英语听力精选进阶版 6186
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力精选进阶版
Shamed on the Web 网上受稀落
The illegal copying and distribution of software, or piracy 1, costs the video game industry billions of dollars each year, and even threatens the future of game production.
However, one British-based video game publisher, Eidos, has hit back at the pirates in a novel way by not only spoiling their game-playing, but also shaming them on the internet.
Pirates who are playing illegal copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 find that crucial control functions in the game have been disabled, rendering 3 the game unplayable.
Players using a ‘cracked’ version of the game discover that the glide 4 function in the game does not work, causing the Batman character to fall to his death.
One such player complained about the so-called ‘bug 5’ on the support forum 6 pages of the developer’s website.
"I've got a problem when it's time to use Batman's glide in the game. When I hold, like it's said, to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding," complained the pirate.
But instead of receiving sympathy and support from other community users and the game’s development team, he received a stern ticking off from the forum’s community manager.
"The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free," wrote the Eidos community manager.
"It's not a bug in the game's code; it's a bug in your moral code," he added.
It appears that the Caped 7 Crusader’s war on crime extends beyond characters like the Joker to cheeky software pirates worldwide.
GLOSSARY 词汇表
piracy 盗版
video game publisher 电脑游戏出版商
hit back 反击
novel 新颖的
shaming 稀落，嘲讽
crucial control functions 主控功能
disabled 失灵的
rendering 致使
cracked 破解的
glide function 滑行功能
bug 病毒
support forum 提供支持的网上论坛
platform 平台
community users 同社团的使用者
stern ticking off 严厉的斥责
copy protection 版权保护措施
catch out 抓住
moral code 道德准则
Caped Crusader 披篷骑士
cheeky 厚颜无耻的
- The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
- They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。
- The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
- She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
- His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。
- We stood in silence watching the snake glide effortlessly.我们噤若寒蝉地站着，眼看那条蛇逍遥自在地游来游去。
- So graceful was the ballerina that she just seemed to glide.那芭蕾舞女演员翩跹起舞，宛如滑翔。
- There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
- The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
- They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
- The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。