I recall an incident in a handball game when a referee refused a player's request for a time out for a glove change because he did not consider them wet enough.

我回想起在一次手球比赛中发生的事情，一名球员曾一度要求暂停比赛到场外更换手套，但是裁判员认为他的手套没有湿到必须更换的程度，所以拒绝了他。

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The most difficult thing in a fast game of basketball is to change course midstream.

在一场快节奏的篮球比赛中，最难之事莫过于中途变线了。

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There, he learned to play the game that would change his life: chess.

在那里，他学会了一种改变他一生的游戏：国际象棋。

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Almost any game you play has some kind of randomness or pseudorandomness which means that things change overtime somewhat unpredictably.

大多数你所玩过的游戏都有某种,随机数或者伪随机数,这就意味着每个事件都存在不可预测性。

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We change the payoffs, we change what people cared about, and we get a very different game with a very different outcome.

我们改变了收益,我们改变了目的,那我们就改变了博弈,改变了结果

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What it is doing, is saying, change the game.

它做的事情就是改变整个游戏。

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He told the BBC that Russia was not in the "regime-change game".

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To take the metaphor of negotiation or combat as a game even further, if possible one should not only change the game board, but change the game.

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If someone is facing a chess master, change the game board to Go, or checkers.

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