It’s the time of the year for list making! This Youku video clip named the nine hottest lines on China’s web this year. The Yangtze Evening Post, an influential newspaper, is the original list compiler.
又到了一年盘点的时候了,扬子晚报上传了一段名叫今年中国网络九条最热流行语的视频,盘点了如下几条流行语。
According to the list, ge (哥, older brother, big brother) is without doubt the hottest net word of the year. Both of the top two cited lines use the word. In Chinese, ge here is used more like the first person pronoun (like the English, “Can a brother get a break?”)
根据这个盘点,“哥”无疑是今年网上最流行的词。最热的两条流行语都提到了“哥”。在汉语里,这个“哥”被用来指代自己。
1. What big brother is eating isn’t noodles, but loneliness.
哥吃的不是面,是寂寞。
It’s ironic that in a country as populous as China, a meme about loneliness would be so popular. This seemingly irrational line has been repeated in every possible permutation, on every possible occasion, e.g. “What big brother is reading not a book, but loneliness.”
像中国人口这么多的国家,关于寂寞的病毒式模仿会这么流行实在是件很讽刺的事情。这句看上去很无厘头的话被用在了所有可能搭配的排列中,用在了所有场合,比如,“哥看的不是书,是寂寞。”
2. Don’t fantasize about big brother: I am only legend.
别迷恋哥,哥只是个传说。
The most popular variation of this line is “Don’t fantasize about big sister: I am only legend.”
这句话最流行的变体是“别迷恋姐,姐只是个传说。”
3. Jia Junpeng, your mom wants you to go home for dinner.”
贾君鹏,你妈妈喊你回家吃饭。
If you haven’t heard about this, you probably haven’t been on the Chinese Internet in the last year. This simple line was left on a World of Warcraft BBS, and somehow — some are claiming it was an online agency stunt and was helped along — managed to attract over 7.1 million views and 300,000 comments in just the first 24 hours.
如果你没听过这句话,你去年绝对没上过中文网。这句简单的话是留在魔兽BBS上的,不知道什么原因——有说法是有网络公司是幕后推手——这句话吸引了710万人点击,在发布后24小时内产生了30万条评论。
4. We can’t go into detail on this matter.
这事儿不能说太细。
This quote is the only one picked for the list that didn’t come originally from the Web, but rather from the real world. A government official evading a journalist’s persistent question about the annual total of car loans repaid in Tianjin simply said, “We can’t go into detail on this matter,” which apparently Netizens found really laughable.
这句话是唯一来自现实世界而不是网络的。一位政府官员在回答《焦点访谈》记者“天津市每年要偿还公路建设的贷款量有多大”的问题时,回答到“这事儿不能说太细”,网民们觉得这句话很有意思,于是流传甚广。
The rest of them, he goes over quickly:
剩下的流行语,我们列在这里:
5. Life is like a coffee table: it’s got tea sets and dinnerware all over it. (beiju, 杯具, is a homophone for tragedy, 悲剧, and dinnerware, canju, 餐具, a homophone for disaster, 惨剧).
生活就像一个茶几,上面摆满了杯具和餐具。(杯具是“悲剧”的同音词,餐具是“惨剧”的同音词。)
6. It’s not that the story ended badly; it’s that we expect too much of the story.
不是故事的结局不够好,而是我们对故事要求太多。
7. Love is like two people holding two ends of a rubber band: it’s always the one who doesn’t let go who gets hurt more.
爱情就像两个人拉橡皮筋,受伤的总是不愿意放手的那一个。
8. A lovely flower doesn’t belong to the one who appreciates it, but to the dunghill it grows on. (“To stick a lovely flower in the dunghill” is a popular Chinese saying, normally used to describe the common social phenomenon of a pretty girl marrying an ugly but rich guy).
鲜花往往不属于赏花人,而属于牛粪。
9. You can’t spell BELIEVE without the LIE.
就算是believe里面,也有lie。
10. The difference between a lie and a promise is that the believer of a lie is the listener and the believer of a promise is the speaker.
谎言和誓言的区别在于,一个是听的人当真了,一个是说的人当真了。
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Chinasmack刚翻译了网易这个帖子,很搞笑,大家一起轻松一下,也可以学习一下如何把中文的网络流行语翻译成英文。
哥抽的不是烟,是寂寞!
