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

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

This of course brings us to the issue of "gaps" and the role that they play in the act of reading as Iser understands it.

这理所当然地把我们引到了“间隙“的问题上“,以及照伊瑟尔的理解,间隙在阅读中起到的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For all students, what we want to do is we want to give you an understanding of the role computation can and cannot play in tackling technical problems.

对所有学生来讲，我们想做的就是,给你们关于计算在能否解决技术问题中,所扮演角色的,认识。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

During this mock exercise, water is used instead of chemicals to decontaminate people who play the role of survivors.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

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。

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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

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

And you could ask yourself the-- about the extent of that segregation and how that reflects--what role that should play with regard to the Contact Hypothesis.

你们可以思考一下-,这种隔离的程度,以及它在接触假说中,起了什么作用。

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