play out

英 [pleɪ aʊt]

美 [pleɪ aʊt]

（使）（戏剧性事件）逐渐发生; （使）展开

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （使）（戏剧性的事件）逐渐发生；（使）展开
  If a dramatic eventis played out, it gradually takes place.
  1. Her union reforms were played out against a background of rising unemployment...
     她对工会的改革是在失业率不断上升的背景下展开的。
  2. The film has eerie parallels with the drama being played out in real life.
     这部电影和现实生活中发生的一系列戏剧性事件有着诡异的巧合之处。

英英释义

verb

• become spent or exhausted
  1. The champion's strength played out fast
• play to a finish
  1. We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last
• perform or be performed to the end
  1. How will the election drama be played out?
• deplete
  1. exhaust one's savings
  2. We quickly played out our strength
  Synonym:run downexhaustsaptire

双语例句

• You'll let things play out as they are.
  你必须让这些事情向我说的那样发展下去。
• It is unclear how this recovery will play out.
  目前尚不确定这次的复苏将如何上演。
• If my life is a movie, you are the play out of the advertising.
  假如我的人生是一部片子，你就是那弹出来的广告。
• The question remains compelling: What is wisdom, and how does it play out in individual lives?
  相关问题至今仍难以捉摸，引人深思：什么是智慧？它在一个人的生活中发挥了怎样的作用？
• I'm not quite sure where, on balance, we should say how these things play out.
  我不是很肯定，总的来说，这些事情是怎么进行的。
• You must have a vision of how this is supposed to play out.
  这事该怎么做你心里得有个底。
• Whenever I solved a problem, again a problem, did not play out, good tired.
  每当我解决掉一个问题，总会再来一个问题，没玩没了了，好厌倦。
• Mummy says I can play out in the garden.
  妈妈说我可以到外面花园里玩。
• You know how that will play out.
  你知道结局会是怎样。
• Washington policymakers and politicians need to stand back and let this adjustment play out.
  华盛顿政策制定者与政治家需要靠后站，放手让这一调整自行展开。