What brother is smoking is not a cigarette, but loneliness!
哥们,让一下,你挡着我的手机信号了。
Brother, excuse me, you are blocking my mobile phone’s reception.
雷锋做好事不留名,但把每一件事情都记到日记里
Lei Feng does good things without seeking recognition, but records everything in his diary.
奥巴马,你还记得大明湖畔的夏语荷吗?
Obama, do you still remember Xia Yuhe on the bank of Daming Lake?
每个成功的奥特曼背后都有一个默默挨打的小怪兽
Behind every Ultraman success is a silent beaten little monster.
人生啊,就像茶几,上面摆满了杯具…
Life, is like a coffee/tea table, with cups placed all over it…
再牛的肖邦,也弹不出老子的悲伤
Even the most niu Chopin cannot express my sadness.
看广告看的好好的,怎么突然蹦出个电视剧
Happily watching commercials, how did a television drama suddenly appear? [complaint that there are more commercial than programming on television these days]
信春哥考本科,信曾哥得永生
Believe in Brother Chun and get into university, believe in Brother Zeng and receive everlasting life.
管他黑猫白猫,不被逮住都是好老鼠
Doesn’t matter if he uses a black cat or a white cat, any mouse that doesn’t get caught is a good mouse.
[Refers to famous Deng Xiaoping quote]
贾君鹏你妈妈喊你回家吃饭
Jia Junpeng, your mother wants you to go home to eat.
爱情就像便便,水一冲就再也回不来了~爱情就像便便,来了之后挡也挡不住~爱情就像便便,每次都一样又不太一样~爱情就像便便,有时努力了很久却只是个屁!
Love is like poop, upon flushing, it will never come back~ Love is like poop, the it comes, you can’t stop it even if you wanted to~ Love is like poop, every time it is the same yet not quite the same~ Love is like poop, sometimes after trying hard for a long time only results in a fart!
如果太阳不出来了,我就不去上班了;如果出来了,我就继续睡觉!
If the sun does not come out, I will not go to work; If it comes out, I will just continue sleeping!
骗子太多,傻子明显不够用了。
Too many swindlers, not enough fools left.
不要迷恋哥 哥只是个传说~
Don’t be obsessed with brother, brother is only a legend~
我临时性的回了个帖
I replied to a post on a whim.
人生啊,就像茶几,上面摆满了杯具…
人生啊,就像茶叶,天天泡在杯具里…
Life, is like a coffee/tea table, with cups placed all over it…
Life, is like a tea leaves, seeped daily in cups…
哈哈~我不是一个随便的人,可我随便起来不是人。。
Haha~ I am not a reckless man, but when I get reckless, I am no longer a man…
女人是水做的,为了迎合她们,男人注定成为一个个杯具
Women are made of water, in order to cater to them, men are destined to one by one become cups.
生活就像强奸,反抗不了,要学会享受!
Life is like rape, if you cannot fight it, you must learn to enjoy it!
莫装B,装B遭雷劈
Don’t zhuang B, zhuang B will be struck by lightning.
世界时我们的,也是儿子们的,但最终是那帮孙子们的~~
The world is ours, and also our sons’, but ultimately that bunch of grandsons’
['Grandson' also has a negative meaning, like "bastard"]~~
从未在超越 , 一直在模仿!
Never surpassed, always imitated!
[Probably referring to Michael Jackson]
不要迷恋姐 姐会让你吐血
Don’t be obsessed with sister, sister will make you vomit blood.
人生就是杯具与餐具的集合
Life is a set of cups and utensils.
你是不是党员?你准备替党说话还是替老百姓说话?
Are you a Communist Party member? Are you prepared to speak for the Party or for the ordinary common people?
我相信会有那么一个男人是为了受我虐待而来到这个世上的
I am confident there will be that one guy who enters the world meant to endure my abuse.
我身在江湖,江湖却没有关于我的传说!
I am in Jianghu, yet Jianghu does not have any legends of me!
人情债 我肉偿了!
My debts of gratitude have been repaid with my body!
对不起,你知道的太多了!
Sorry, you know too much!
