player

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player

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词源

源自中古英语 pleyer、playere，源自古英语 pleġere (“游戏者，玩家，运动员，摔角手”)，等于 play +‎ -er。

发音

(通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈpleɪɚ/
(标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈpleɪə(ɹ)/
音频 (南英格兰)： (档案)
韵部：-eɪə(ɹ)
断字：play‧er

名词

player (复数 players)

play的施动者名词
1. 运动员，竞赛者，选手
  近义词：(英国、爱尔兰方言) laker
2. (剧场艺术) 演员
  - Template:RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It
3. (音乐) 演奏者
4. (游戏术语，电子游戏) 玩家
  - 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, 出自 Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet‎^[1], 第 7 卷, →DOI，第 175 页:
    The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
    玩家可以在更大范围的设计叙事选项中自由创作属于自己的叙事，或者，考虑到《Morrowind》的地理和对话开放性，玩家可以拒绝创作任何叙事，而只是自己漫无目的地在游戏中漫游。
5. (赌博) 赌徒
6. (历史) 自动钢琴，或其他能自动演奏的乐器
  - 1915, John McTammany, The Technical History of the Player:
    But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers were beginning to properly interpret the handwriting on the wall
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  - 1909, William Braid White, Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism, ...‎^[2]，第 179 页:
    A Technical Treatise on Piano Player Mechanism" contains detailed description of the various types of interior and exterior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric
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  - 1970, Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume, Player piano: the history of the mechanical piano and how to repair it‎^[3]:
    Electric players used either a four-lobe rotary pump belt-driven by an electric motor or a self-contained electric motor and ...
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7. (电子学) 播放音讯或视讯媒体的电器，例如电唱机
  Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
  是你的CD机坏了，还是这张碟片坏了？
8. (计算机) 播放器（用于播放音讯或视讯媒体的软体应用程式）
没有严肃目标的人；闹著玩的人；无所事事的人
参与者，参加者
He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
他认为自己可以参与其中，至少在州级层面。
- 2011, Suzanne Shale, Moral Leadership in Medicine，第 239 页:
  Decision realities research recognizes the occupational tribalism identified in occupational realities research, but goes further by paying attention to all the players – patients and lay caregivers included – who participate in negotiating care.
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- 2012年11月7日, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, 出自 New York Times‎^[4]:
  Another Bush — George W.’s brother Jeb — is likely to be a big player in the Republican Party’s future.
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- 2021年3月10日, Nigel Harris, “It's time to get on with it!”, 出自 RAIL, 第 926 期，第 3 页:
  As the biggest rail player, Network Rail was usually held accountable for failings, but had no authority to change anything to solve the problems. The DfT had been given that authority in 2004 - but consistently ducked accountability.
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1. 参与某种性爱形式的人
  - 1991年4月22日, Wickie Stamps, “A Lesbian Looks At The GMSMA's 10^th Anniversary Celebration”, 出自 Gay Community News，第 11 页:
    In this space we explored lesbian sadomasochism, met other S/M women who were serious players, had access to safe equipment and, through watching other women, learned new techniques.
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(非正式) 喜欢到处拈花惹草，而非建立长久性关系的人
近义词：参见Thesaurus:libertine
- 1977, Stevie Nicks （作曲作词）, “Dreams”, 出自 Rumours, 演出者 Fleetwood Mac, Warner Bros.:
  Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know
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