You might also use the phrase to motivate or drive your own team to complete something – "we're playing catch-up here, guys" – as it can add an air of competition.

你可能也用这个词组去激励或者驱使你的团队去完成某项任务—“同伴们，我们快实现目标啦”—它可能增加竞争的气氛。

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Playing mahjong is entertainment, is a way to catch up between relatives and friends love, don't too care about winning or losing, as long as have a good time, lost is also happy.

打麻将即是娱乐，是亲戚朋友间言情叙旧的一种方式，就不要太在意输赢，只要玩得高兴，输一点也开心。

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When a country or a company is playing catch-up it can look at what others are doing and do it better.

当一个国家或一个公司正奋力赶超的话，其将会借鉴别人的做法并加以改进。

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And fast or the second-seeded Knicks will spend the rest of this series playing catch-up.

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Apple is clearly playing catch-up here, and trying to position the iPad mini as nothing like the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire only serves to make us realize that Apple actually does feel threatened by these devices that beat it to what has turned out to be a real market.

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