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

我认为朝鲜可能蓄意讨好唐纳德·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.

们会玩猜字谜游戏，们可能会叫你玩一下，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.

或许一切始于海边。或许网球场上。又或许就到的那天，我们第一次并肩同行。我依吩咐为介绍房子和周边地区，一样样讲过，最后带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地，然后往曾经连接B城与N城，如今已然弃置的铁轨走去。“附近有废弃火车？”把目光投向灼热太阳下树林的另一头，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。火车只是随叫随停。”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，一些吉卜赛人住里面。打从我母亲少女时期到这儿来避暑，们就住那里。吉卜赛人把两节脱轨的货车拖得离海更远了。我问想去看？“再说吧。或许吧。”真是有礼的冷淡，仿佛察觉出我以过分的热情去讨好，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.

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。一个向前倾，另一个向后倾——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的数据而打得和马霍姆斯一样好，但马霍姆斯现的表现还达不到马霍姆斯。