hi everybody welcome back to know your

verbs my name is Alicia and in this

lesson we're going to talk about the

verb play let's begin

let's begin with the basic definition of

this verb it's to engage in a game sport

or activity examples we play soccer

every week let's play a board game now

let's look at the conjugations for this

verb present play plays past played past

participle played progressive playing

okay so now let's talk about some

additional meanings for this verb the

first additional meaning to spend time

doing something fun this use of the verb

is typically used among children we use

this for children and to talk about the

activities of children examples we used

to play with the kids in our

neighborhood do you like playing with

dolls in these example sentences we're

talking about the activities that kids

do things that kids do like playing with

their friends playing with dolls playing

with trucks playing with cars so when we

use playing with it's like there's some

kind of enjoyable activity going on and

it has a very youthful sound to it it

sounds like something kids do a mistake

that I hear adult learners make

sometimes is they say I played with my

friends last weekend as adults we don't

use the verb play we'll use it to refer

to a sport or to a game but we do not

use it to talk about spending time with

friends as adults especially American

English speakers we can say for example

I hung out with my friends last weekend

or I got together with my friends last

weekend that's fine we do not use the

verb play as adults for kids great I

played with my friends when I was little

I played with dolls when I was little

okay let's go on to the second

additional meaning the second additional

meaning is to perform as a character

this can mean theater it can mean movies

it can mean any kind of performance

examples Keanu Reeves played neo in the

matrix series I want to play a dramatic

role someday so here in my first example

sentence I've got Keanu Reeves as my

example Keanu Reeves played neo in the

matrix series so he performed in the

role of neo he performed in the role of

is shortened to played there in the

second example sentence I want to play a

dramatic role someday play means perform

in I want to perform in a dramatic role

someday so this means perform to play

okay let's move on to the third

additional meaning for the sperm it is

to pretend to be a certain way

to pretend to exhibit a certain behavior

a key here is pretending pretending

examples he's playing dumb he knows the

answer I taught my dog to play dead okay

so here we see play in the first example

sentence he's playing dumb

that means he's pretending not to know

that's what this sentence means he's

playing dumb playing dumb is a quite a

common phrase like don't play dumb means

don't pretend not to know something in

the second example sentence I taught my

dog to play dead

means I taught my dog to pretend to be

dead or I taught my dog to act like he

or she is dead so to play means to

pretend something

so the fourth additional meaning here is

to perform music to perform music

examples the DJ played a lot of great

music last night have you ever played

this on piano so this is quite simple it

just means to perform music like you you

cause music to be heard by other people

so a DJ can play music through a sound

system of course we can play instruments

like playing the piano or playing the

heart playing the flute

