中英對照讀新聞》A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish1名紐西蘭人學了1年才贏得西班牙語版「拼字遊戲」世界冠軍,但他不會說西班牙語
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A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title — despite the language barrier that stopped him from chatting with his opponents.
1名紐西蘭男子首度參與競爭激烈的西班牙語版「拼字遊戲」,結果拿下該圖版遊戲的西班牙語版世界冠軍,但他不會說西班牙語,語言的障礙也使他不能與其他對手聊天。
Nigel Richards, a professional player who holds five English-language world titles, won the Spanish world Scrabble championships in Granada, Spain, in November, losing only one game out of 24. Richards speaks no Spanish and started memorizing the language’s Scrabble word list a year ago, his friend Liz Fagerlund -– a New Zealand Scrabble official -– told The Associated Press.
奈傑爾‧理查茲是1名專業玩家,曾奪得5座英語版「拼字遊戲」世界冠軍,他在今年11月於西班牙格拉納達贏得西班牙語版「拼字遊戲」世界冠軍,在24場比賽中僅輸1場。他的朋友麗茲‧法格隆(紐西蘭拼字協會會長)對美聯社表示,理查茲不會說西班牙語,他在1年前開始熟背西班牙語版「拼字遊戲」的單詞表。
新聞辭典
title:名詞,標題、書名、資格、冠軍。例句:The title of Evelyn Waugh’s first novel was "Decline and Fall".(英國作家伊夫林‧沃的第一部小說名為《衰落與瓦解》。)
memorize:動詞,記住、背熟。例句:When I was at school, we were required to memorize a poem every week.(唸書的時候,老師要求我們每週背1首詩。)