指扮演反面的角色，对事情采取尖酸苛刻的态度to play the villain; to play the evil role in an opera

• 他与科比的领袖力完全可以互补,在湖人队一个唱红脸,一个唱白脸。

  His style of leadership complements Kobe Bryant’s perfectly, and in the Lakers squad one plays good cop, the other bad cop.