Perhaps they did this after expressing hope that they could play ball with each other,meaning that they could learn to cooperate.

VOA: special.2010.08.22

Censorship only comes into play once a text has actually been in circulation for a while, only after a number of readers have found a published text to pose a threat.

控制仅仅是一本书已经出版发行一段时间,一些读者已经发现这印刷的文本,造成威胁时才起作用的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or why do we play Nora Jones right after Ravi Shankar?

为什么我们在拉维·香卡后说诺拉·琼斯

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In two thousand six, the year after Hurricane Katrina, the Saints returned to play at the repaired Superdome in New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

After a while, the dolphins become friendly and are ready to play the language game.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

After listening for a while, Esperanza was able to play the music by ear.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

It is also no accident that this play about a Scottish king was written a few years after James the First became King of England in sixteen-oh-three.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The play was in 1787, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

That study asked them whether a patient's age and other illnesses might play a role in not recommending chemotherapy after surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18