新词新译：网络视频女郎/钻石王老五/二奶/款爷/维实/积分族/强档/体商/放水

网络视频女郎
camgirl
This term refers to a girl or young woman who broadcasts live pictures of herself over the World Wide Web. Nowadays, more people are choosing to live in front of a camera, hooked up to the Internet via a high-speed connection. Most of them are girls and young women broadcasting from the most private spaces of their bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.
 
钻石王老五
diamond bachelor
The Chinese term translates directly as “an old Joe with diamonds.” A diamond bachelor has usually passed the optimum marriage years, but is much valued because he is successful in his career and has status in society. Many women desire such bachelors.

二奶
kept mistress
This Chinese term was used in the past to refer to the number two of a man’s wives. But today, it is widely used to call a kept mistress who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man. She is usually financially supported by the man. 

款爷
moneybags, fat cat
This term consists of two Chinese characters, namely, “money” and “big shot.” So its meaning is self-evident. But it’s a slangy term and used often in the northern part of the country.

维实
wikiality
This term is a translation of a new English word “wikiality,” which means a reality as defined by a consensus, particularly in a collaborative online endeavor such as Wikipedia. Any user can change any entry and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true.

积分族
bonus-point clan
It refers to those urban people, especially the young people, who spare no effort in paying by credit card instead of cash to earn more bonus points from the card issuer.

强档
prime time
Prime time is the block of time with the most viewers and is generally when television networks and local stations attract the largest audience and reap much of their advertising revenues.

体商
body quotient
It has come to refer to the health state of a person these days as more people pay increasing attention to their physical well-being.

放水
act leniently
It refers to when an authority or superior intentionally bends the rules to let someone off the hook.

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