一些有中國特色的詞匯

fortable life
笨鳥先飛 A slow sparrow should make an early start.
蹦極 bungee, bungee jumping
避免“大而全”的重復建設 avoid duplicate (duplicated, overlapping) construction of "small and all inclusive projects"
逼上梁山 be driven to drastic alternatives
比較經濟學 comparative economics
比上不足,比下有余 worse off than some, better off than many; to fall short of the best, but be better than the worst
閉門羹 given cold-shoulder
邊際報酬 marginal return
邊緣科學 boundary science
變相漲價 disguised inflation
便攜式電腦 portable computer; laptop; notebook computer
標書 bidding documents
表演賽 demonstration match
剝奪冠軍 strip the gold medal of somebody
博彩(業)lottery industry
博士生 Ph.D candidate
補缺選舉 by-election
補貼與反補貼措施 subsidies and countervailing measures
布達拉宮 Potala Palace
布雷頓森林體系 Bretton Woods system
不敗記錄 clean record, spotless record
不承諾放棄使用武器 not undertake to renounce the use of force
不打不成交 No discord, no concord.
不到長城非好漢 He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man.
不分上下的總統選舉結果the neck-and-neck presidential election result
《不見不散》 Be there or be square.
不可再生資源 non-renewable resources
不良貸款 non-performing loan
不夜城 sleepless city, ever-bright city
不正之風 bad (harmful) practice; unhealthy tendency
不準打白條 No illegitimate promissory notes (IOUs)
步行天橋 foot bridge
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擦邊球 edge ball, touch ball
擦網球 net ball
采取高姿態 show magnanimity
采取市場多元化戰略 adopt the strategy of a multi-outlet market
“菜籃子”工程 the "shopping basket' project (program)
參政、議政 participate in the management of State affairs
滄海桑田 Seas change into mulberry fields and mulberry fields change into seas--time brings great changes to the world.
What was once the sea has now changed into mulberry fields--the world is changing all the time.
倉儲式超市 stockroom-style supermarket
草根工業 grass root industry (refers to village and township enterprises which take root among farmers and grow like wold grass)
層層轉包和違法分保 multi-level contracting and illegal sub-contracting
差額投票 differential voting
差額選舉 competitive election
茶道 sado
查房 make/go the rounds of the wards
拆東墻補西墻 rob Peter to pay Paul
拆遷戶 households or units relocated due to building demolition
攙水股票 water-down stocks (ordinary stocks that can be bought by persons inside a stock company or a business at a cost lower that their face value)
禪 dhyana
產糧大省 granary province
產量比1997年增加了2倍 the output has increased 3 times (registered a 3-fold increase; increased 2
