哭穷 complain about impoverishment；pretend to be poor
枯水季节 dry season
跨国公司 transnational corporation
跨国婚介 mail-order bride trade (In the age of globalization, the international matchmaking industry — still known in many circles as the mail-order bride trade — is thriving like never before. 在全球化时代，国际婚介机构，也就是很多人所谓的“邮购新娘”业务，正迎来从未有过的繁荣发展。)
跨国婚姻 Mixed marriage (Frequent migration across borders, driven by the country's rapid economic growth, is a major reason behind the growing number of mixed marriages. 跨国婚姻增多的主要原因是我国经济高速发展所带来的频繁移民。)
跨行转帐 inter-bank transfer service. (Do you offer an inter-bank transfer service? 你们有提供跨行转帐的服务吗？)
跨境婚姻 cross-country marriage; marriage of a native with a foreigner
跨境交付（服务贸易） cross border supply
跨领域问题 cross-border issue
跨年晚会 countdown party (The New Year Countdown party at Singapore's Marina Bay is expected to draw in a bigger crowd this year, with the completion of key developments in the area and more vantage points on offer. 据预计，在新加坡滨海湾举办的跨年晚会今年将吸引更多的观众，这一地区的几处关键修缮工程已完工，将呈现给观众更多亮点。)
跨世纪 cross-century; trans-century
跨世纪的一代 a generation of people who span the two centuries
跨世纪工程 a trans-century project
跨世纪绿色工程规划 trans-century green engineering program
跨业公司 conglomerate company
跨越式发展 leapfrog development (He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has urged governments and people in Heilongjiang Province, an industrial and grain production base of China, to tap its unique potentials for a "leapfrog development." 中共中央政治局常委、中央纪委书记贺国强敦促黑龙江省政府和人民利用黑龙江独特的潜能实现“跨越式发展”。黑龙江是我国的工业和粮食生产基地。)
跨种姓婚姻 inter-caste marriages (Finance Minister Surendra Pandey said inter-caste marriages were still frowned upon in Nepal. 尼泊尔财政部长苏伦德拉•潘迪说，跨种姓婚姻至今仍为一些尼泊尔人所排斥。)
扩大直接融资 expand the scope of direct financing
跨国恐怖组织 transnational terrorist groups
快餐 fast food; MRE (meals ready to eat)
快递 express delivery
会计电算化 accounting computerization
快镜头 quick motion
快闪族 flash mob (Liverpool Street Station, one of London's largest railway stations was forced to close for about 90 minutes on Friday evening after a flash mob with over 13,000 people congregated at the same time, dancing to mimic an advert in which 400 actors had been filmed dancing at the station. The police closed the railway station due to fears of overcrowding. 周五晚，超过13000人组成的“快闪族”聚集在伦敦最大的车站之一——利物浦车站，模仿一段广告中400演员同时起舞的情景。警方担心出现踩踏，将车站关闭了90分钟。)
快速反应部队 rapid response force
空气质量监测 air quality monitoring (The public debate on PM2.5 and PM10 first began when air quality monitoring results released by Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and the US Embassy in Beijing often differed based on the different measurements. 由于标准不同，北京市环保局和美国驻华大使馆公布的北京市空气质量监测数据存在差别，这也引发了有关PM2.5标准和PM10标准的首次公开大讨论。)
空勤 air duty
空嫂 married airline stewardess
空头市场 bear market
空头司令 leading cadre estranged from the people
空头政治 phony politics
空头支票 1. unconvertible cheque; blank check 2. empty promise; unfulfilled promise
控制人口数量 control the population size
空中巴士客车、空中客车 Airbus plane
空中飞人 frequent flyer. This Chinese term, “man flying in the sky,” is sometimes used to refer to trapeze artists. But here it refers to frequent plane travelers.
空中教育 education through broadcast media
空中楼阁 castle in the air; daydream; ivory tower
空中小姐 air hostess; air stewardess
空中走廊 air corridor; air lane
恐韩症 Koreaphobia (Koreaphobia is an expectation of being beaten by Korea.)
空降师 airborne division
孔雀女 silk-stocking lady (This tag refers to a girl from a big city and a rich family. Many such girls have been brought up under their parents' care and have yet to experience one of life's big storms. In English, we could say that they have been "sheltered", and that they were "born with a silver spoon in their mouth".) (来源：21世纪英文报第753期 中山大学陈萌整理)
空中交通管理 air traffic control
空中信号灯 sky beamer
扣帽子 put a label on
口蹄疫 foot-and-mouth disease
口头禅 pet phrase
口碑 word of mouth (Word of mouth is one of the best ways of getting business.)
酷毙 extremely cool; the coolest
苦果 bitter fruit——something unpleasant as a result of some action