新词新译：气球贷款/大额尾付贷款/枕边风/蹭停族/出气筒/乱入/(你)太有才了!/名人博客/食物里程

气球贷款/大额尾付贷款
balloon loan, balloon payment mortgage
This term refers to a mortgage which does not fully amortize over the term, leaving a big “balloon payment” at maturity. It is a new product introduced by some domestic banks in face of the sluggish mortgage market.

枕边风
pillow talk
This term refers specifically to the private conversions between a husband and wife in China. The “pillowside breeze,” as the Chinese term translates literally, usually describes a situation where a wife tries to influence her husband’s decisions through gentle whispers in the bed.

蹭停族
free parking tribe
The expression refers to those drivers who try to park their car in a place, such as school compounds, that charges no parking fees.

出气筒
punching bag
The colloquial expression in Chinese means a person who becomes a target for others to vent their anger or criticism at, though sometimes as a scapegoat for another one who deserves it.

乱入
please come in, pop in
The term originally means to enter a place without permission. But as slang widely used in BBS, it now means to invite others to come in freely. For a Netizen, who needs others to answer his or her questions or just read his or her post in a BBS, the person may use this term in the headline to attract attention.

(你)太有才了!
You’re so gifted!
This was the jape repeatedly cited by a female comedian in a show at this year’s Spring Festival television gala, now a sine qua non of the Chinese New Year celebration. Since then it has become so popular, and it is widely used in daily conversations to flatter someone for his/her smarts.

名人博客
celeblog
Many celebrities nowadays have set up their own blogs to reach out to their fans or to further extend their influence. This new term, however, means either a blog written by a celebrity or a blog devoted to a particular celebrity or to celebrity news and gossip.

食物里程
food miles
This term means the “mileage of food” before it reaches the consumer. According to a study report, the rise in food miles has led to increases in the environmental, social and economic burdens associated with transport, which include carbon dioxide emissions, air pollution, congestion, accidents and noise.

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