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• 1. PHRASAL VERB If you play on someone's fears, weaknesses, or faults, you deliberately use them in order to persuade that person to do something, or to achieve what you want. 有意利用 (别人的恐惧、弱点或过错)

  ...a campaign which plays on the population's fear of change. …一场有意利用人们对变化的恐惧的运动。

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