play to win

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To play in an especially competitive, committed manner, focused intently on winning.
    — "[W]e just got totally outplayed. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose."
  2. To make a special, determined effort to achieve general success or a particular goal, in life, in one's career, in negotiation, etc. broadly,idiomatic
    — "I play to win. I am playing for human lives. This, sir, is the torture, marks of which you have seen on the prisoners; but your inexperience will not detect at a glance all the diabolical ingenuity and cruelty that lurks in this piece of linen and these straps of leather."

词形变化

to play to win canonical plays to win present,singular,third-person playing to win participle,present played to win participle,past played to win past
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