美 [pleɪ ʌp]
加油；开始奏乐；使恼火；调皮捣蛋；强调
play up // [ playing played plays ]
动词词组 If you play up something, you emphasize it and try to make people believe that it is important. 强调
The media played up the prospects for a settlement.
媒体夸大了和解的前景。
加油；开始奏乐；使恼火
加油；开始奏乐；使恼火
Don't let the pupils play up.
别让小学生淘气。
She knows how to play up to the boss.
她知道怎么讨好上司。
He wanted two good actresses to play up to him.
他想要两个出色的女演员担任配角。
American fan Peggy Whitney agreed. "Hopefully the other countries will get stronger as the years progress, bring their level of play up to the Canadians and the Americans."
VOA : standard.2010.02.15
Now we're going to play just a little bit of pop music-- Not too laud cause this really hipped up.
现在我们将放一段流行音乐,不要放得太响
聆听音乐课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
And if you are prepared to stand up for about two and a half to three hours to watch a play,
而且你要准备好了站上大约两个半小时到三个小时，去看一场戏剧，
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 莎士比亚环球剧院
But Sarath Fonseka would play onto the sentiments within Sri Lanka, trying to play up the Indian military threat to Sri Lanka, in order to gain popularity within his own country."
VOA : standard.2009.11.14
The questions the play brings up are as fresh today as they were fifty years ago.
VOA : special.2010.03.12
As Yugoslav news reports play up reports of civilian deaths, however, many Serbs don't believe it.
That feature--seemingly designed to play up the privacy threat of Google's huge collection of user data--backfired.
When criticised by his Western allies, Mubarak would play up the threat posed by Islamists.