不重要的角色

With breathtaking ease, Annabella rejects an offer of marriage from George Eden, a wholesome if self-centered clergyman who continues to play a minor role in the novel, as her counselor and confessor.

Annabella用如同屏住呼吸一般轻易地拒绝了George Eden的求婚，他是一个自我中心的牧师，在小说里继续扮演了不重要的角色——Annabella的顾问和神父。

I am but/just a cog in a/the wheel.

我只是一个不重要的成员=小角色

Secondly, to low-class hotels, excellent outcome quality and interaction quality can significantly improve customer satisfaction, but the physical environment quality can't significantly improve customer satisfaction, and the outcome quality plays a more important role; excellent physical environment quality and interaction quality can significantly improve customer loyalty, but the outcome quality can't significantly improve customer loyalty, and the interaction quality plays a more important role.

第二，对于普通酒店，良好的结果质量和交互质量都可以显著地提高顾客满意，而实体环境质量则不能显著地提高顾客满意，结果质量扮演了比交互质量更加重要的角色；良好的实体环境质量和交互质量都可以显著地提高顾客忠诚，而结果质量则不能显著地提高顾客忠诚，交互质量扮演了比实体环境质量更加重要的角色。

Objects play a significant role in this book – particularly those like the Italian Vespa motor – scooter which encapsulate many of the important aspects of modern design and culture – but most of them are included as examples or illustrations rather than as the main substance of my text.

物体在这本书里扮演了一个很重要的角色——尤其那些像意大利 Vespa 单脚马达滑行车一样的物体，它们将现代设计及文化的许多重要方面包含其中——但在我的正文中它们中的大多数是作为例子或插图而不是文章的主旨。

Results: The major findings are:(1)the public held strong belief in the preventability of AIDS/STDs and considered prevention was of greater importance than biomedical interventions,(2)of the possible prevention strategies proposed by the research participants, personal behavior control was deemed as the most effective; meanwhile a sense of powerlessness was expressed while mentioning the government's responsibility for keeping the quality of blood supply and managing the potential dangers posed by other people's behavior,(3)condoms were well accepted as an effective tool for AIDS/STDs prevention but were used mostly for the purposes of contraception than HIV/STDs prevention, and (4)people were unwilling to use condom mainly due to sensational and psychological discomforts.

结果：（1）民众多认为爱滋病的「可预防性」极高，且视预防比高科技的解决方式重要；（2）个人行为的控制乃最受民众重视的防治途径；但对政府的血液安全管制及他人行为所可能造成的危害较感无力；（3）民众对保险套之使用持相当肯定之态度，不过曾使用者绝大多数以避孕而非以预防性病为主要目的，男女性在这方面的行为差异极大；（4）身体及心理上的不适与不税被一般民众指出是保险套使用率低的主要原因，（5）教育程度对民众在预防的认知及信念扮演极重要的角色。

Saponins, steroid saponins, which are rich and play the most important physiologically active compounds in yam. The studies of steroid saponins of other plants found that glycone on saponins played an important physiological activity. Because of the structural differences between saponin glycosides with different forms and sapogenin resulting from the removal of glycone by hydrolysis on saponins , caused the different physiological effect.

山药含有丰富的皂，属类固醇皂，为山药所含最具生理活性的重要化合物；从其他植物类固醇皂的研究发现，醣基於皂的生理活性上扮演著相当重要的角色，其所接醣基的多寡与有无，醣基的组成、醣的键结型式、醣基链的长度及支链的有无等，皆会影响其生理功效；故不同形式配醣体的的皂，及水解后造成醣基去除而形成皂元，因其结构的不同，产生之生理功效亦不尽相同。

Behave as if one were unimportant; take a less prominent part in sth

装扮成不重要的角色；在某事物中起较次要的作用

But Devil May Cry would not be Devil May Cry without Dante so of course we had to include him in the game and as you play and the story unfurls you will see that he has a very important role to play.

但是如果没有Dante，那DMC就不是DMC了，因此Dante仍然是个重要的角色。

For example, there are several fields where commercial considerations regarding inventions and patent rights play such a large role that we cannot expect cost-free access to research results and data, either now or in the future.

例如，有几个领域和商业考量有关，如发明和专利权利就扮演很重要的角色，无论是现在或将来，我们不能指望免费获得近用这些研究成果和数据。

As a geometric invariant under projective transformations, cross-ratio is the basis of many recognition and reconstruction algorithms.

交比不变性在此类投影转换中，扮演了一个重要的角色。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了