Mike Banner plays for the Chicago Fire, but started in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

When I realized that I was writing plays, I read a lot more plays for style and for substance and for technique.

当我意识到我在写剧的时候，我会读更多剧本来学习形式,内容和技巧。

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and I live with this very nice girl, my roommate who writes plays for a living and works at a theater.

我和一个女孩一起住，她人很好，在剧院工作，靠写戏剧为生，

布鲁克林的房价 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And they would let him see plays for free.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

I'm asking you if somebody wrote apparently Shakespeare's plays for him; it's one of the rumors, right?

我想问你,有没有人替写莎士比亚写剧本,这只是个传闻,对吧

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Christiano Ronaldo, who plays for Portugal and Spanish football club Real Madrid says the noise disturbs the players' concentration.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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Many of George Gershwin's songs were first written for musical plays performed in theaters in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

who's really well known for plays that have to do with issues of Asian-American identity.

他写了很多有名的作品，他的作品大都与亚裔美国人的身份问题息息相关。

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All three plays were noted for their use of sharp language and making fun of human failings.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

From where do you get your inspiration for writing plays?

你从哪里得到写剧本的灵感呢？

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She wrote seven books and more than one hundred short stories, plays and articles for magazines.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

In her role as Eva Lovelace, Hepburn plays a stage actress fighting for a successful career.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

For example, one recreation plays out the gunfight that killed Billy Claiborne, a member of the Cowboys gang who ran from the OK Corral.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The Environmental Film Festival in Washington plays an important role in helping increase understanding about a subject that is important for people all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

For example,it contains seventy-nine copies of the first printed collection of Shakespeare's plays.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Miller won an award for writing plays while at school.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

He wrote music for plays, movies and dance.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Here Martin plays "Late for School."

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Mo'Nique, who plays the abusive mother of a troubled teenaged girl in "Precious."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

(Speaking in Polish) The owner,30-year-old Roman Gruchalski, explains that the bar plays on his own nostalgia for the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

For the next two weeks this city plays host to experts, officials,activists and eventually world leaders as they try to clinch a deal.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Her 13-year-old son, William plays a traditional drum that Tainos from Puerto Rico made for him.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

""Lost" plays to our taste for mysteries and puzzles in a really good way."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

But nature plays a role as well. As for climate change, severe water shortages are predicted to affect between 75 and 250 million people by 2020.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Shakespeare's plays have been performed for 400 years.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"It plays into the narrative that they are trying to construct for the population they are appealing to of this ragged band of brave individuals fighting the mighty power that is oppressing their society.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Italian Marco Fosatti, who plays professionally for internationally renowned Inter Milan, says he was shocked by some of the things he observed from the window of the team bus on the trips between the hotel and the practice fields.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"Civil Society plays a key role in helping to communicate the need for mothers to bring their children in early for vaccines to complete the vaccination series to make sure that non-governmental organizations deliver and offer vaccines not only one day a week necessarily but on a regular basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10