They did not play well in the beginning.

他们一开始打得不好。

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We did not play well as a team.

我们作为一个团队踢得不好。

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He did not play well enough to win.

他弹得不够好，没能胜出。

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"Well,I got to play with the president's own piano player. I did not play for President Bush, because I think he was on a trip to Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

"Today I did not play well, " said Clijsters, who had been out since last October.

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The minister's suggestion, however, did not play well with senior officials who concluded that this would require drugging hunger-strikers which would be "unthinkable".

BBC: Northern Ireland

They did not play well.

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