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🔥Everybody’s Playing ‘Animal Crossing’
全民「動森」
😸On March 20, smack in the middle of the quarantine, Nintendo dropped a timely new $60 title, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.” Its console, the Switch, was suddenly a lot harder to find.
在3月20日疫情隔離期中，任天堂（Nintendo）適時發布了售價60美元的新遊戲《集合啦！動物森友會》（Animal Crossing: New Horizons，簡稱「動森」）。其遊戲主機Switch因此忽然變得一機難求。
-quarantine: 隔離；檢疫
🌴The game is a life simulation escapist fantasy, where you build up your own island, plant money trees, chase butterflies and sell turnips on the “stalk market,” among other things. You can also visit friends’ islands, and communicate using the in-game text or voice chat.
這款遊戲創造了一種逃避現實的模擬人生幻想，您可以在遊戲中搭建自己的島嶼，種植搖錢樹，捕捉蝴蝶，去交易市場出售大頭菜等等。你還可以去朋友的島做客，使用遊戲內置的文字或語音聊天系統進行交流。
-escapist: 逃避現實者
-turnip: 蕪菁；蕪菁甘藍
-stalk: 莖；葉柄
🎂The E-for-everyone-rated title seemed to appeal to all types: young and old, newbies and experienced gamers alike. Celebrities including Chrissy Teigen, Elijah Wood and Guy Fieri are on board. Its low-stress gameplay, combined with nationwide stay-at-home orders, led to the highest spending on videogame products for a March month since 2008. More than double the number of Nintendo Switch devices were sold in March 2020 compared with March 2019, according to analytics firm NPD Group. Nintendo reported over 11 million titles of “Animal Crossing” sold. The company announced it would release free game updates throughout the year. (Next up: “Wedding Season,” celebrating the nuptials of a pair of lovestruck alpacas.)
這款面向所有年齡段的遊戲老少咸宜，無論你是遊戲新手還是經驗豐富的玩家。包括克莉絲汀·泰根（Chrissy Teigen）、伊利亞·伍德（Elijah Wood）和蓋菲里（Guy Fieri）在內的許多名人也在玩。沒什麼壓力的遊戲玩法，加上全國範圍內實施的居家令，使得今年3月成為自2008年以來在電子遊戲上花費最高的3月。分析公司NPD Group稱，與2019年3月相比，2020年3月任天堂Switch設備的銷量翻了一倍。任天堂稱動森的銷量超過1100萬份。該公司宣布今年全年將發布免費遊戲更新。（下一款等待出品的是《婚禮季》，慶祝一對熱戀羊駝情侶的婚禮。）
-on board: 在(船、車或飛機)上，(這裡是說大家都在玩)
-compare with: 跟…相比
🌳“Animal Crossing” became a perfect proxy for everything we couldn’t do on lockdown. It’s open-ended. There’s no final level to conquer or ultimate challenge to overcome. You can roam around your island paradise indefinitely—which is probably why so many of us will be hooked long after the current crisis subsides.
動森替我們實現了被關在家裡做不到的那些事。遊戲是開放式的，沒有需要征服的最終關卡，也沒有需要攻克的終極挑戰。你可以不受限制地在島嶼天堂漫遊，這可能就是為什麼在當前危機消退很久之後，許多人仍會被吸引的原因。
-proxy: 代理、取代物
-conquer: 征服,克服
-ultimate: 最後的，最終的
-roam: 漫步；漫遊；流浪
-indefinitely: 不定地；無限期地
-hook: 引（人）上鉤
-subside: 退落；消退；平息
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B. inevitably / trapped
C. indefinitely / hooked
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