新词新译：阴影/小字辈/骂山门/真人秀/煞根/海姆/i-世代/百搭药/群租

阴影
shadow
It is used these days when someone says he or she is still reeling from the negative influence from a certain event that made him unhappy or unsuccessful.

小字辈
obscure person
Compared with big shots or people of a higher status, fledgling artists or people at the grassroots level of a company are often called  xiaozibei . 

骂山门
make a fuss about nothing
The dialect commonly used in Shanghai and neighboring areas is believed to have originated from making a scene without any good reason to show anger at monks at the gate of a temple, who are generally too tolerant to offend others.

真人秀
reality show
If refers to TV programs which feature common people caught in real life situations instead of acting as the producer directs.

煞根
shocking; extreme
The Shanghai dialect is one of the typical examples of the Chinglish developed in the colonial period of Shanghai as shagen is a near transliteration of the English word shocking. It may also roughly translate as extreme.

海姆
Ham, amateur radio operator
This is the transliteration of the English word ham, or amateur radio operators. The source of the name ham is not known but it has been around almost from the beginning of amateur radio in the early 1900s. The name amateur has nothing to do with skill or knowledge but rather implies that ham radio cannot be used for commercial purposes.

i-世代
i-generation
This term, translated from English, refers to people who have grown up with Internet and digital technology, and for whom online plays a pivotal role in shaping their opinions and aspirations, and how they approach their personal relationships and professional lives.
 
百搭药
panacea
Many people take antibiotics whenever they get a fever, cough, or slight headache, as if antibiotics cure all. The state has recently banned doctors from indiscriminately prescribing antibiotics for their patients.

群租
collective renting
Most migrant workers like to participate in the collective renting program as they cram as many people as possible into a small house in order to cut the share of the rent each has to pay.

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