70.to play for time(为争取时间)故意拖延
They don't have a strategy, they're simply playing for time.他们没有什么策略, 只是在故意拖延时间。
71.to serve your time
(as prisoner)服刑；坐牢
He put in a request to serve his time in a prison nearer to his family home.他请求在离他家更近的监狱服刑。
(as apprentice)当学徒；做徒弟
a miner's family, with one boy down the mine, another serving his time in a shop一个儿子在矿井工作、另一个儿子在店铺学徒的矿工家庭