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• game   /ɡeɪm/ DJ   /gem/ KK
  • noun
    • （有规则的）游戏，运动，比赛项目 an activity or a sport with rules in which people or teams compete against each othercountable
      • 纸牌游戏 card games
      • 棋类游戏 board games
      • 靠运气决定胜负／凭技巧取胜的游戏 a game of chance/skill
      • 诸如英式足球或网球等球类运动 ball games, such as soccer or tennis
      • 我们要去看棒球比赛。 We're going to the ball game(= baseball match).American English
    • （一项）游戏，运动，比赛 an occasion of playing a gamecountable
      • 踢足球；下棋 to play a game of football/chess
      • 联赛中星期六对斯旺西队的比赛 Saturday's League game against Swansea
      • 咱们来打场乒乓球赛吧。 Let's have a game of table tennis.
      • 他们正在为大赛进行训练。 They're in training for the big game.
    • 比赛时用的手法；比赛技巧 the way in which somebody plays a gamesingular sb's ~
      • 亨德里的比赛技巧有所提高，他得到了 4 万英镑的头等奖。 Hendry raised his game to collect the £40 000 first prize.
      • 伸展运动有助于防止身体受伤，并能提高比赛技巧。 Stretching exercises can help you avoid injury and improve your game.
    • （学校的）体育课，体育活动 sport as a lesson or an activity at schoolplural old-fashioned British English
      • 我念书的时候一直不喜欢体育活动。 I always hated games at school.
      • Alternate:
        games
    • 运动会 a large organized sports eventplural
      • 奥运会 the Olympic Games
      • Alternate:
        games
    • （网球等比赛的）一局，一场 a section of some games, such as tennis, which forms a unit in scoringcountable
      • 各赢两局 two games all(= both players have won two games)
    • 儿童游戏 a children's activity when they play with toys, pretend to be somebody else, etc.countable
      • 警察抓强盗的游戏 a game of cops and robbers
    • 娱乐；消遣；玩耍 an activity that you do to have funcountable
      • 他在逗着狗玩。 He was playing games with the dog.
    • 行当；行业；职业 a type of activity or businesscountable
      • 你干这行当多长时间了？ How long have you been in this game?
      • 政治；人生 the game of politics/life
      • 我本人对这个不熟悉。 I'm new to this game myself.
      • 对孩子来说弄脏是很正常的事。 Getting dirty was all part of the game to the kids.
      • See also:
        waiting game
    • 诡计；策略；花招 a secret and clever plan; a trickcountable informal
      • 原来那是他的小花招。 So that's his little game(= now I know what he has been planning).
    • 猎物；野禽；野味 wild animals or birds that people hunt for sport or fooduncountable
      • See also:
        big game;   fair game
    • Idiom:
      be on the game British English, slang
      • 卖淫；当“野鸡” to be a prostitute
    • Idiom:
      the game is up British English, informal
      • （对做坏事被抓或罪行败露者说的话）戏该收场了，别再演戏了 said to somebody who has done something wrong, when they are caught and the crime or trick has been discovered
    • Idiom:
      give the game away
      • 不慎泄露；露馅；露马脚 to tell a secret, especially by accident; to show something that should be kept hidden
    • Idiom:
      play the game
      • 办事公道；为人诚实 to behave in a fair and honest way
    • Idiom:
      play somebody's game
      • （无意中）促成某人的计划 to do something which helps somebody else's plans, especially by accident, when you did not intend to help them
    • Idiom:
      play (silly) games (with somebody)
      • （与某人）耍花招，玩把戏 not to treat a situation seriously, especially in order to cheat or deceive somebody
        • 别跟我兜圈子，我知道是你干的。 Don't play silly games with me; I know you did it.
    • Idiom:
      two can play at that game
      • （表示也会对方耍的花招）这一套你会我也会 used to tell somebody who has played a trick on you that you can do the same thing to them
    • Idiom:
      what's somebody's/your game? British English, spoken
      • 在干什么；怎么啦 used to ask why somebody is behaving as they are
    • See also:
      beat somebody at their own game;   play (a game of) cat and mouse;   play a cat-and-mouse game with somebody;   fun and games;   a mug's game;   the name of the game;   numbers game;   the rules of the game;   (the game is) not worth the candle
  • adjective
    • 甘愿尝试；有冒险精神 ready and willing to do something new, difficult or dangerous~ (for sth/to do sth)
      • 她什么事都敢试。 She's game for anything.
      • 我们需要有人自告奋勇来做这个练习，谁愿意来试试？ We need a volunteer for this exercise. Who's game to try?

English dictionary

• game
  • A form of play or sport, esp. a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck
  • A complete episode or period of play, typically ending in a definite result
  • A single portion of play forming a scoring unit in a match, esp. in tennis

Related phrases

• adventure game
  （电脑）涉险游戏，冒险游戏
• ball game
  1. 球类运动    2. 棒球比赛
• big game
  大猎物（如大象和狮子）
• board game
  棋类游戏
• card game
  纸牌游戏
• Game Boy
  游戏小子 (日本任天堂推出的便携式游戏机商品名)
• computer game
  电脑游戏
• Murphy game
  墨菲把戏(以金钱或女人为诱饵的骗局)
• TV game
  电视游戏(需配合电视游乐器使用)
• fair game
  可开玩笑（或嘲弄、作弄）的对象

Synonyms

• adjective: brave, plucky, courageous, gallant, ready, manful, valiant, lame
• verb: gamble, play
• noun: play, match, sport

Web translations

Usage examples

• "As far as my game and practicing, that's been secondary," he said. "We're trying to get our kids situated to our new living conditions and how that's going to be. That's where our focus is going to be right now."
  Aug 25, 2010 -  Tiger Wood -  San Francisco Chronicle
• "I've played Roger many times. I know his game and he knows mine," Soderling said.
  Sep 6, 2010 -  Robin Soderling -  FOXNews
• "I'm pretty fast on the court," she said. "I have no problem with long rallies, and I really like to step into the court and play fast and not give time to my opponent. I'm still working on my serve, because it still can be better. My game is...
  Sep 6, 2010 -  Caroline Wozniacki -  AFP

Web definitions

• • a contest with rules to determine a winner; "you need four people to play this game"
    
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• • a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours"
    
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• • an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"
    
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