musical chairs

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated. uncountable
  2. Any activity which results in repeated, pointless shuffling of people or objects. figuratively,uncountable
    — They were married though they needn't have married, and though both had sworn they never would be. It is hard to explain—in that game of musical chairs—why they should have stopped, finally, at each other.
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