play off against

The 18-year-old enjoyed a sparkling season for the Rams and helped secure promotion to the Premiership as he supplied the cross for Stephen Pearson's winner in the play-off final against West Brom.(这名18岁的球员在公羊度过了一个梦幻般的赛季，他帮助球队安全晋级到英超联赛，在对西布朗的升级延长赛上为队友皮尔森送出了一个传中球从而击败了对手。)

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return to play a pair of married paranormal investigators who travel to London and face off against some truly unpleasant apparitions.(维拉·法米加、帕特里克·威尔森这回扮演一堆已婚夫妇，他们是灵异现象调查人员，在影片里前往伦敦去驱魔。)

Works of artists like Alexander Calder and Ellsworth Kelly play off well against the curves, but the space overwhelms anything small, delicate, or highly detailed.(像亚历克山大·卡尔德和艾尔思沃斯·凯利这些艺术家的作品完全可以和莱特的弧线设计媲美，但是博物馆的整体空间盖过了任何微小、精细和极细致的地方。)

He kept putting off replacing Katie in the hope that she would return, but their opening match against Slytherin was looming, and he finally had to accept that she would not be back in time to play.(他迟迟不肯找人替换凯蒂，希望她能回来，可是眼看他们对斯莱特林的第一场比赛就要临近，他终于不得不承认凯蒂赶不回来打比赛了。)

He tried to play off two of his colleagues against each other.(他企图挑拨他的两个同事之间的关系。)

Push a ping-pong table against a wall and play ping-pong with the wall, try to keep the ball off the ground.(把乒乓球桌一端顶着墙壁，站在另一端与墙对打，球不要落地。)

Top footballers were able to play clubs off against each other to gain higher pay.(顶级足球运动员能使俱乐部相互竞争以获取更高报酬。)

However Yallop, whose side kick-off the World Series of Football tournament tonight against Mexican side Tigres, insisted that there would be no pressure on Beckham to play if he was not ready.(雅勒普的球队今晚将与墨西哥的猛虎队进行世界足球联赛，他认为如果贝克汉姆还没有准备好，那么上场比赛对于贝克汉姆来说没有丝毫的压力。)

I watched their play-off game against Bahrain so I've seen a little bit of them.(我看了他们和巴林的附加赛，所以我对他们还是有一定了解的。)

The Arsenal star is captain of his country and looked to be heading to next summer's Finals in South Africa when Russia took a 2-0 lead in the first-leg of their play-off against Slovenia last month.(这位阿森纳球星是他们祖国的队长，在上个月俄罗斯与斯洛文尼亚附加赛第一回合中，俄罗斯以2：0领先，他也期待着进入到明年夏天的南非世界杯。)