I don’t think Minecraft’s chickens get enough credit. When it comes to the game’s farmyard animals, they’re the most underrated of the lot. Cows give leather for armor and milk to void potion effects. Sheep give wool – crucial for making an early-game bed. Pigs look at you in that adorable way. But the chickens – what are you gonna do with feathers and eggs, besides terrorizing your friends with it?
我不觉得 Minecraft 的鸡得到了足够的赞誉。当提到游戏里的农场动物时，它们是最被低估的。牛能提供制作护甲的皮革和消除药水效果的牛奶。羊能提供羊毛 – 对制作游戏前期的床十分重要。猪能用可爱的眼神看着你。但是鸡 – 除了能吓唬你朋友，你还能打算用它们的羽毛和鸡蛋做什么？
Luckily, Mojang Studios has vested in me a great power – the power to decide which animal in Minecraft’s diverse ecosystem will be crowned mob of the month. So this is where the fightback begins. The start of the chicken’s long road back to becoming the ruler of the coop, the baron of the barnyard, the monarch of the meadow, the... [Editor: get on with it!]
幸运的是，Mojang 工作室给予了我强大的权力 – 决定哪个在 Minecraft 多元生态系统中的动物能加冕本月生物的权利。所以这便是反击战的开端。这漫长之路的开端，就让鸡成为鸡笼的统者，谷仓的男爵，牧场的帝…[主编: 憋讲恁那废话！]
Chickens. Chickens are our mob of the month! Bwok!
鸡。鸡就是我们的本月生物！邦邦!
These feathery cluckers have been roaming the Overworld for a very long time – since July 2010 to be exact, when the seventh Seecret Update added them to the game. That makes them as old as jukeboxes and music discs. And they nearly broke the game! They’re found in most grassy biomes, including most forests. You won’t tend to find them on mountains, in deserts, or in the snow.
这些浑身羽毛咯咯叫的家伙们已在主世界漫游了很长时间 – 确切地，从 2010 年 7 月，即第七个 秘密更新 被添加至游戏时。这也让它们跟唱片机和唱片一样老。而且它们几乎毁了这个游戏！它们主要栖息在覆盖草的群系，包括大多数森林。在山上、沙漠里或是雪地里，你往往找不到它们。
Chickens are simple creatures – they spend most of their time pecking around in search of seeds, and if you come along holding seeds then they’ll happily follow you around instead. You can feed them those seeds to breed them.They can’t fly exactly, but they can flap their wings in midair so that they fall slow enough to avoid fall damage. Adult chickens will lay an egg every five to ten minutes, which can be thrown to (sometimes) hatch a new chicken.
鸡是种简单的生物 – 它们通常花时间啄来啄去找种子吃，且当你手持种子时会开心地跟随你。你可以用这些种子繁殖它们。确切地说，它们不会飞，但它们能在半空中拍打它们地翅膀以缓慢下落，从而避免摔落伤害。成年鸡每五至十分钟会下一颗蛋，投掷这些蛋 (有时) 能够孵化一只全新的小鸡。
There’s something else I need to make you aware of. Minecraft’s baby zombie population has somehow figured out a way to ride chickens, and zombified piglins have taken this trick to the Nether, too. These terrifying cavalry can run like the wind, fit through tiny gaps, and don’t take fall damage. If you hear a late-night cluck then be on your guard.
还有别的一件事我要提醒你。Minecraft 的幼年僵尸不知怎的找到了一种骑上鸡的方法，而且幼年僵尸猪灵也把这个把戏带到了下界。这些恐怖的骑士能像风一般奔跑，能穿梭极小的空袭，还能不受到摔落伤害。如果你在半夜听到声鸡叫，就得保持警惕了。
Did you know that chickens exist in the real world too? Madness, I know! They were domesticated about 8,000 years ago from a species of tropical fowl living in Southeast Asia. They made it to India about 7,000 years ago, the Middle East about 4,000 years ago, and Europe about 2,700 years ago. They didn’t arrive in North America until about 500 years ago, though.
你知道鸡也存在于现实世界中吗？嗐，我当然知道！它们大约在 8000 年前 由生活在东南亚的热带家禽驯化而来。它们大约在 7000 年前流通至印度，4000 年前流通至中东，随后约 2700 年前被送至欧洲。然而直到 500 年前它们才到达北美洲。
Today, chickens are the most common bird on the planet – there are about 26.5 billion of them, meaning that there are more than three times as many chickens as people. They’re mostly kept for food purposes – eggs and meat. A hen bred for laying can produce more than 300 eggs per year, and if they’re not slaughtered then they tend to live between five and ten years.
今天，鸡是这个星球上最常见的鸟类 – 约有 265 亿只，意味着它们比人口数量的三倍还要多。它们绝大多数用于食物生产 – 鸡蛋和鸡肉。一只用于产卵的母鸡一年可以生产 300 颗蛋，且未被屠宰的话能够存活约五至十年。
Chickens are also found widely in folklore, religion and literature. They’re one of the twelve creatures of the Chinese zodiac. They’re associated with the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu, and the Hindu war god Kartikeya. They feature in the Yoruba creation story, and foretell Ragnarök in Norse mythology. They’re a “symbol of light” for Zoroastrians, and they pop up plenty of times in the Bible.
鸡也常见于民间创作、宗教和文学。它们是中国十二生肖之一，也与神道教的天照大神、印度教的战神卡尔凯蒂耶有关。它们在约鲁巴语创作故事、挪威神话中的拉格纳克预言中占有地位。它们是琐罗亚斯德教教徒中“光的象征”，也在圣经中出现过多次。
We’ve not seen Minecraft’s chickens pop up yet in the writings of the villagers or the illagers. But if the evidence of the real world is anything to go by, then surely it’s only a matter of time!
我们从没见过 Minecraft 的鸡出现在村民或是灾厄村民的写作中。但要是现实世界中的考据能成为依据，那肯定只是时间问题！
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