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有中国特色的常用词汇五

  c.

  擦边球 edge ball, touch ball

  擦网球 net ball

  采取高姿态 show magnanimity

  采取市场多元化战略 adopt the strategy of a multi-outlet market

  “菜篮子”工程 the “shopping basket' project (program)

  参政、议政 participate in the management of state affairs

  沧海桑田 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.

  仓储式超市 stockroom-style supermarket

  草根工业 grass root industry (refers to village and township enterprises

  which take root among farmers and grow like wold grass)

  层层转包和违法分保 multi-level contracting and illegal sub-contracting

  差额投票 differential voting

  差额选举 competitive election

  茶道 sado

  查房 make/go the rounds of the wards

  拆东墙补西墙 rob peter to pay paul

  拆迁户 households or units relocated due to building demolition

  搀水股票 water-down stocks (ordinary stocks that can be bought by persons