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• re-issue
  表示“（书）重印；（唱片）重新发行；（电影）重映”，英文解释为“If something such as a book, CD, or movie is reissued after it has not been available for some time, it is published or produced again.” 此处显然是指游戏的重新发行。

• take sb/sth by storm
  表示“在（某处）大获成功；完全征服（一群人）”，英文解释为“to be suddenly extremely successful in a place or with a group of people”举个🌰：
  Her performance has taken the critics by storm.
  她的表演完全征服了评论界。

• fuel speculation 引发猜测

• shoot to the top 名列前茅

• feature作动词，表示“以…为特色；由…主演；以…为主要组成”，英文解释为“to include a particular person or thing as a special feature”，作动词往往可以理解为“有...”（功能/特色），举个🌰：
  Many of the hotels featured in the brochure offer special deals for weekend breaks.
  小册子列举的多家旅馆都有周末假日特别优待。
  The film features Cary Grant as a professor.
  这部电影由卡里·格兰特饰演一位教授。

• 表示“（舒适、温暖或安全地）躲进，钻入；偎依”，英文解释为“to move yourself into a position where you can feel warm, comfortable, or safe”举个🌰：
  Suddenly shy, our young daughter burrowed her head into my shoulder.
  我们的小女儿突然感到害羞了，将头靠在我的肩膀上。

• 1990s-themed restaurants
  以20世纪90年代为主题的

• 表示“轻易赚（很多钱）；赚大钱”，英文解释为“to earn or get a large amount of money”举个🌰：
  He rakes in over $200,000 a year.
  他一年能挣20多万美元。

• sb/sth's answer to sb/sth
  表示“与…相当（或同样好）的人（或物）；…的对应物”，英文解释为“If something or someone is the answer to another thing or person, it is or they are considered to be similar or as good.”举个🌰：
  The Space Needle is Seattle's answer to the Eiffel Tower.
  西雅图的太空针塔堪比艾菲尔铁塔。

• decompress
  原意表示“（使）失压，（使）卸压；（使）减压，（使）解压”，英文解释为“to reduce in pressure or return to the original lower pressure, or to cause something to do this”，此处引申为表示“（使）放松”，相当于relax，举个🌰：
  After two weeks' hiking we'll need a few days to decompress.
  徒步旅行两个星期后，我们将需要几天来轻松一下。

• sanity
  1）表示“明智；理智；通情达理”，英文解释为“the state of being sensible and reasonable”举个🌰：
  After a series of road accidents the police pleaded for sanity among drivers.
  在发生一系列交通事故之后，警方提请驾驶人要谨慎驾车。

2）表示“精神健全；神志正常”，英文解释为“the state of having a normal healthy mind”举个🌰：
His behaviour was so strange that I began to doubt his sanity.
他行为怪异，我有点怀疑他是否神智正常。

• He perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
  他注意到远处有个很小的身影。
  How do the French perceive the British?
  法国人是如何看待英国人的？

• Psychological problems very often underlie apparently physical disorders.
  心理问题常常是明显生理疾病的深层原因。

• His face took on an unhealthy whitish hue.
  他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。

• discount
  表示“认为…不重要；对…不全信；低估；忽视，忽略，不理会”，英文解释为“to think or say that sth is not important or not true”举个🌰：
  However, traders tended to discount the rumour.
  但是，商人们倾向于不理会这个传闻。