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- to play
- to have fun
- to trifle with
- toy
- sth used for amusement
- curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4])
- to keep sth for entertainment
Trad. 玩轉
- to know all the ins and outs of sth
- to get to know (a place) inside out
- to visit (a large number of places)
- to tour around (the whole country, the whole city etc)
Trad. 貪玩
- to only want to have a good time
- to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline
- (Tw) traditional handcrafted toy (e.g. spinning top 陀螺[tuo2 luo2], tangram 七巧板[qi1 qiao3 ban3] etc)
- toy
- plaything
- thing
- act
- trick (in a performance, stage show, acrobatics etc)
- to play fast and loose with the law
- to game the system
- (leisure) rules of the game
- way of doing an activity
- (tourism) way of experiencing a place
Trad. 玩陰的
- (coll.) to play dirty; to use underhanded tactics
- (coll.) sneaky; underhanded
- can't afford to play
- (fig.) can't accept it when one loses
Trad. 說著玩兒
- erhua variant of 說著玩|说着玩[shuo1 zhe5 wan2]
Trad. 電動玩具
- battery-powered toy
- (Tw) video game
- computer game
Trad. 吃喝玩樂
- lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom)
- fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
- to trifle without respect (idiom); to despise worldly conventions
- frivolous
Trad. 玩人喪德
- to play with others and offend morals
- wicked
Trad. 玩兒不轉
- can't handle it
- can't find any way (of doing sth)
- not up to the task
Trad. 鬧著玩兒
- to play games
- to joke around
- to play a joke on sb
Trad. 玩弄詞藻
- to juggle with words (dishonestly)
- to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric
Trad. 玩忽職守
- to neglect one's duty
- dereliction of duty
- malpractice
- to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences
- to get one's fingers burnt
Trad. 玩物喪志
- lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress
- excessive attention to trivia saps the will