词汇 | played-out |
释义 | played out adjective informaluk /ˌpleɪd ˈaʊt/ us /ˌpleɪd ˈaʊt/ tired and no longer having power or effectiveness: 筋疲力尽的 I'm about played out, Jack - it's time I retired.我几乎筋疲力尽了,杰克——我该退休了。 [ before noun ]figurativeThey won't get people to vote for those played-out old policies.人们是不会投票赞成那些过时的旧政策的。 Synonyms dog-tiredinformal exhausted fatiguedformal spentliterary tired(NEEDING REST) worn out(TIRED) Tired and making tired all in anti-fatigue at your worstidiom be dead on your feetidiom be fit/ready to dropidiom finish something off fit to dropidiom fragile frazzled gassed haggard knackered shell-shocked sleep-deprived sleepily sleepiness sleepy stonkered strung out zonked Examples of played outplayed out It may have been playedout according to the following scenario. I remember so much, they are continuously being playedout before me in such a way that they contradict each other. This was playedout on the ground in raw conflict that pitted armed soldiers against defenceless landowners. The boat halted at various mini-sets where animated figures playedout episodes of the story. 25. It also helps to highlight what went on beneath discourses, that is, how discourses were playedout in specific circumstances and how they were lived. Alimentary behavior is thus playedout on the level of the digestive apparatus, in the regulatory brain, and in the integrative cortex. How is gender differentiation playedout in communities where either polyphonic or monologic talk is the norm for both genders? Thus, both architecturally and socially, the aggrandizement playedout in a way that recognized local needs alongside monarchical ones. Institutional evolution demonstrates how processes of change have playedout differently in the three countries. The war of words between the 'old enemies', playedout on the wartime and immediate postwar political and media stages, was essentially a phoney war. This attempts to justify the genre in both the tradition of electronic music and the tradition of engaged critical activity playedout by the avant-garde. Power struggles between the federal and state governments were also being playedout within the framework of factional politics. The way this bifurcation playedout on the urban scene merits further analytical scrutiny. This research also examines cultural constructions of ageing as they are playedout in the weight-management setting. Cruel scams were playedout on desperate families, with meaningless but costly information peddled to them on the whereabouts of the missing. See all examples of played out These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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