Anybody who has played (or watched their children play) life-simulation computer games, such as "SimCity" or "The Sims", will know how engrossing they can be. Countless hours are spent creating an intricate synthetic world, be it a house or a whole city, inventing characters that speak a nonsense tongue known as Simlish, controlling their actions and sometimes visiting disaster upon them. A similar craze is gripping Brussels: call it SimEurope.
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机译：任何玩过（或看着孩子玩过）模拟生活的计算机游戏的人，例如“ SimCity”或“ The Sims”，都会知道他们的魅力。无论是房屋还是整个城市，都要花费无数小时来创建一个复杂的合成世界，发明会说些废话的人物，称为Simlish，控制他们的行为，有时还会对他们造成灾难。布鲁塞尔也有类似的热潮：称之为SimEurope。
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