play up

基本解釋

Everyone in this living-history site likes to play dress-up, and visitors are no exception.
每個來到這個現(xiàn)存歷史古跡的人都會感到像是在化裝舞會，連游客也不例外。
Attitudes to love and marriage continue to change since the first Marriage Law was introduced in 1950, and have to play catch-up with people's evolving love lives since then.
自1950年中國第一部《婚姻法》頒布之后，人們的婚戀觀念一直在轉(zhuǎn)變著；該法自誕生之日起就一直伴隨戀人們的腳步，與時俱進(jìn)著。
It has ample room to play catch-up with rich economies by adding to its capital stock, importing foreign technology and boosting productivity by shifting labour from farms to factories.
中國通過增加資本存量，引進(jìn)國外技術(shù)以及通過勞動力從農(nóng)到工的配置來拉動生產(chǎn)效率的方式追趕發(fā)達(dá)經(jīng)濟(jì)體的空間還很大。

It is setting up 13 centers they call Child-Friendly Spaces, where children can play with other children, and get counseling.
Now we're going to play just a little bit of pop music-- Not too laud cause this really hipped up.
現(xiàn)在我們將放一段流行音樂,不要放得太響
耶魯公開課 - 聆聽音樂課程節(jié)選
And the schools play a major role in this and thus all these kids who grew up speaking patois or Provencal or Gascon-- I forgot Gascon, around Bordeaux, they can sing the Marseillaise in acceptable French as they march off to be slaughtered.
在這里面學(xué)校扮演了主要角色,所以這些說著,方言或者普羅旺斯語或者加斯科涅語的孩子們,我把加斯科涅語忘了,在波爾多附近,他們操著勉強(qiáng)能接受的法語唱著馬賽曲,上前線等待被屠殺
耶魯公開課 - 1871年后的法國課程節(jié)選

Along with talk of seeking "self-sufficiency" in rice, a strange-enough national notion in an age of global trade that has helped Asia-Pacific play catch-up to the West, even worse ideas have floated up.
FORBES: Magazine Article

If you play up something, you emphasize it and try to make people believe that it is important.