Most of the time Second Life (virtual population 125,000) is a place where everyone is made to feel welcome. People who join this rapidly growing online community at www. secondlife.com create fanciful animated representations of themselves called avatars and are free to explore a vast 3-D landscape gorgeously rendered with oceans and mountain peaks and teeming with eclectic structures designed and built by residents. But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black-and-white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court. Yaffle was completely baffled. "At first I thought it was a joke," he says. "But I realized that I could not teleport out of that area, and I wasn't sure what to do."
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机译：大多数时候，《第二人生》（虚拟人口125,000）是一个让每个人都感到宾至如归的地方。通过www加入这个快速发展的在线社区的人们。 secondlife.com创造了自己幻想的动画化身，称为化身，并可以自由探索广阔的3-D风景，用海洋和山峰进行华丽渲染，并使用居民设计和建造的折衷结构。但是，当一个自称Nimrod Yaffle的Second Lifer试图在他早年登录社区时，他发现自己的头像被隔离在一个超现实的，孤立的风景中：无数排玉米，在黑暗的天空下散布开了，别无其他除了一台小型红色拖拉机和一台黑白电视机，它们正在播放1940年的电影《法庭上的男孩》（Boy in Court）外，其他物体都看不到。耶夫完全不知所措。他说：“起初我以为这是个玩笑。” “但是我意识到我无法转移到那个地区，而且我不确定该怎么办。”
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