play简单

play the roles in Shakespeare.

扮演莎士比亚作品中的角色。

What played the major role in lowering the price of nails after the late 1700s?

18世纪末以后，什么在降低钉子价格方面起了主要作用？

Least rousing, he thinks, was rational argument, although his co-authors say reason might play a bigger role.

他认为，最不能打动人的是理性论证，尽管他的合著者说理性可能发挥了更大的作用。

an emotion can play opposing roles.

一种情绪可能起到截然相反的作用。

Only recently have they come to see the vital part forests will have to play in storing carbon.

直到最近，它们才认识到森林在储存碳方面必将发挥的重要作用。

Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role”.

哈佛大学公共卫生学院的生物统计学家、统计审稿编辑委员会成员乔瓦尼·帕尔米贾尼表示，他预计该委员会将“主要发挥咨询作用”。

If you were walking 3 miles a day, playing 18 holes of golf three times a week, or lifting 10-pound dumbbells for three sets of 10 reps, reduce activity to half a mile every other day, or nine holes of golf once a week with short walks on other days, or use 5-pound dumbbells for one set of 10 reps.

如果你以前每天步行3英里，每周打三次18洞高尔夫，或者举10磅哑铃做三组、每组10次，那么现在就把运动量减少到隔天走半英里，或者每周打一次9洞高尔夫、其他日子短距离散步，或者用5磅哑铃做一组10次。

played

玩

During the experiment, the social robot rat followed the living rats around, played with the same toys, and opened cage doors to let trapped rats escape.

在实验中，社交型机器鼠跟着活老鼠四处走动，玩同样的玩具，还会打开笼门让被困的老鼠逃出来。

They may have bonded more with the social robot because it displayed behaviours like communal exploring and playing.

它们可能与社交型机器鼠建立了更深的联系，因为它表现出了共同探索和玩耍之类的行为。

It played with some toys.

它玩了一些玩具。

If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in providing common goods — making sure there is space for playing fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and encouraging the provision of all these activities in schools.

如果说政府有什么作用的话，那应该是参与提供公共产品——确保有修建运动场的空间和铺设网球场、无挡板篮球场的资金，并鼓励学校开展所有这些活动。

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for schools or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

追求文学造诣的剧本是为学校或宫廷而写，或是为圣保罗大教堂和皇家礼拜堂的唱诗班男孩而写的，不过这些男孩既在宫廷演出，也公开演出。

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for schools or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

追求文学造诣的剧本是为学校或宫廷而写，或是为圣保罗大教堂和皇家礼拜堂的唱诗班男孩而写的，不过这些男孩既在宫廷演出，也公开演出。

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

此后二十五年伊丽莎白时代戏剧的发展，对研究文学史的人来说格外有意义，因为在这短短的时期内，我们可以追溯许多种戏剧以及许多伟大事业的开端、成长、繁荣与衰落。

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

今天，单是当时创作的剧本数量，以及同时为这座拥有二十万居民的伦敦城写作的剧作家人数，就令我们惊叹不已。

(50) To realize how great was the dramatic activity, we must remember further that hosts of plays have been lost, and that probably there is no author of note whose entire work has survived.

(50) 要认识到当时戏剧活动之盛，我们还必须记住，大量剧本已经失传，而且恐怕没有哪一位知名作家的全部作品都流传了下来。

In plays, novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author’s own thoughts.

在戏剧、小说和叙事诗中，人物是作为作者创造的构建物来说话的，而不一定是作者自身思想的传声筒。

“Tech is designed to really suck you in,” says Jenny Radesky in her study of digital play, “and digital products are there to promote maximal engagement.

“科技产品的设计就是要把你真正吸进去，”珍妮·拉德斯基在她关于数字游戏的研究中说，“数字产品的存在就是为了最大限度地促进用户投入。

It is undoubtedly true that all work and no play really does make Jack, or Jill, dull. The cure is right at hand. Reading is cheap, easy and, most important, it’s fun. Liberate your imagination this year.

毫无疑问，只工作不玩耍确实会让人变得乏味。解药就在手边。阅读便宜、简单，最重要的是，它很有趣。今年就解放你的想象力吧。

Clothing is not just about covering our bodies; it plays a significant role in shaping our self-perception and interactions with others.

衣服不仅仅是用来遮蔽身体的；它在塑造我们的自我认知以及我们与他人的互动方面发挥着重要作用。

Moreover, cultural and societal influences play a significant role in shaping our dress choices.

而且，文化和社会影响在塑造我们的着装选择方面发挥着重要作用。

played a part in the fight against illegal file-sharing.

在打击非法文件共享中发挥了作用。

Thus we play an integral role in identifying, preserving, and providing accessibility to digital artifacts so that, while future researchers may find the digital realm a challenging place to ply their trade, they won’t find it an impossible one.

因此，我们在识别、保存数字资料并提供获取途径方面发挥着不可或缺的作用，这样，尽管未来的研究人员可能会发现数字领域是一个充满挑战的工作场所，但他们不会觉得那是一个无法开展工作的地方。

play a bigger role in the health system.

在卫生体系中发挥更大作用。

Although the cues used by African elephants for long-distance navigation are not yet understood, smell may well play a part.

虽然非洲象用于远距离导航的线索尚不清楚，但嗅觉很可能在其中发挥了作用。