[生活美語] The Traveling Frog
同學有在玩嗎?青蛙不會幫你考托福或雅思的， 更不可能會幫你拍英文考題的照片 (只有一些補習班才會)。
來，玩遊戲時至少假裝學習一下英文吧~
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1. Tabi Kaeru (Traveling Frog) 旅行青蛙
2. become a hit 爆紅
3. hard to explain 難以解釋
4. release/launch the game 釋出/推出了遊戲
5. game mechanics 遊戲機制
6. whatever will be, will be 一切随缘
7. it is not predetermined 並非按照预定
8. stone hut 小石屋
9. take a peek inside the house 偷瞄一下房子的裡面
10. take a snapshot 快照
11. be responsible for 負責…
12. collect clover 收集三葉草
13. purchase food needed on a journey 買旅行時需要的食物
14. travel for hours or days 旅行幾個小時時甚至幾天
15. provides snapshots and mementos of its journey 展示旅行時拍的照片和紀念品
16. rise to the top of… 升至…的第一名
17. be widely discussed on social media 在社群媒體上引起了廣泛的討論
18. show off photos of their frogs' adventures 曬照自己的青蛙的冒險經歷
19. the secret of the game's appeal 這款遊戲有吸引力的秘訣
20. not readily obvious 並非顯而易見
21. enjoy the feeling of traveling vicariously 喜歡間接旅行的感覺
22. a strong connection to child rearing 和撫養孩子聯繫密切
23. in Chinese, the word for "frog," wa, is a homophone for a word for "baby" 在中文裡，「蛙」和「娃」同音
24. understand the feeling of being a parent 明白了為人父母的感覺
25. embrace the ethos of the game 追隨這款遊戲的風氣
Full story: https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20180129/china-travel-frog-game/zh-hant/dual/
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遊戲成功的秘密: “You don’t need to do a lot of things, you don’t even need to think about anything,” said Yu Ting, a 28-year-old accountant in the northeastern city of Tianjin. “It’s not a competitive game, so it’s very relaxing.”
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生活美語 (Everyday English): https://goo.gl/nbmCGu
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Sources:
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20180129/china-travel-frog-game/zh-hant/dual/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/tabikaeru-a-mobile-game-about-a-traveling-frog-is-a-hit-in-china.html
http://www.e2say.com/articles/1453/
