
No 10: Full Confidence is the game all the lobby journalists(院外记者,指报道议会政治的记者) and backbenchers(后座议员,指普通议员) are playing on their phones. Westminster hasn’t been so united by an app since the early 2010s, when everyone was trying to figure out(弄明白,理解) what David Cameron saw in Angry Birds.
《No 10:完全信任》是所有院外记者和后座议员都在手机上玩的游戏。自2010年代初以来,威斯敏斯特还没有被一款应用如此团结过,那时大家都在试图弄明白戴维·卡梅伦在《愤怒的小鸟》中看到了什么。
The game is quite engrossing(引人入胜的): you are the prime minister, taking office, and your name is Yusuf Dunmore. Popularity starts high in all the important areas – cabinet, backbenchers, the media, the public. But from there, every decision you are called upon to make, from nominating a chancellor to your answers at PMQs, confronts you with an invidious choice between one crisis and another.(但从那以后,你被要求做出的每一个决定,从提名财政大臣到首相问答中的回答,都让你面临在一种危机和另一种危机之间做出令人反感的抉择。)
这款游戏相当引人入胜:你扮演首相,上任执政,你的名字是优素福·邓莫尔。在所有的关键领域——内阁、后座议员、媒体、公众——你的支持率一开始都很高。但从那以后,你被要求做出的每一个决定,从提名财政大臣到你在首相问答中的回答,都让你面临在一种危机和另一种危机之间做出令人反感的抉择。
I was ready to resign in my third week – still technically the honeymoon period(蜜月期,指新官上任初期). The bad faith was all too overwhelming: an opposition that howled blue murder(大喊大叫,大声抗议) over things it didn’t even disagree with; a press that misconstrued(曲解,误解) for fun; a public with the aggregated(合计的,总体的) emotional stability of a three-year-old who hadn’t had a nap. Marshalling all that while maintaining your own probity, when you had only intended to be 15% honest in the first place, seemed like more than any decent person could stand.(在维持自身正直的同时还要应对这一切,而当你原本只打算保持15%的诚实度时,这似乎超出了任何正派人士所能忍受的范围。) None of this is to cast any shade on the game itself, which is very fun.
我在第三周就准备辞职了——严格来说,那仍是蜜月期。恶意实在令人难以承受:一个反对党对它们甚至并不反对的事情大喊大叫;一个以曲解为乐的媒体;一个情绪稳定性加起来相当于一个没睡午觉的三岁小孩的公众。在维持自身正直的同时还要应对这一切,而当你原本只打算保持15%的诚实度时,这似乎超出了任何正派人士所能忍受的范围。这一切都不是为了贬低游戏本身,它非常有趣。