I think the North Koreans are probably actually deliberately playing up to Donald Trump's unpredictability.

我认为朝鲜可能在蓄意讨好唐纳德·特朗普的不可预测性。

They will play charades and you may be asked to play a tree but don't play up to it.

他们会玩猜字谜游戏，他们可能会叫你玩下，但不要玩得太过火。

Polite indifference, as if he'd spotted my misplaced zeal to play up to him and was summarily pushing me away.

或许切始于海边。或许在网球场上。又或许就在他刚到的那天，我们第次并肩同行。我依吩咐为他介绍房子和周边，样样讲过，最带他穿过那道古老的锻铁大，走到荒郊里那块偏僻得仿佛没有尽头的空，往曾经连接B城与N城，如今已弃置的铁轨走去。“附近有废弃火车站吗？”他把目光投向灼热太阳下树林的另头，或许是想对屋主的儿子提出恰到好处的问题。“没有，附近从来就没有火车站。火车只是随叫随停。”他对这里的火车感到好奇，因为铁轨看起来那么窄。是有皇家标志的双节无顶货车，我解释道。现在，些吉卜赛人住在里面。打从我母亲少女时期到这儿来避暑，他们就住在那里。吉卜赛人把两节脱轨的货车拖得离海更远了。我问他想去看吗？“再说吧。或许吧。”真是有礼的冷淡，仿佛他察觉出我在以过分的热情去讨好他，便立刻把我推开。

Connie always plays up to her parents when she wants money.

【play】康妮缺钱的时候总是讨好她的父母。

In these competitions, men play up to five sets and women play as many as three.

在这些比赛中，男子比赛多达五局，女子比赛多达三局。

The Commissary played up to him in the character of tyrant; and as the one leaned farther forward, the other leaned farther back—majesty confronting fury.

小卖部以暴君的身份戏弄他。个向前倾，另个向倾——威严对抗愤怒。

I mean, like, you can say Fields is playing as good as Mahomes because of his numbers, but Mahomes isn't playing up to Mahomes right now.

我的意思是， 你可以说菲尔兹因为他的数据而打得和马霍姆斯样好，但马霍姆斯现在的表现还达不到马霍姆斯。