The order of play is decided by the roll of a dice.

比赛顺序是通过掷骰子决定的。

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Often the interviewer will need to play devil's advocate in order to get a discussion going.

采访者常常需要故意唱唱反调以使访谈继续下去。

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He says provincial authorities are trying to play down the significance of the civilian deaths in order to influence the NATO probe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

This is a game where you get a little plastic device, it's got 15 plastic numbers on it and one hole in this little plastic board and you can move those numbers up, down, left to right, and the goal is to take what's a random assortment of tiles and arrange them in numeric order and that's one of these little things you can play sort of absentmindedly.

在这个游戏中，你会拿到一个可塑的装置，上面有15个数字和一个孔,你可以将数字上下移动，左右移动，目标就是,拿到一个随机的组合后,将其按数字顺序排列,这个你可以随便玩玩。

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But Sarath Fonseka would play onto the sentiments within Sri Lanka, trying to play up the Indian military threat to Sri Lanka, in order to gain popularity within his own country."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

In the money calls were the best play in order to limit risk in such a volatile stock.

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But I feel like those girls that are on top at the moment, they're playing very aggressively, and that's the way you have to play in order to win.

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They intentionally include women, for example, in broadcasting a sport they do not play in order to bring more women into its viewership (and I hope because it is the right thing to do).

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