musical chairs

音標發(fā)音

For Gregory’s birthday, we invited his classmates over and taught them to play musical chairs.
格雷戈里過生日的時候，我們邀請了他的同學過來，教他們玩音樂椅。
Have a game day where you play favorite childhood games like pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs.
花一天的時間玩小時候最愛的游戲，比如貼驢子尾巴或搶椅游戲。
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What unfolded may have been the most polite, most apologetic, and least competitive game of musical chairs in the history of the world.
這展現(xiàn)給我們的是他們的禮貌和深深的歉意。然而這不過是世界上最小競爭的一個搶椅游戲。

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a game in which children walk around a group of chairs while music plays. When the music stops they have to sit quickly on a chair, but because there is always one fewer chairs than children, the child that is left standing must leave the game

Musical chairs is a game that children play at parties. They run around a row of chairs while music plays and try to sit down on one when the music stops.
If you describe the situation within a particular organization or area of activity as musical chairs, you are critical of the fact that people in that organization or area exchange jobs or positions very often.