English Dictionary

Chinese whispers

名詞

イギリス英語 不可算名詞 広義

(games, chiefly UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.

日本語の意味

複数人が順番に耳打ちで一つの文を伝えていき、最初と最後で内容が大きく変わることを楽しむゲーム（伝言ゲーム）。

At the team-building event we played Chinese whispers, and everyone laughed when the original phrase came back hilariously distorted.

チームビルディングのイベントで伝言ゲームをして、元のフレーズが面白おかしく変わって戻ってきたときに皆が笑った。

意味（1）

(games, chiefly UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.

This is no doubt the reason why children play Chinese Whispers. One child whispers a message to another and it travels around the circle of children, only to be revealed by the last member of the chain.

意味（2）

(by extension) Any situation where something is changed or misunderstood as a result of passing through successive people or processes.

Rightly famed for their year 2000 project, RMX//A Visual Remix Project, for which they remixed each others' work in a Chinese Whispers-style process, they have also printed T-shirts with their eye-catching graphics […]