese literature and moral classics to the public in plain language on a TV program. Now the term refers to anyone who feeds the public with highbrow culture like a nanny feeds a baby.

免费续杯
free top-up
As a popular service in China and around the world, free top-up is a useful sales promotion for restaurants, bars, cafe or tea houses to attract more customers.

阿姨
IE or Internet Explorer
The Chinese term, which means literally"auntie," has a similar pronunciation with IE Internet Explorer — and is widely used among Chinese netizens, especially in headlinesof BBS posts, to attract people’s attention, because ayi sometimes refers to a caring female.

含金量
true value
The phrase literally means gold content, butin daily use, it is often employed to describe the true value of almost everything, ranging from an academic paper to a business project.

走鬼
illegal booth owner
This term is mostly used in Guangdong, which means people who run illegal stalls along the streets and play hide-andseek with police officers. The owners have to push their booths  and escape as fast as possible to avoid being caught by police. The Chinese term literally means “walking ghost.”

蹭健族
gym hanger-on
The term refers to people who seek coupons or other opportunities to use gymnasiums for free. They tend to occupy the facilities for a long time, making themselves a nuisance in many gyms.

人气
popularity
When a place attracts a large crowd on a regular basis or is always full of activities, people say it is enjoying high popularity, or in Chinese, it is full of “human smell.”

粉飞客
fanfic
An abbreviation for “fan fiction,” the term refers to fans who are interested in writing sequels or changing plots of TV series to express their ideas, passions or dissatisfactions.

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