Assad would be more than eager to play the role of a mediator between the U.S.and anybody.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

So the link of the conflict will play a stronger role in making the humanitarian issues more important.

因而冲突的纽带将会发挥更大的作用,使得人道主义问题更加重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I think a lot of the advancements that will come from it, will definitely play a larger role than we probably think now.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

I think the answer is that both play a role but some of the effects are due to stereotypes above and beyond in-group favoritism.

我想两者都有,但刻板印象的影响,要高于组内偏爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The study also found that the age of the father can play a role, although it is not as significant as the age of the mother.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

You'll play role sort of a shoe salesman, shall we say?

你的角色是鞋子销售员？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They play a critical role on some of our refueling efforts.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

I think engineers have a role to play in that, but it's not sort of classical Biomedical Engineering in the way that developing an artificial heart is where you can see that.

我认为工程师们,在其中扮演了重要角色,但它又不像传统生物医学工程那样,去研究人造心脏之类,实实在在的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Former footballer and Deputy General-Secretary of the Union, Thulaganyo Gao Shubelwe, says footballers can play a positive role in conveying the safe-sex message because of the aura surrounding them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The Boston University researcher says this kind of analysis could play a role, not just in predicting who will live longest, but in actually helping people live longer and healthier lives.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Even they had to go into a role, just like in Zimbardo, they had to play their role of 1959 as if they were 20 years younger.

就算他们要进入角色，和Zimbardo的实验一样，要扮演1959年时的角色，仿佛年轻了20岁。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now, the marriage case is extreme but Freud gives a lot of simpler examples where this sort of unconscious motivation might play a role.

婚姻是一个极端的例子,但弗洛伊德还举了很多简单点的例子,来阐释无意识动机是如何发挥作用的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选