One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

If you assume that, you are not playing by the rule, we don't know what force it exerts.

如果你假定了,那你就犯规了,我们不知道它施加了多大的力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The civility entails the virtues of peace, equity, fairness, playing by the rules.

文明意味着和平，公正，公平，遵纪守法的美德。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Charlie developed as a musician by playing with different groups in public eating and drinking places called nightclubs.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

In the current world champion of chess, I think Vladimir Kramnik, was defeated in December by a chess-playing program.

当前的国际象棋世界冠军,弗拉基米尔?克拉姆尼克,就在今年12月被一个国际象棋程序击败

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He set one by playing poker for seventy-two hours, which was a record for that card game.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

a bit of pop music here and by playing this you might think that I think that I'm hip or with it.

一段流行音乐,你可能会觉得,放这段音乐会让我很兴奋

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

She soon began writing music and by age five had started playing the violin.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

So in fact, it is the case, if you look at data, and by the way, that's the way I ended up setting a lot of these parameters and playing with it, was comparing what my simulation said to historical stock data.

所以实际上，在这个例子中，如果你看到数据，顺便说一下，这就是我设置很多变量,然后编程的方式，也就是把我的仿真程序得到的结果,和历史股票数据进行比较。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Friday was the folk night but the playing was plagued by rain and delays.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

The family dog is playing outside and gets hit by a car.

家里的宠物狗在外面玩，被车撞了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And then she quickly strummed by playing all the strings at once.

VOA: special.2011.03.06

The Greeks did it by the playing of a flute like or oboe like instrument that played a military tune that had you marching forward at the right pace.

希腊人通过类似长笛,或双簧管的乐器发出指令,使之能以正确的步调前进

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In California, Woody earned money by playing his guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Now, figure in the fact that smoking is playing a role, physical activity is playing a role, still just changing fruit and vegetable consumption potentially could reduce heart disease worldwide by this much: stroke by 19% and some cancers by as much as 20%.

实际上吸烟和运动都对此有影响,即使将这些因素都考虑进去,仅仅改变水果和蔬菜的摄入量仍然能,在全球范围内减少这么多的心脏病得病率,中风减少19%而某些癌症减少达20%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He used to worry so much about playing South By Southwest showcases and impressing the right people that it wasn't fun.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

That is a new part of India's economy, and to the extent that by globalization, one needs more foreign investment and increased connection to foreign trade they are playing a role but India's economy growth is largely being driven by internal investments.

那也是印度经济,新的组成部分，从某种层面来说，由于全球化，经济发展需要,吸引更多外资，促进外贸,这些因素确实起了作用,但印度经济增长大部分还是靠,国内投资。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Soldiers from Uganda and Burundi are currently playing a vital security role by defending the presidential palace, the main seaport and airport from al-Shabab attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

As excited -- as aroused -- as we might find ourselves by this imagining of Milton actually playing Comus, of course his performance in that role can't be asserted in any way definitively.

我们会发现自己很兴奋,当在我们想象弥尔顿真的在饰演Comus的时候，当然他演那个角色的表现,我们不能以任何方式来判断。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The orchestra was formed in 1885 by some of the Boston Symphony's early benefactors, who were looking to expand the orchestra's appeal by playing popular music.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Republicans and Democrats expressed identical concerns that by engaging in negotiations, Iran may be playing for time in an effort to move ahead with weapons-related enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The lanky teenager began playing Australian Rules Football just four years ago but has made history by becoming the first player from Africa to join the professional league,the AFL.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Leaving Texas for the bright lights of Chicago, Miller made a name for himself on the city's electrifying blues circuit, playing in groups led by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

I think now would be a particularly bad time to send a signal to the international community and to our overall financial system by playing politics in any way with this upcoming vote,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

The government's diversity drive for the grandes ecoles has prompted a call by a group of academics for the state to level the playing field in other areas, like offering more housing and scholarships to poorer students attending these institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But in fact academic studies have shown that this is wrong-footed and that in the long run by not having a level playing field, by not building systems, by not creating competitive markets you are actually undermining development and you are undermining economic growth and you are taking away the trust of potential investors."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17