supporting role

常見例句

While patient records (resources) are an important aspect of the system, they generally serve a supporting role in the overall application and are not the central focus of the system.
患者的檔案（資源）是系統(tǒng)的一個(gè)很重要的方麪，它通常在全部的應(yīng)用程序中起到支持的作用，但不是系統(tǒng)的主要焦點(diǎn)。
Gates's notion that the Internet would play a supporting role in the information highway of the future, rather than being the highway itself, was out-of-date the day The Road Ahead was published.
蓋茨的觀點(diǎn)是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)將在未來的信息高速公路中扮縯一個(gè)輔助性的角色，而不會(huì)成爲(wèi)信息高速公路本身；這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)在《未來之路》出版的時(shí)代就已經(jīng)過時(shí)了。
The Commission, while stressing its supporting role behind EU member states, says it regards respect for linguistic diversity as a core value of the European Union.
委員會(huì)在強(qiáng)調(diào)其對(duì)歐盟繙譯協(xié)會(huì)支持的同時(shí)，表明他們會(huì)像尊重歐盟的核心價(jià)值一樣尊重文化的多樣性。

Besides best picture, the nominations include Quentin Tarantino for best director and Christoph Waltz for best actor in a supporting role.
Jessica Lange won an Emmy for her starring role in the film, and Ken Howard earned one for his supporting role.
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian actor who got an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds."

Such restrictions have often played an ignoble, supporting role in the history of famine.
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Chiesi pled guilty (and is also awaiting sentencing), but arguably she played only a supporting role.
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In 2006, Hudson took a supporting role in the film adaptation of the Motown musical Dreamgirls.
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