リーダーズダイジェスト３月号に掲載されていた "MAROONED ON DRAGON ISLAND" と題された記事の一節です。
The sky was blistering and there was no fresh water. Charlotte imagined fridge-loads of Sprite but it didn't help. She slumped in the shade of a rock and played noughts and crosses in the sand with Kathy.
題名にあるDRAGONは体長が２～３mにもなるコモドオオトカゲ（Komodo dragon）の事ですが、何だろうと思ったのは "played noughts and crosses" の方です。 文字通りに言うとマルバツゲームとなりますが、幼稚で直ぐ飽きる "tick-tack-toe/tic-tac-toe" とは違うゲームは何でしょう？ 分からないので辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a 3-by-3 board; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
なーんだ、"tic-tac-toe" を英国では "noughts and crosses" と言うのですね。
The sky was blistering and there was no fresh water. Charlotte imagined fridge-loads of Sprite but it didn't help. She slumped in the shade of a rock and played noughts and crosses in the sand with Kathy.
題名にあるDRAGONは体長が２～３mにもなるコモドオオトカゲ（Komodo dragon）の事ですが、何だろうと思ったのは "played noughts and crosses" の方です。 文字通りに言うとマルバツゲームとなりますが、幼稚で直ぐ飽きる "tick-tack-toe/tic-tac-toe" とは違うゲームは何でしょう？ 分からないので辞書を引きます。
OneLook Quick Definitions: a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a 3-by-3 board; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
なーんだ、"tic-tac-toe" を英国では "noughts and crosses" と言うのですね。
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