long game

名詞

A long-term strategy or endeavor. / (whist) The version of the game played until one team makes 10 points, as opposed to the short game, which is played to 5 points.

日本語の意味

長期的な戦略や取り組み、または長期目線の計画。 / （ホイスティングゲームにおいて）相手より先に10点を取るまで続けられるバージョンのゲーム。

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If we focus only on quick wins, we'll lose sight of the long game.

短期的な勝利にばかり目を向けると、長期的な戦略を見失ってしまう。

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意味（1）

A long-term strategy or endeavor.

He had won the long game and success had turned to ashes in his mouth.

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意味（2）

(whist) The version of the game played until one team makes 10 points, as opposed to the short game, which is played to 5 points.

Chamber's Encyclopedia: “About 1785 the experiment of dividing the game into half was tried, and short whist was the result. The short game soon came into favour; and in 1864 the supremacy of short whist was acknowledged.”

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意味（3）

(American football) The aspect of the game in which the strategy is to advance downfield by throwing the ball to a receiving player; the passing game.

[T]he Seahawks held Newton to 119 passing yards, as the Panthers kept mainly to the ground and Seattle's secondary shut down the long game.

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意味（4）

(golf) The portion of the game, played with driver clubs, in which the ball is advanced down the fairway to the putting green.

“[E]verybody thinks when the wind blows it affects the long game the most, but it doesn’t,” Westwood said. “It tends to affect the putting most.”

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long games （ plural ）