Mouse potato 网虫
**** Hidden Message *****偶尔遇到“网虫”一词，要是直译成net bug，networm 很容易使人联想到计算机病毒。Mouse potato 是最地道的说法。Mouse指鼠标，Potato指薯条。就是右手握着鼠标上网，左手拿着薯条充饥的家伙。简称“网虫”。 任何语言都离不开文化背景。上面的解释就是这样的文化背景的诠释。
生活中我们经常说couch potato，此习语专指那些终日懒散在家、整日沉溺于电视的人。他们整天坐在沙发上，吃着薯条，眼睛一眨不眨地盯着电视屏幕，于是couch potato成了“电视迷”的代名词。
那mouse potato呢？大家能猜到它的意思吗？那些整天足不出户、手握鼠标(mouse)的人不正是“电脑迷”的真实写照吗？ Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as \"mouse potatoes\" enjoy working on computers. A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen. The description of mouse potato became popular in nineteen-ninety-three. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.
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