play是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 玩， 做游戏； 参加比赛n. 游戏； 玩耍； 剧本，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel had a great desire to play on it.
-- Her standing rigging was so out of order that it allowed play to the masts, which were violently shaken at every roll of the sea.
-- But if we play our game well there is not much fear of that."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, then, is the stage upon which tragedy has been played, and upon which we may help to play it again.'
-- We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision.
-- 'Dear me!It is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game.
-- My second and wisest one is to play my own game and speak as little as possible to anyone.
-- This was my conversation with Barrymore just now, which gives me one more strong card which I can play in due time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would like to give play to his imagination, and follow the inspiration of his genius, but a soldier is only at ease in the guard-room, and the pen stops half-way, a slave to discipline.
-- And it was at this moment that General Epanchin began to play so large and important a part in the story.
-- 'I don't think it at all nice of him to play a part.
-- 'Let's play at some game!'
-- 'You don't really mean us to play this game.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
-- Would you, then, have us draw down our ships into the water while the battle is raging, and thus play further into the hands of the conquering Trojans?
-- Come hither then, my friend, stand by me and see indeed whether I shall play the coward the whole day through as you say, or whether I shall not stay some even of the boldest Danaans from fighting round the body of Pa-troclus.'
-- There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.
-- Then said Juno all crafty and full of guile, 'You will play false, and will not hold to your word.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jaffers cried in a strangled voice holding tight, nevertheless, and making play with his knee spun around, and fell heavily undermost with his head on the gravel.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The play continued for a few minutes, and then suddenly, without any warning, Harlequin stopped talking.
-- It was a heart-rending spectacle, but the audience, seeing that the play had stopped, became angry and began to yell: "The play, the play, we want the play!"
-- As soon as the play was over, the Director went to the kitchen, where a fine big lamb was slowly turning on the spit.
-- I'll build myself a beautiful palace, with a thousand stables filled with a thousand wooden horses to play with, a cellar overflowing with lemonade and ice cream soda, and a library of candies and fruits, cakes and cookies."
-- "Days are spent in play and enjoyment from morn till night.
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