Cosplay是英文costume play的简略写法,其动词为cos,而玩cosplay的人则一般被称为coser也称(cosplayer)。从一般意义上来说的cosplay最早的中文译名是出自台湾,意思是指角色扮演。但因为这种译法与游戏中的 Cosplay is a brief description of costume play in English, the verb is cos, while those who play cosplay are generally known as coser (cosplayer). From the general sense of the earliest Chinese translation of cosplay from Taiwan, the meaning is the role-playing. But because of this translation and game