- 参加比赛，同…比赛；对抗：
We are playing the Red Star School Team next Sunday.
下星期日我们将同红星校队比赛。
- 【体育】
- 【体育】
- 玩，做(游戏)：
Let's play doctors and nurses.
我们一起玩医生和护士的游戏。
The children are playing soldiers.
孩子们正在玩打仗游戏。
- 开(玩笑)；嘲弄；玩弄；耍(恶作剧)造成，引起：
Super-power is playing power politics.
超级大国正在玩弄强权政治。
to play havoc
造成破坏
- 赌；打赌；对…打赌：
He played his last dollar.
他把最后一元钱都赌上了。
- [美国英语]在…基础上行动：
to play a hunch
有一种预感
- [美国英语] (在证券市场上)投机：
to play the stock-market
买卖股票
- 使跳动；使闪动；使飘动；使挥动：
He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.
他向飞机打探照灯。
- (接连)发射；使(泉水等)喷射：
The firemen played their hoses on the burning building at the street corner.
消防队员将水龙带对着街角燃烧的大楼喷射。
- 【牌戏】出牌；【象棋】走动(棋子)：
Shall I play my ace or queen?
我出A还是出Q?
- 演出；上演(戏剧等)；扮演，饰演：
They are playing “Carmen”at Capital Theatre.
他们在首都剧场上演《卡门》。
- (指音乐)演奏；奏乐带领(迎送)：
He can play nearly every musical instrument.
他几乎能演奏每一件乐器。
- (留声机、唱片等)放音乐，开(收音机)：
I will play you a tape of his speech.
我将给你放他的讲话录音。
She plays her radio all day long.
她整天开收音机。
- 装扮；充当；装得像…：
to play the hero
逞英雄
- 进行；做干：
They're always playing the fool.
他们总是做蠢事。
- (灵敏地或用劲地)使用；挥舞(刀、剑等)：
to play a good fork and knife
大吃
- (作决定或办事时)把注下在…上；凭借：
His success plays his luck instead of his skill.
他取得的成功靠的是运气而不是技术。
- 对待，处置，处理：
The senior revolutionary can play the situation coldly.
资深的革命者冷静地对付局势。
- [美国英语]利用
played him for a fool
利用他干蠢事
- 让上钩的(鱼)不停地拉动钩线而致疲乏；得当地操纵：
He played the poor fish until it rolled, belly up, from exhaustion.
他让那可怜的鱼儿挣扎，直到肚子朝天、精疲力竭为止。