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Change log entry 61368
Processed by: goldyn_chyld (2016-04-23 06:44:57 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 58272 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
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海待
1. {jocular} students returned from overseas but unemployed (lit., "awaiting" work, a pun on hǎidài 海帶/海带 "seaweed"
2. modeled after the word hǎi-guī 海歸/海归)

LA ~ 指海外歸國的待業人員。
例 「未能就業的海待人口逐年增加」。

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Diff:
# 海待 海待 [hai3 dai4] /student who has returned from overseas but is yet to find a job (pun on 海帶|海带[hai3 dai4], just as 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1] is a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1])/
+ 海待 海待 [hai3 dai4] /student who has returned from overseas but is yet to find a job (pun on 海帶|海带[hai3 dai4])/cf. 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1]/
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