play up

英[pleɪʌp] 美[pleɪʌp]

v. 强调；加油；用劲；鼓吹；<英>调皮；折磨

placable adj.易慰抚的；宽大的；温和的
placage n.(建筑物的)薄饰面
placard n.招贴；海报；标语牌v.张贴布告；公布某事
placate v.抚慰；平息；和解
placatory adj.抚慰的；怀柔的；融洽的

Verb:

move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent;
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior;
"She is playing up to the chairman"

1. Don't let the pupils play up.: 别让小学生淘气。

2. She knows how to play up to the boss.: 她知道怎么讨好上司。

3. He wanted two good actresses to play up to him.: 他想要两个出色的女演员担任配角。

4. I'd love to play up front but I'd play anywhere for the team.: 我希望能出现在前锋线上，不过为了球队我可以踢任何位置。

5. He tried to play down my part in the work and play up his own.: 他试图贬低我在工作中的作用而夸大他自己的作用。

6. You can play up to 30 games simultaneously.: 你可以同时进行高达30个个游戏。

7. Play up personal strengths and play down competitions.: 强调个人优点而降低竞争的重要性。

8. Did you want to play up that distinction in Source Code?: 你准备在《源代码》中体现区别吗？

9. But Colombia's desire to play up the deterrent effect of the agreement has backfired.: 然而，哥伦比亚想要借由协议产生吓阻效应已经出现不良后果。

10. It makes a lot of smart choices in what to play up and what events can be skimmed over.: 应该播什么，跳过什么，影片做出了许多明智的决择。

11. Expect to play up to 11 hours at APT side events and 9hours for the APT Asian Series side events。: 在APT常规赛的附属赛事中，这种比赛通常会进行11个小时，而APT亚洲系列赛附属赛事则要进行9个小时。

12. At Apple, company officials play up another benefit of green PCs: their reduced carbon output.: 在苹果公司，管理人士则宣传绿色个人电脑的另外一个好处：可以减少碳排放。

13. Now here's an interesting question: to what extent do you play up to these expectations about how they view you?: 那么这有个很有趣的问题：你在何种程度上会表现得符合这些看法呢？

14. He said that the six parties did not sit together to play up their differences and rather sought ways to solve problems.: 他说，六方这次坐到一起，不是为了扩大和渲染分歧，而是在承认分歧的基础上，寻找解决问题的途径，开辟解决问题的前景。

15. We often hear that the key to us staying united is to downplay theological difference and to play up sharing the Gospel.: 我们常常听人说保持合一的关键就是淡化神学分歧。

16. CLIMATE change is a pretty scary topic, and those who write about it have, for the most part, been happy to play up the scariness.: 气候变暖是个挺让人恐慌的话题，而那些写这话题的人，很大一部分是乐于突出这种危机的。

17. He sits just in front, wins balls, breaks play up, tracks players and we all know now he can score goals after that strike at the weekend.: 他的位置很靠前，努力的争球、突破、防守，当上周末他起脚射门的时候，我们都知道他可以得分。

18. We play up at Bill Gates's house periodically, and those games will start at 2 in the afternoon, break for dinner, then finish at 11 at night.: 我们定期在比尔·盖茨家打牌，一般从下午两点开始，晚餐时间休息一会儿，然后继续打，晚上11点钟结束。

19. It seems sometimes that Mr Ostler, fascinated by ancient uses of language, wanted to write a different sort of book but was persuaded by his publisher to play up the English angle.: 热衷于语言的历史用途的奥斯勒先生时常萌发一个想法，写与众不同的书，而出版商规劝他要着眼于英语的角度。

20. We can always expect a software company to play up the advantages of newer code over older code, but Mozilla is putting a lot of weight into the development of its next version of Firefox.: 作为用户，我们一直希望一家软件企业能够强调新旧代码的优势对比，但是，Mozilla却花了很大的心血去开发Firefox下一个版本了。

21. Come on. Let's play. Who's up?: 算了我们继续玩，下一个是谁？

22. He succinctly summed up his manifesto as "Work hard, train hard and play hard.": 他把自己的宣言简明地概括成了“努力工作，努力训练，努力玩耍。”

23. I would line up my toys on this windowsill and play.: 我要把玩具在这个窗台上排成一行来玩。

24. Current thinking suggests that toxins only have a small part to play in the build-up of cellulite.: 流行的观点认为毒素只对脂肪团形成起很小的作用。

25. The play was built up to be a masterpiece but I found it very disappointing.: 那部戏被捧为杰作，可我却大失所望。

26. The play was built up to be a masterpiece but I found it very disappointing.: 那部戏被捧为杰作，可我却大失所望。

用作动词 (v.)

She tried to play down his part in the affair and play up her own.
她极力贬低他在这一事件中的作用而抬高自己的作用。
Play up, comrades.
加油啊，同志们！
The old wound has been playing up again lately.
近来旧伤又发作了。

play up to 企图博得 ... ...
play up 强调

【近义词】

highlight 强调
underline 在…下面划线...
emphasize 强调
spotlight 照明灯
suck up 吸收
foreground 前景
shine up 格外注意

【反义词】

play down 降低

playe play play adagio play guitar play around playclothes play fellow play a joke play-over play-book play footsy play bridge

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