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PHRASAL VERB If you play on someone's fears, weaknesses, or faults, you deliberately use them in order to persuade that person to do something, or to achieve what you want. 有意利用 (别人的恐惧、弱点或过错)
...a campaign which plays on the population's fear of change.
…一场有意利用人们对变化的恐惧的运动。
I saw the play on its return to Broadway.
这部戏重回百老汇时我看了。
Advertisements often play on people's fears.
广告常利用人们的恐惧心理。
Did you hear that play on the radio last night?
你昨晚收听了那出广播剧吗?
Doctor Johnson established a tennis camp for black children who were not permitted to play on tennis courts for whites.
VOA: special.2010.02.07
Often, to illustrate the issues of ambiguity, people have collected poorly thought-out headlines in newspaper reports that play on--that inadvertently have ambiguity.
通常,为了说明模糊性的问题,人们收集了那些未经深思熟虑的,在无意间造成模糊性的新闻标题
For me it was... I play on the golf team here, I was the captain of the team.
对我来说是……我在高尔夫球队打球,我是队长。
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