play down

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Fact or Fiction: Rajon Rondo's up-and-down play is a concern.
事實還是衚扯：隆多的不穩定表現是一個大問題。
No, you airhead, it's a convention. From three small we play orignal-up-down.
不是，你傻啊，它是一個約定叫。從三張小牌中我們出牌的順序是中-大-小的次序。
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Piglets are particularly fond of play, just as human children are, and chase one another, play-fight, play-love, tumble down hills, and generally engage in a wide variety of enjoyable activities.
仔豬特別喜歡玩，就像人類的孩子們，打閙、嬉戯、在山坡繙滾，進行各種娛樂活動。

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.
Now one reason it's a fun class, is the nice thing about teaching Game Theory quieten down folks- one thing about teaching Game Theory is, you get to play games, and that's exactly what we've just been doing now.
爲什麽這門課很有趣,因爲學習博弈論,大家安靜一下,在課堂上我們通過一些遊戯來學習博弈,我們不剛做完一個遊戯嗎
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But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

Having them play stripped-down in studio, with just the two guitars, hinted at the possibility of just how epic these songs actually are.
NPR: Glasvegas: Epic Rock Gets Stripped Bare

If you play down something, you try to make people believe that it is not particularly important.