youth waiting for job 待业青年

The unemployed young people of the 1980s, after the government stopped assigning jobs to middle school grads, at State-owned enterprises or government offices. Some unemployed youth could "inherit" a post from a retired parent. Others tried small businesses.

80年代，政府停止为中学毕业生提供国企及政府机关的工作机会，致使社会上出现大批待业青年。其中，一部分人能从退休父母那里继承工作；另一部分人则只能选择小型企业。

1990s 20世纪90年代

speculate in stock 炒股

Investing in the stock market was the order of the day in the late 1990s after the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges opened. Chinese used a word from cooking, "chao" (stir-fry), to describe the unstable nature of the trading, which involved keeping the shares moving (buying and selling) to keep it hot.

90年代，上海、深圳交易所创立后，股票市场投资大行其道。根据其不稳定的特征，中国人用烹饪中的“炒”（翻炒）来形容炒股交易，该词还包含了保持股票不断买卖交易、维持股票热度的含义。

keeping a mistre 包二奶

Originally, Cantonese for a married man with a long-term extramarital affair, where he kept a woman by giving her money, a car, or a flat. This became more common in the late 1990s when people got rich enough to afford such costs.

“包二奶”一词源自广东话，指一个已婚男人的长期婚外恋行为。通常，他要为对方提供金钱、车子甚至别墅。到了90年代，人们的收入足以负担这些花费后，“包二奶”现象更加普遍。

包二奶的男人叫sugar daddy，"傍大款"就是 find a sugar daddy。"包养"：pay for a mistress 。“被包养”： financially dependent on a man who's having an affair with her。

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