词汇 | kim-s game |
词源 | Kim’s game. A parlor game in which the memory capacity of the players is tested. A number of objects are quickly shown to the participants, and they try to remember as many as they can, writing down the answers. The game is similar to one the epon- ymous hero plays in Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim (1901), gen- erally considered his masterpiece. |
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