核心畫面

One way to hold gaming: it is game with -ing on the end, so it names the playing rather than the thing played. Picture someone sitting down to a game with something riding on it. What is riding on it changes from sense to sense — a score and an evening with friends, the money on the table, or a whole set of rules that somebody has decided to play to win.

gaming 可以想成 game 加上 -ing:講的是「玩」這件事,不是那一款遊戲。畫面是一個人坐下來玩一場,而且更多收起gaming 可以想成 game 加上 -ing:講的是「玩」這件事,不是那一款遊戲。畫面是一個人坐下來玩一場,而且有東西押在上面。押的是什麼,每個意思不一樣。可能是分數和一個晚上的時間。可能是桌上的錢。也可能是一整套制度——有人決定把規則當成遊戲,照著規則玩到贏。

Two branches

真的在玩一場遊戲

最直接的一層:有人真的坐下來玩。差別只在玩的是哪一種遊戲,以及桌上押了什麼。

noun · B1

The activity of playing video games. It covers games played on a computer, a phone or a game console, and it is very often used for playing with other people over the internet.

打電動

把制度當成遊戲來玩

這一層沒有遊戲,只有規則。但是玩的姿態一樣:看清楚規則怎麼算分,然後照著算分的方式去贏。

noun · C1

The practice of using the rules of a system in a clever, planned way so that they give you what you want, even though that is not what the rules were made for.

鑽規則漏洞

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

gamingnoun/ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/

  • 1

    The playing of a game.

    • […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
    • The US gaming industry, in a pamphlet called Demystifying Slot Machines […], argues that "slot manufacturers need to build devices for a society with a decreasing attention span and an increasing demand for exciting, fast-paced entertainment, all in a marketplace overflowing with competing entertainment options".
  • 2

    The playing of a game.

  • 3

    The playing of a game.

  • 4

    Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。