After last year’s “getting some soy sauce” and “doing push-ups” Web users in China have found a new catchphrase for 2009: “playing hidden cat” or what the English-speaking world calls “hide and seek.” (In Chinese “playing hidden cat” is 躲貓貓 pronounced “duo maomao.”)

After last year's "getting some say" and "doing push ups" web users in China have found a new catchphrase for 2009: "playing hidden cat" or what the English speaking world calls "hide and seek."

繼去年風(fēng)靡一時(shí)的“打醬油”和“俯臥撐”之后，步入2009年的中國(guó)網(wǎng)民又發(fā)現(xiàn)了新的流行詞“躲貓貓”。

After last year's popular "soy sauce" and "push ups", Chinese netizens in 2009 found a new popular word "hide and seek".

The story behind this new phrase comes from Jinning in southwest China’s Yunnan province where a 24-year-old prisoner died from a severe brain injury four days after being sent to the hospital. Local police said the brain injury occurred when the prisoner “bumped into a wall after being kicked by another prisoner while playing hidden cat.” (Report in Chinese.)

The story behind this new phrase comes from Jinning in southwest China’s Yunnan province where a 24-year-old prisoner died from a severe brain injury four days after being sent to the hospital. Local police said the brain injury occurred when the prisoner “bumped into a wall after being kicked by another prisoner while playing hidden cat.” (Report in Chinese.)

這個(gè)新詞背后的故事來(lái)自于中國(guó)云南省晉寧縣；當(dāng)?shù)匾晃?4歲的犯人腦部嚴(yán)重受傷，入院四天后死亡。當(dāng)?shù)鼐浇o出的解釋是，這位犯人在與獄友玩躲貓貓游戲時(shí)，遭到獄友踢打并不小心撞到墻壁，才導(dǎo)致腦部受傷。

The story behind the new word comes from Jinning County, Yunnan Province, China, where a 24-year-old inmate died four days after being hospitalized with a serious brain injury. The local police explained that when the prisoner was playing hide and seek with his cellmate, he was kicked by his cellmate and accidentally hit the wall, resulting in brain injury.

“Common sense makes it hard for the public to accept that a healthy young man died from playing a game…A trust-worthy third party must step in and dig out the truth for the public” reads one online commentary.

“Common sense makes it hard for the public to accept that a healthy young man died from playing a game… A trust-worthy third party must step in and dig out the truth for the public” reads one online commentary.

一條網(wǎng)上評(píng)論寫道，常識(shí)讓公眾很難接受一個(gè)健康的年輕人會(huì)死于玩游戲，必須有令人信服的第三方介入調(diào)查，為公眾挖出真相。

Common sense makes it hard for the public to accept that a healthy young person will die playing games, and a convincing third party must be involved in the investigation to find out the truth for the public, wrote an online comment.