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play up: 大肆渲染

  7日,中国外交部发表声明,坚决反对美国国防部旨在渲染"中国军事威胁论"的防务评估报告,称中国军队发展并没有对世界造成威胁。

  请看相关报道:china yesterday rejected a pentagon report that plays up the "china military threat," saying it poses no threat to the world.

  这句话中"play up"可以解释为emphasize;give special importance to,意思是大肆渲染,反义词是"play down".如:she played up her experience during the job interview.(在工作面试时她夸大了自己的经验。)

  另外,这个词组还有"使痛苦,使恼火"的意思,如我们可以说:the class played the new teacher up.(这班学生惹得老师发火。)