真的軍隊跑一遍
這一組把畫面放在軍隊身上：人真的動、裝備真的移動，只有敵人是假的。目的永遠是測試，不是取勝。
noun · B2
A practice battle in which real soldiers act out a fight against a pretend enemy, so that an army can test its plans and see how well they would work.
軍事演習
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a battle shrunk down to a size you can run safely. There are two sides, a set of rules, a start and an end — everything a battle has except a real enemy. Because it is only a model, you can stop it, look at what went wrong, and run it again. That is why English calls it a game even when the people doing it are entirely serious.
可以想成：把一場戰爭縮小到你能安全跑一遍的大小。有兩方、有規則、有開始和結束，該有的都有，只少了真正的敵人。因為只是…更多收起
可以想成：把一場戰爭縮小到你能安全跑一遍的大小。有兩方、有規則、有開始和結束，該有的都有，只少了真正的敵人。因為只是模型，所以可以喊停、看哪裡出錯、再跑一次。英文之所以用 game 這個字，重點不在好玩，而在「照規則進行、可以重來」。順著這個畫面看，這個詞的幾個用法就連起來了：軍隊拿它測計畫，玩家拿它在桌上較量，動詞則是「拿某個計畫去跑一遍」。Two branches
桌上和螢幕上的較量
同樣的模型，改成為了好玩而跑。規則、雙方、勝負都還在，只是縮到一張桌子或一個螢幕上。
noun · B2
A game played for fun, in which people move small models of soldiers, horses and guns around a table by a set of rules, or play the same kind of battle game on a computer.
戰棋遊戲