They played basketball.

他们打过篮球。

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They played basketball yesterday afternoon.

昨天下午他打了篮球。

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They played basketball some few hours that day.

那天他们打了几个小时的篮球。

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They rode horses. They played baseball and basketball.

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They played basketball the way basketball is supposed to be played, and they lost but not before making Goliath wonder whether he was a giant, after all.

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"They have played tremendous basketball over a four-game period, which is not always that easy to do, " Boeheim said of his Orange.

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Even so, they've played arguably their best basketball over the past month, and entered Thursday night's game here against the Bulls on a 13-game win streak.

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