Monopoly - Landlord's Game 完整註解
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《大富翁》是一款家喻戶曉的桌上遊戲，但卻很少人聽過它的發明者伊莉莎白·馬吉（Elizabeth Magie），更不知道她創造這個遊戲的初衷。如果 Elizabeth 親眼目睹了現今版《大富翁》的影響力，她應該會毫不猶豫把自己送進“監獄”吧。
Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion.
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Monopoly 本身有「壟斷」市場的意思。也是遊戲「大富翁」的英文。
capitalism 資本主義。capitalist 資本主義者
property 財產，文中指的是土地產。
tax 稅金。可以當動詞指「課稅」的意思
rent 租金
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‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught generations of children to buy up property, stack it with hotels, and charge fellow players sky-high rents for the privilege of accidentally landing there.
serve ...sb... well 意思是給某人帶來好處。文中意思就是前述的maxim會在遊戲中帶給你好處，能讓你贏得比賽。
privilege 特權、特殊待遇
第一段引用了湯姆歷險記的作者 Mark Twain的一句話點出「大富翁」這款遊戲的宗旨，Buy land - they aren't making it any more 。
作者 Kate Raworth 最後面用一種調侃的方式說到 "charge fellow players sky-high rents for the privilege of accidentally landing there"。privilege 指特權或特殊待遇，而在「大富翁」中，地主可以向其他玩家收取巨額的費用，以獲得能不小心停留在土地上的“特權”。