At the ASEAN summit in October, Burma's prime minister indicated they could lift some restrictions against the detained Nobel prize winner and allow her to play a role in the country's political reconciliation if she behaves.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Now, it gets complicated because there are some cases where we do allow stereotypes to play a role.

但实际情况没有这么简单,因为有时候我们确实允许,把刻板印象应用到生活中。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So I feel like psychology is just going to play a major role

所以我觉得心理学正在发挥越来越重要的作用，

毕业于心理学专业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

president has done so. He told the council that the United Nations has a "pivotal role to play" in preventing a nuclear crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

So although holiness derives from god, humans have a crucial role to play in sanctification, in sanctifying the world.

尽管神圣源于神灵，人类在将世界神圣化的过程中，扮演者重要的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

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

He says if people want peace, the tribal leaders can play a role, if we are given the power and authority to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The government will have to play a leading role.

政府需要扮演主要角色。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

She says the pictures could play a role but one would have to be in a predisposed state then one may see the morbid murals with very different eyes, which could adversely affect someone.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

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

Though funding from the IMF,the World Bank, the United States and other donors has made it possible to subsidize treatment and prevention methods in Africa, Dr.Rwagacondo says that local governments also have a key role to play in mobilizing their populations and eradicating malaria in the long term.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

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

"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

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

Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

And what happened is, over a 30-year or so period, the industry really shifted to be one where industry standards started to come into play, the customers started to have a bigger role.

经过了30年左右，这个行业发生了变化,出现了产业标准，消费者的角色也越来越重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

So, studies with police officers using reaction time in split-second choices on who to shoot find that your stereotypical attitudes play a huge role in who you're likely to shoot when they're holding an object in their hand that's unclear.

一些针对警察的研究,用霎间的反应时间让他们作出选择,应该向谁开枪，研究发现这些刻板态度,能极大的影响你选择向谁开枪,当他们手里拿着不明物体时。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选