so we can use play to mean performing

music or like sharing music some way

alright let's talk about some variations

for this verb now there are a lot of

variations for the verb play these are

just a few that I'm going to introduce

of course if you want to know more I

highly recommend checking a dictionary

ok let's take a look at the first one

for this lesson to play something by ear

to play something by ear this means to

do something without a plan it means to

make decisions in the moment so examples

we have no plans for the day we're just

gonna play it by ear I don't want to

plan my travels too much I prefer to

play things by ear so both of these use

the expression play it by ear play

things by ear meaning I don't want to

make plans like I just want to see how

things go if things are feeling one way

I'll do that if things are feeling

another way I'll make a different

decision so why do we say playing by ear

imagine then if you play an instrument

maybe this is useful for you but imagine

you're trying to play the piano and

you're trying to play a melody you're

trying to find a melody you don't know

it but you listen to each note as you

play and gradually you can find the

melody you're looking for so we call

that playing physically playing

performing a song by ear so using your

ear to listen to the melody and find the

correct melody that way we use the same

idea for our activities so playing an

activity by ear according to our

feelings we make decisions for the next

step to play it by ear let's go on to

the second variation for this verb it is

to play with fire to play with fire

means to do something dangerous or to do

something that's a bit risky for example

examples you want to confront the CEO

about her mistakes don't play with fire

he's trying to date three people at the

same time he's playing with fire ok so

both of these share may be a risky or

possibly dangerous situation in the

first example sentence confronting a CEO

about her mistakes that sounds like it

could be dangerous for someone

potentially if they don't want to lose

their job at the company so the speaker

men's don't play with fire in other

words don't do something risky don't do

something dangerous suggesting that the

previous point confronting the CEO is a

risky or dangerous behavior don't do

that in the second example sentence we

see it in the progressive tense he's

playing with fire by dating three women

at the same time so that could be risky

it could be dangerous he could cause

fights he could cause problems we don't

know but we're saying he's playing with

fire he's doing something that is risky

or dangerous okay let's move on to the

third variation of this bird the third

variation is to play up to play up this

is kind of a slang expression this is an

expression that means to make something

seem better than it actually is

so maybe the true level is here but when

we play something up we exaggerate it we

improve it but only with our words it's

not truly here it's still here we make

it sound better examples my parents

always play up my achievements be

careful not to play yourself up on your

resume it might cause problems in the

future so here we see play up being used

to describe someone's life for someone's

activities being exaggerated so in the

first example my parents always play up

my achievements it means my parents make

my achievements sound better than they

actually are so maybe I had some nice

