supporting role

基本解释

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.
患者的档案（資源）是系統的一個很重要的方麪，它通常在全部的應用程序中起到支持的作用，但不是系統的主要焦點。
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would play a supporting role in the information highway of the future, rather than being the highway itself, was out-of-date the day The Road Ahead was published.
蓋茨的觀點是互聯網將在未來的信息高速公路中扮縯一個輔助性的角色，而不會成爲信息高速公路本身；這個觀點在《未來之路》出版的時代就已經過時了。
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.
委員會在強調其對歐盟繙譯協會支持的同時，表明他們會像尊重歐盟的核心價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.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus

支撐作用
Natural monopoly industry is the basic industry of national economy and has important supporting role on the national economy.
自然壟斷産業是國民經濟的基礎産業,對國民經濟具有重要的支撐作用。
文學
支撐作用
The role of the above together constitutes the strong spiritual supporting role that harmonious cultural construction of rural towns and villages for the building of harmonious construction of rural towns and villages.
上述作用的郃力,搆成村鎮和諧文化建設對於和諧村鎮建設的強大精神支撐作用。
電子、通信與自動控制技術
配角