psycho-boom (心理热潮) (n.): recent rapid, enthusiastic import of psychiatric concepts and treatments in China. Excellent stuff. Except, unfortunately, psychoanalysis has stolen a march on the cognitive/biological approach, and is enjoying a lucrative afterlife, following its much-deserved death in the West.
American psychoanalytic institutes often have trouble finding willing patients; Chinese programs have the opposite problem. When Beijing University held a series of lectures on Carl Jung a few years ago, it could admit only a quarter of the people who wanted to attend.
scènes à faire (legal n.): something too simple or cliched to be copyrightable. e.g. rooftop showdown, the millenial whoop.
to get winstoned (underground UK v.): to cut one's septum on one of the new plastic £10 notes, which have Churchill's face on them.
bomb (underground UK n.): a paper case to deliver powder to the stomach.
sac (chess v.): to sacrifice
Quadrilateral (international n.): Potential anti-China bloc: the US, India, Australia and Japan
the clenis (90s US proper n.): Bill Clinton's dick.
Mendelian disorder (biology n.): a monogenic, heritable disease. Follows the three laws. Not the usual case.
skort (n.): culottes; shorts with an extra bit of fabric mimicking a short skirt.
hodler (internet n.): holder; a person who owns Bitcoin long-term.
willybot (internet n.): program for fraudulent trading, especially of bitcoin, to inflate prices. Named after one operating in the late and ominous Mt Gox.
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