英语词汇“play”的释义、区别辨析及用法例句-英语同义词词典

单词

play

例句

verb | noun

playplay1 /pleɪ/ verb 1 to take part in a game or sport► play

to take part in a game or sport:

Two old men were playing chess.

I play tennis once a week.

► compete

to take part in a race or competition:

Over 1,000 cyclists will compete in the race.

► enter

to arrange to take part in a race or competition:

If you want to enter the competition, all you have to do is call this number.

➔ see Sports and Exercise2 to do things that you enjoy► play

to do things that you enjoy. You use play about what children and pets do:

After school I usually go out and play with my friends.

Cats love to play with balls of string.

► have fun

to get pleasure from doing something:

It was a good party and everyone was laughing and having fun.

► enjoy yourself

enjoy yourself means the same as have fun but is more formal:

Her son seems to be enjoying himself at college.

verb | noun

playplay2 /pleɪ/ noun ► play

a story that actors perform in a theater:

“Romeo and Juliet” is a famous play by William Shakespeare.

► musical

a play in which the characters sing songs and dance to tell the story:

She performed in the musical “Wicked.”

► drama AWL

a play, television program, or movie that tells a serious story about people’s lives:

The show is a new TV drama which is set in a hospital.

➔ You also use drama about the study of plays in general: She is planning to go to drama school.

► show

something people watch on stage or television, or listen to on the radio. Show sounds fairly informal and you do not usually use it about a performance of classical music, an opera, or a ballet:

Parents and friends came to watch the young musicians and dancers perform in the show.

He was in the TV show “Friends.”

► performance

an occasion when people perform a play or show on stage:

This evening’s performance of the play will begin at 8 p.m.

► production

a play, opera, or ballet. You use production when you are talking about how the play will be performed by a particular group of actors:

There is a new production of Arthur Miller’s famous play “Death of a Salesman.”

➔ see fun1 for play meaning “things you do for fun” ➔ see theater, Books and Literature

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