battle royale

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of battle royal. alt-of,alternative
    — Who’s going to occupy and fill that? That’s what we’re seeing with this battle royale, whether it’s Megyn Kelly or Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin or Candace Owens or Erika Kirk or whomever.
  2. A video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with last-man-standing gameplay.
    — Ian Bogost, a game designer, media professor and author of Play Anything, agrees: “There is no question in my mind that the eat-or-be-eaten, winner-take-all mentality of contemporary life is of a piece with the battle-royale genre,” he says.

词形变化

battles royale plural battle royales plural battle-royal alternative battle-royale alternative battle royal alternative

词源

The video game usage derives from the 2000 film Battle Royale, which has a similar premise to the video game genre.
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