a couple of players

基本解释

We were just a couple of players away.
我们只是打我们的球罢了。
The 26-year-old added: "You can see the other teams are all improving. We need some here and there too, we need a couple of players and we need to go ahead with that."
范佩西说：“你看看其他球队都在进步，我们在一些位置上也需要补充，我们需要几个新援，这样我们才能继续前进。”
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If a couple of players are locked in stagnant combat for a while, the first player able to invest the considerable resources to go Imperial will be able to turn the tide.
如果几个玩家被僵持的战斗拖住了，那么第一个能投入大量资源升级帝王时代的玩家将有机会打破均势。

When it comes to real cloud computing, only a couple of players make the grade, he explained.
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