What a play it had been!

多么精彩的一出戏啊！

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And what a play it had been!

那是怎样的一出戏啊！

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Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living."

路易斯•阿姆斯特朗把爵士乐简单定义为“我为了谋生而玩的东西。”

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He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

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there is almost a kind of metaphorical play between what he's describing and the sounds with which he is doing the describing.

这里有一个比喻,在他描述的东西和,他即将描述的声音。

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Each of them is trying to play a best response for what they anticipate the other person's going to do.

每家公司都想采取预料的对方策略的,最佳对策来制定产量

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"What a powerful play, " echoed New York Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko.

FORBES: John Catsimatidis

What makes a play political?

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But - and here is what gives the play a relevance beyond its immediate intent - what is shocking is that, by the end, we believe that it could happen.

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