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parachute kids //
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小留學生。
例句: Craig, a high school senior, lives a fantasy most teen-agers only dream. He and his sister Zoe, 14, live in a sprawling San Marino ranch house, their one chaperon an elderly servant who speaks no English...Craig and Zoe are examples of a phenomenon so familiar in the Chinese community that there is a nickname for it: "parachute kids" — dropped off to live in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia.
The parents, mostly from Taiwan and Hong Kong, want their children in more open, less cutthroat U.S. school systems, in which the chances of getting into college are much greater. (Los Angeles Times,洛杉磯時報)

其他: 名詞。我們對「小留學生」現象都知之甚詳,但知道其英文的人可能不多,這就是我們將此名詞收集在「英文新字新詞」的原因。亦寫成 parachute children。英文也有專門的名詞來稱呼小留學生的父母:astronaut parents -- 因為他們經常在港台與他們小孩被送往的國家 (主要是美國、加拿大和澳洲) 之間奔波,有如「空中飛人」。

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