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Fact or Fiction: Rajon Rondo's up-and-down play is a concern.
事实还是胡扯：隆多的不稳定表现是一个大问题。
No, you airhead, it's a convention. From three small we play orignal-up-down.
不是，你傻啊，它是一个约定叫。从三张小牌中我们出牌的顺序是中-大-小的次序。
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Piglets are particularly fond of play, just as human children are, and chase one another, play-fight, play-love, tumble down hills, and generally engage in a wide variety of enjoyable activities.
仔猪特别喜欢玩，就像人类的孩子们，打闹、嬉戏、在山坡翻滚，进行各种娱乐活动。

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.
Now one reason it's a fun class, is the nice thing about teaching Game Theory quieten down folks- one thing about teaching Game Theory is, you get to play games, and that's exactly what we've just been doing now.
为什么这门课很有趣,因为学习博弈论,大家安静一下,在课堂上我们通过一些游戏来学习博弈,我们不刚做完一个游戏吗
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But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

Having them play stripped-down in studio, with just the two guitars, hinted at the possibility of just how epic these songs actually are.
NPR: Glasvegas: Epic Rock Gets Stripped Bare

If you play down something, you try to make people believe that it is not particularly important.