numbers game

英 [ˈnʌmbəz ɡeɪm]

美 [ˈnʌmbərz ɡeɪm]

n.  (通常为误导他人的)数字游戏

柯林斯词典

• N-SING (通常为误导他人的)数字游戏
  If you say that someone is playingthe numbers game, you think that they are concentrating on the aspects of something which can be expressed in statistics, usually in order to mislead people.
  1. Regrettably, he resorts to the familiar numbers game when he boasts that fewer than 300 state enterprises currently remain in the public sector.
     遗憾的是，他又玩起了老一套的数字游戏，吹嘘说目前属于公有部门的国营企业已不到300家。
• See also:number

英英释义

noun

• an illegal daily lottery
  Synonym:numbers poolnumbers racketnumbers

双语例句

• The number chip being drawn will then be placed on the score ball faced down so that people cannot see what your numbers are and can be easily be revealed when the game finished.
  抽签被刻印的数字珠仔将放到被朝下放各一指定位置，以便对手在游戏未结束时看出你的号码或轻易地被透露。
• Keeping track of daily health is a numbers game and, for many, one that is too much work to justify the means.
  记下每天的锻炼量是一场数字游戏，然而这游戏量有些大。
• Some people treat job hunting as a numbers game.
  有些人把找工作看成是数字游戏。
• Because the whole network communication process all is the event driven I/ O way, and how to deal with a large Numbers of users and request has been network game server of a bottleneck.
  由于整个网络通信过程均是采用事件驱动I/O方式，而如何处理大量用户并发请求一直是网络游戏服务器的一个瓶颈。
• You're not making finding a job a job itself: Many people don't adopt a committed, passionate, failure-is-not-an-option attitude and don't recognize that finding a job is a numbers game.
  你没有将找工作当成一项“工作”来完成：许多人态度不认真、没有热情、没有做好“不许失败”的思想准备、没有意识到求职是一个“数字游戏”。
• Since O'Neal's numbers have slowly started to drop, Yao and Howard are beginning to be regarded as the game's best all-around centers.
  自从奥尼尔的数据开始慢慢走下坡路，姚明和霍华德就开始被认为是联盟中最好的全能中锋。
• Asked whether super-delegates should feel empowered to overturn the will of the voters expressed through pledged delegates, Clinton suggested the nomination battle is more than a numbers game.
  被问及超级代表是否能够推翻通过宣誓代表表达的普通选民的意愿，希拉里暗示候选人竞争远非一场数字游戏这么简单。
• It's really a simple numbers game with negative and positive numbers.
  它其实就是正负数的简单数字游戏。
• As we've been told over and over again, it's a numbers game.
  正如我们不断说的那样，这只是个数字游戏。
• Let's just play the numbers game here.
  我们来玩个数字游戏。