台湾,你母亲六十大寿喊你回家吃饭
Taiwan, your mother is calling you back home to eat for her 60th birthday!
哥回的不是帖,是寂寞!!!!
What brother is replying to is not a post, but loneliness!!!
给我一个姑娘,我能创造一个民族!
Give me a young girl and I can create a ethnicity/nationality!
老虎不发威,你以为我是HEIIO KITTY.
Just because this tiger is not angry, you think I am HELLO KITTY?
你让我滚,我滚了,你让我回来,对不起,我滚远了。
You told me to get lost, so I got lost. You tell me to come back, sorry, I’m too far gone.
一早醒来,我以为我长大了,原来是被子盖横了……
Waking up early in the morning, I thought I had grown bigger, but it turned out my blanket was just sideways…
流氓不可怕,就怕流氓有文化..
Hooligans/gangsters are not scary, except if the hooligan/gangster has culture/sophistication…
给我一百城管,我能收复台湾!
Give me one hundred chengguan and I can recapture Taiwan!
做人要做陈冠希,开房要带照相机
When being a person, one must be like Edison Chen. When getting a room, one must bring a camera.
不明真相的群众在围观!
The masses who do not know the truth are looking on!
苹果最光辉的一刻就是砸在牛顿头上!
The apple’s most shining moment was falling on Newton’s head!
我又不是人民币哪能人人都喜欢
Since I am not RMB, how could everyone like me
你是哪个单位的?
What is your unit
有一种冲动叫感动,有一种感动叫白痴!
There is an emotional impact that can be called being moved, yet being moved in a certain way is simple idiotic
出问题先从自己身上找原因,别一便秘就怪地球没引力。
If there is a problem, first to find the cause from your own, do not blame earth gravity for your constipation
这年月,杀人赔钱,欠债不还!
These days, murderer pay compensation, debt holder never repay their debt
大学就是大概学学!
University is just usual study
太阳天天出,社会么么黑
Sun comes out everyday, society is getting darker day by day
人和猪的区别就是:猪它一直是猪,而人有时候不是人!
The difference between man and pig: a pig is always a pig, man sometimes just cannot be a man!
没有胆量,哪来产量
Without courage, there is no productivity
目前XX情绪稳定
Right now, XX is calm
我啥都不缺,就缺钱!
I am not short of anything, aside from money
真黑啊,伸指不见五手
so dark, I cannot even see five figures of my hand
要么忍,要么残忍
To endure, or to be brutal
社会没有错,错的只是人!
Society is not wrong, it is just people
年轻就是生产力!
Youth is productivity
世界在乎的是你所站的一个高度,并不在乎你站在垃圾上还是站在巨人的肩膀上。
What world cares is your height, not whether you are standing on rubbish or shoulder of giant
如果说美貌是推荐信,那么善良就是信用卡!
If beauty is a reference letter, then kindness is credit card
我们这边是政府的,没打折
We are government, no discount
自从我变成一坨屎以后,再也没有人敢踩在我的头上
Since I turned myself into a piece of shit, nobody dare to step upon my head anymore
不愿做奴隶的人民,愿做人民币的奴隶。
People who are unwilling to be slaves, are willing to be the slaves of Reople’s Currency
我们的目标是:为人民币服务!
Our Goal: Serve the People’s Currency
啥叫CEO?这么给你说吧,其实跟UFO差不多。
What is CEO?Tell you this, it is kind like UFO
每当困难的时候我就念藏经:“噢嘛呢哞嘛哄”, 翻译成英文就是:All money go my home!
Every time when I feel tired, I prey in Tibetan:”oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ”, translated into English:All money go my home!
感谢党,感谢政府!给了我。。。。。。
Thanks Party, Thanks Governmetn! For giving me ……
妈妈,毛主席是你的同事吗?
Mom, is Chariman Mao your colleague?
给我一部黄片,我可以撬动地球!
Give me a porn movie, I can move the earth!
我是党员,什么都不怕!
I am a Party member, not afraid of anything!
悲剧上演,请围观群众自带板凳。。。
There is a tragedy,people who surround and watch please remember bring your stool……
别人都在假装正经,我只好假装不正经
Since everyone else is acting so serious, so I have to act like a joker
对不起, 我是党员
I am sorry, I am a Party member