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play-off

/pley-awf, -of/US // ˈpleɪˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

附加赛,加赛,淘汰赛,补赛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the playing of an extra game, rounds, innings, etc., in order to settle a tie.
    • : a series of games or matches, as between the leading teams of two leagues, in order to decide a championship: In America the most exciting play-off is the World Series.

Examples

  • Have there been discussions with FX regarding an Archer movie, and how do you think that would play out?

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.

  • He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.

  • I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!

  • But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.

  • To fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.

  • Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.

  • Her attachment to impressionism leads this artist to many experiments in color—or, as one critic wrote, "to play with color."