play out

英 [pleɪ aʊt]

美 [pleɪ aʊt]

（使）（戏剧性事件）逐渐发生; （使）展开

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （使）（戏剧性的事件）逐渐发生；（使）展开
  If a dramatic eventis played out, it gradually takes place.
  1. Her union reforms were played out against a background of rising unemployment...
     她对工会的改革是在失业率不断上升的背景下展开的。
  2. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.
     这部电影和现实生活中发生的一系列戏剧性事件有着诡异的巧合之处。

英英释义

verb

• become spent or exhausted
  1. The champion's strength played out fast
• play to a finish
  1. We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last
• perform or be performed to the end
  1. How will the election drama be played out?
• deplete
  1. exhaust one's savings
  2. We quickly played out our strength
  Synonym:run downexhaustsaptire

双语例句

• It's good for children to play out of doors.
  在户外玩耍对孩子们有好处。
• We play out an imaginary confrontation in our mind.
  我们的脑海中浮现出一种想象的冲突。
• The question remains compelling: What is wisdom, and how does it play out in individual lives?
  相关问题至今仍难以捉摸，引人深思：什么是智慧？它在一个人的生活中发挥了怎样的作用？
• If my life is a movie, you are the play out of the advertising.
  假如我的人生是一部片子，你就是那弹出来的广告。
• Mother and father play out the roles assigned to them.
  母亲和父亲扮演分派给他们的角色。
• And I honestly do not know how this is going to play out.
  老实说，我不知道这会怎样发展下去。
• Then fucking great Chopin also play out of my sorrow, Beethoven also just play.
  再牛逼的肖邦也弹不出我的悲伤、贝多芬也只是弹弹而已。
• I'm not quite sure where, on balance, we should say how these things play out.
  我不是很肯定，总的来说，这些事情是怎么进行的。
• How do you think China's class war will play out?
  读者们，你们觉得中国的阶级斗争会怎样发展？
• Lily would like this to play out in a certain way.
  LILY会愿意用某种方式了结此事的。