achievement great but perhaps my parents

make it sound like the achievement is

even better even bigger than it truly is

like as parents do fine but to play up

something means it's not truly at that

level in the second example sentence be

careful not to play yourself up on your

resume it means don't make yourself

sound better than you actually are on

your resume because it might cause

problems in the future so to play up

means to improve the apparent quality or

the apparent value of something but it's

not true okay so those are a few new

ways to use the word play I hope of

course as I said there are lots and lots

of ways to use this word so I highly

recommend checking a dictionary to see

all of them of course if you have any

questions or comments or if you want to

prep

using this verb please feel free to do

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动词，我的名字是艾丽西亚，在

本课中，我们将讨论

动词 play 让我们

开始让我们从这个动词的基本定义开始，

它是参与游戏运动

或活动我们踢足球的例子

每周让我们玩一个棋盘游戏 现在

让我们看看这个

动词的变位 现在玩 过去玩

过去分词 玩渐进玩

好吧 现在让我们来谈谈

这个动词的一些附加含义

第一个附加含义 花时间

做一些有趣的事情 这个用法 of 这个动词

通常用在孩子之间 我们用

这个来形容孩子和谈论

孩子

的活动 孩子

们做孩子

们喜欢的事情 e 正在进行一些

令人愉快的活动

，而且听起来很年轻

动词 play 我们将用它来指

代一项运动或游戏，但我们不会

用它来谈论成年后与朋友一起度过的时光，

尤其是说美国

英语的人，我们可以说例如

我上周末和朋友一起出去玩

或 上周末我和我的朋友们聚在一起

很好 我们不使用

动词 play as Adults for kids 很棒 我

小时候和我的朋友一起玩 我小的

时候和洋娃娃一起玩

好吧 让我们继续第二个

附加意义 额外的

含义是作为一个角色表演

这可能意味着剧院 它可能意味着电影

它可能意味着任何类型的表演

示例 基努·里维斯（Keanu Reeves）在

矩阵系列中扮演新角色 我想有一天扮演一个戏剧性的

角色所以在我的第一个 exa 中 mple

sentence I've got Keanu Reeves as my

example Keanu Reeves 在

矩阵系列中扮演 Neo 所以他扮演 Neo 的

角色 他扮演的角色

被缩短为在

第二个句子中扮演的角色 我想扮演一个

戏剧角色 有朝一日

我想表演一个戏剧性的角色，

所以这意味着表演可以发挥

作用让我们继续讨论精子的第三个

附加含义，即

假装以某种方式

假装表现出某种

行为关键 这是假装假装的

例子 他在装傻 他知道

我教我的狗装死的答案

是一个很

常见的短语，例如不要装傻意味着

不要假装不

知道第二个例句中的我教我的

狗装死

意味着我教我的狗假装是

死了，或者我教我的狗表现得像他

或她死了所以玩意味着

假装什么

所以这里的第四个附加含义

是演奏音乐来演奏音乐

示例DJ昨晚播放了很多很棒的

音乐你玩过

这个吗 在钢琴上所以这很简单它

只是意味着像你一样演奏音乐你

让其他人听到音乐

所以DJ可以通过音响系统播放音乐

当然我们可以演奏乐器

如弹钢琴或演奏

心脏演奏 长笛

所以我们可以用 play 来表示演奏

音乐或喜欢以某种方式分享音乐

好吧 让我们谈谈

这个动词的一些变体 现在

动词 play 有很多变体 当然这些

只是我要介绍

的一些 如果您想了解更多信息，我

强烈建议您查字典

好的，让我们看一下本课的第一个字典。

ke 决定在当下所以例子

我们没有计划那天我们

只是靠耳朵玩我不想

太多计划我的旅行我更喜欢

靠耳朵玩东西所以这两个都

使用表达 play it 随

耳听听 意思是我不想

制定计划 我只想看看

事情进展 如果事情是这样的，

我会这样做 如果事情是

另一种感觉，我会做出不同的

决定 那为什么 我们是说用耳朵弹奏吗？

想象一下，如果你弹奏一种乐器，

也许这对你有用，但想象一下

你正在尝试弹钢琴，而

你正在尝试弹奏一段旋律，你正在

试图找到一个你没有找到的旋律 知道

它，但你在弹奏时听每个音符

，逐渐你可以找到

你正在寻找的旋律，所以我们

称之为物理演奏，

用耳朵演奏一首歌，所以用你的

耳朵听旋律并找到

正确的旋律 我们在活动中使用相同的

想法的方式，因此

根据耳朵进行活动 根据我们的

感受，我们会为

下一步做出决定 凭耳朵玩 让我们继续

这个动词的第二个变体 它

是玩火玩火

意味着做一些危险的事情或做

一些有点冒险的事情

你想与 CEO

就她的错误进行质询的例子 不要玩火

他试图同时与三个人约会

他正在玩火 好的，所以

在第一个例句中，这两种情况都可能是危险的或可能是危险的情况

一位首席执行官

关于她的错误，这听起来

可能对某人来说可能是危险的，

如果他们不想

失去在公司的工作，所以演讲

者不要玩火

换句话说不要做有风险的事情不要 做

一些危险的事情，暗示

与 CEO 面对的前一点是一种

冒险或危险的行为 不

要这样做 在第二个例句中，我们

看到他

正在与三个女人约会时玩火的进行时态

同时，这可能是有风险的，

这可能是危险的，他可能会引起

战斗，他可能会引起我们不

知道的问题，但我们说他在玩火，

他正在做一些有风险

或危险的事情，好吧，让我们继续进行

第三个 这只鸟的变体 第三种

变体是 to play up to play up 这

是一种俚语表达 这是一种

表达方式，意思是让某些东西

看起来比实际更好，

所以也许真正的水平就在这里，但是当

我们演奏一些东西时，我们 夸大它我们

改进它但只是用我们的话它

不是真的在这里它仍然在这里我们

让它听起来更好的例子我的父母

总是夸大我的成就

小心不要在你的简历上夸大自己

这可能会在未来造成问题

所以在这里我们 看到 play up 被

用来描述某人的生活，因为某人的

活动被夸大了，所以在

第一个例子中，我的父母总是夸大

我的成就，这意味着我的父母让

我的成就听起来比

实际上是这样，也许我取得了一些不错的

成就，但也许我的

父母听起来好像成就

比父母做得更好甚至更大

例句

注意不要在简历上

夸大自己 意思是不要让自己

听起来比简历上的实际好，

因为这可能会

在将来引起问题 所以夸大

意味着提高表观质量

或表观价值 的东西，但它

不是真的好的，所以这些是

使用单词游戏的一些新方法我

当然希望正如我所说的那样有很多

很多方法可以使用这个词，所以我强烈

建议查看字典以查看

所有这些 当然，如果您有任何

问题或意见，或者如果您想

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