Take Away English-Online Gaming 在线游戏
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：Take Away English
Online gamers control characters in a virtual world
UK online gamers are on red alert as they prepare for the arrival of the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour.
The tour, which takes in nine countries on four continents, is the first of its kind and demonstrates the desire amongst the pro-gaming community to be taken seriously as a professional sport.
For those who don’t know, online gamers compete against each other playing popular games such as Counter Strike, World of Warcraft, and Unreal Tournament. The games are played on PCs rather than games consoles.
Thousands of fans are expected to descend 1 upon Sheffield, a city in the north of England, to watch their favourite pro-gamers battle it out in a $1million tournament. One competitor who is sure to cause a splash is 23-year-old American, Jonathan Wendel, better known by gaming alias 2, “Fatal1ty”.
Despite his youth, “Fatal1ty” is a gaming legend, having won three Cyberathlete Professional League championships and become the world’s first Doom 3 3 world champion, for which he won $25000 prize money. He has also signed lucrative 4 sponsorship deals with companies which produce peripherals and accessories for gamers.
The UK is also fielding a strong team. Top UK player, David Treacy, a member of the British team Four-Kings, has already secured a place in the events grand final in the United States. The Four-Kings Counter Strike team have also made good progress taking second place overall in the first season of the tournament and winning $20000 in prize money.
The team have recently competed in the World E-Sports Games league in South Korea. The reception they received there demonstrates the growing status of pro-gamers. ‘They were mobbed for photographs and autographs before they played the season final’, says Four-Kings co-manager Phillip Wride.
Chinese gaming fanatics 5 don’t have long to wait for their opportunity to witness the spectacle of world-class gaming. The CPL World Tour comes to Beijing on October 13th with a top prize of $50000. So keep your finger on the trigger – maybe you could be the next world champion.
GLOSSARY 词汇表
online gamers
网络游戏手
Cyberathlete
电脑/网络运动员
PCs
个人电脑
battle it out
奋力争夺
gaming alias
游戏化名
peripherals
辅助设备
secured a place
进入比赛；获得比赛资格
autographs
亲笔签名
trigger
扳机
on red alert
处于紧急危险状态
pro-gaming
职业游戏
games consoles
游戏机
cause a splash
引人注目；引起轰动
lucrative sponsorship deals
利润丰厚的赞助交易
fielding a strong team
培养一个强大的队伍
mobbed
被包围、簇拥
witness the spectacle
目睹盛况
- I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
- We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。
- His real name was Johnson,but he often went by the alias of Smith.他的真名是约翰逊，但是他常常用化名史密斯。
- You can replace this automatically generated alias with a more meaningful one.可用更有意义的名称替换这一自动生成的别名。
- The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
- The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。