Have you ever wondered why a dartboard looks the way it does?
A long time ago, people used to use stumps of trees as their dartboards. When you cut down a tree and look at the stump, you can see that the wood has lots of dark rings in it. Long ago, the wood dried out and people kept throwing darts at the stump, the wood started to crack from the center to the sides. That is why modern dartboards have rings and lines.
The very center of a dartboard has a small red dot. This dot is called the bull's-eye. When you play darts, you want to hit the bull's-eye because you get a lot of points. You can also say that you "hit the bull's-eye" whenever you make the best choice or do something exactly right. For example, if you buy your mom exactly what she wanted for her birthday, you could say that you "hit the bull's-eye." (Marc Langer, staff writer)
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你可曾想過為何標靶長這樣？
很久以前，人們曾用樹樁當標靶。當你把一棵樹砍倒後，看看樹樁，就可以看到為數眾多的深色圓環，當時木頭乾掉，人們持續朝樹樁射飛鏢，木頭就會從中間向旁邊裂開，這就是為何現代標靶有圓環和線條。
標靶的正中心有個小紅點，這個點叫做「bull's-eye」，射飛鏢時要射中紅心才能得很多分。當你做出最佳選擇或是把一件事做到完全正確時，也能說「hit the bull's-eye」，例如，假如你買給母親的生日禮物正是她想要的東西，也能說「hit the bull's-eye」。 （翻譯：鄭湘儀）
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