| 词组 | play out |
| 释义 | play out 1. be played out if an event is played out, especially an exciting or important one, it takes place: ▪ The final scenes of their marriage were played out in a villa in St Tropez. ▪ At the time, this was just one of many conflicts being played out on the world stage. play out/play itself out especially AmE if an event plays out or plays itself out, it happens and finally ends with a particular result - used especially when you are considering what might happen: ▪ I don't know if he'll win again. We'll just have to see how the election plays out. ▪ No one knows yet how the debate on GM foods will play out. 2. play out sth to act part of a play or film or pretend to be a particular type of person: ▪ The teacher chose three of the older children to play out the scene. ▪ Now she was a teenager, she could no longer play out the role of Daddy's little girl. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑act out 3. play out sth • play sth out if people play out their feelings, dreams etc, they express them by pretending that a particular situation is really happening: ▪ In a novel the writer is able to play out his own strange fantasies. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑act out 4. play out your career/the season etc to continue playing, especially for the same team, until the end of your career, until the end of the season etc: ▪ He turned down a contract offer that would have allowed him to play out his career with Kings. 5. be played out to be so tired that you cannot do anything else: ▪ Lou's voice trailed into silence. She was played out - too exhausted even to weep. ■ SIMILAR TO: be worn out, be shattered 6. be played out if a mine is played out, all the coal, gold etc has been taken out of the ground: ▪ These people had hard lives, and when the mines played out, they moved on. |
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