指青年到外国去工作、留学to go abroad to work or study

• 眼下，这一代人，正掀起出国“洋插队”的热潮。

  Currently, a trend for going abroad for work or study is sweeping through this generation.

• 未曾想到，90年代初走出国门“洋插队”后，这些艺术全都派上了用场。

  One would never have thought that after one first went abroad to work or study at the beginning of the 1990s these arts would all be put to use.