| 释义 |
played, ppl. a.|pleɪd|
[f. play v. + -ed1.]
1. That has been played.
1833J. Cairnie Ess. Curling 61 Every stone shall be reckoned as played, if the player part with the handle. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 713/2 If a played stone rolls over, or stops, on its side or top, it shall be put off the ice. 1892J. Brown Man. Bowling (ed. 2) 76 As soon as the last played bowl stops, the control of the rink is transferred to the other party. 1969R. Welsh Beginner's Guide to Curling xvi. 102 If a curler touches a played stone belonging to his side, he himself will remove it from the ice.
2. a. played-out: see play v. 32 c.
1863Holland Lett. Joneses xvi. 239 One remains, here and there, a played-out man.
b. Exhausted, worn out; passé, finished. U.S. colloq.
1872Republican Rev. 16 Mar. 2/4 The days of forked sticks for plows is about played. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 439 That used to be, but that's all played now; that is, in this particular town. The Irish got to piling up hacks so, on their funerals, that a funeral left them ragged and hungry for two years afterward; so the priest pitched in and broke it all up. 1897Outing XXIX. 421/2 He's about played.
3. played-down: see play v. 38.
1960G. Charles in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories 45 He would have liked to have dropped a modest, played-down remark or two on his standing in his own community. 1973J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 109 The deliberately played-down tone of his talk. |