更多的時髦詞語：

gourmet美食家

epicure 精食不厭的人；過分講究飲食的人 

squeegee man 抹車仔 

sandwich man夾板廠告員 

door-knocker挨戶推銷員

paparazzo 狗仔隊（偷拍名人隱私照的新聞記者，pl. paparazzi)

請注意！我們所用的詞語展現(xiàn)了我們內心的時代，如果你滿嘴的陳詞濫調，成了“過去時”，那太叮憐了。我們來看看下面的新詞語變化：

mods, hippies，punk, funk, rappers, hip-hop, para para 

extended family, nuclear family, dink family, co-habitants, trial marriage

old timers, country bumpkins, senior revolutionaries, old fools, Good Old Days (implying no bright future), generation gap

yesteryear (the sentimental way of saying last year) 

artificial insemination, embryo education (giving music and talks to an unborn baby), edutainment (education wilh entertainment)

modern kids； more money and leisure time, less responsibility

little Emperors：cynical/egocentric/egoistic/feel life is dull, need sth. exciting or interesting

football fans，music fanatics, hi-fi fads, Hip-Hop 

beep pagers, beepers, BP holders, Motorala’Pageboy I, cellular phones, mobile phones, WAP

multimedia ： computer, CD-ROM ( Read Only Memory), Hifi sound system with surround sound, electronic games, TV function, CD player, Discman

new fads: T-bridge (cat walk and no longer goose walk), karaoke, kiwifruit, Cherokee rose fruit (thorny pears), king of vitamin C, Ld (machine)，MTV, VCD,

DVD 

vegetable basket project, decent-life project and four modernizations