08年熱點辭彙英文完全表達 3
作者：不詳 （字數：1300字作文）
7 Presidential Election of the United States （美國總統大選）
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama, the Deomcratic presidential candidate of the United States, beat his opponent, John McCain, and was elected the 56th president of the U.S. Obama is the first African-American president in American history.
2008年11月4日，美國民主黨總統候選人貝拉克 歐巴馬擊敗了對手約翰麥凱恩成為第56屆總統。他是美國歷史上首位非洲裔總統。
8 Thunderstruck （雷）
Thunderstruck is Internet slang popular among netizens. Originally from a dialect in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, it means “stumble” or “crash.” The word has evolved to mean “faint” or “being too surprised to comment” in China’s contemporary Internet vocabulary.
這個詞是08年流行於網民中間的俚語，最初是浙江省東北部的方言，意為“絆”“倒”。後來就有了類似於“暈”或“嚇一跳”的意思。
9 Shanzhai （山寨）
Originally referring to the stronghold of robbers in the mountains, Shanzhai is now often used to describe copycat brands without independent R&D capacity, which survive in the market by producing goods similar to those of big brands. This is now regarded as a social culture of anti-mainstream grassroots.
本意指山上強盜的老窩，現在的意思是盲目的模仿牌子貨。缺乏獨立的研發（research and development）能力，靠模仿那些大品牌的產品在市場中立足。現在也被看成是反主流的草根社會文化。