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单词 role
释义
role
(roʊl )
Word forms: roles
1. countable noun B2
If you have a role in a situation or in society, you have a particular position and function in it.
...the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection. [+ in]
...bitter disagreements about the role of the monarchy.
Both sides have roles to play.
[Also + of/as]
2. countable noun B1+
A role is one of the characters that an actor or singer can play in a film, play, or opera.
She has just landed the lead role in The Young Vic's latest production.
Shakespearean women's roles were originally written to be played by men.
Collocations:
big role
A name you don't recognise will soon play a big role in your life.
The Sun (2016)
Food plays a big role in showing off wealth.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Hard, personal, negative campaigning has played a bigger role in the outcome of successive presidential elections than is desirable.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
combat role
In America, during World War II military women did not serve in combat roles.
Christianity Today (2000)
Nato troops would still play a combat role but with Afghans in the lead.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The British trainers will have no combat role.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
critical role
The EU aid plays a critical role in tackling global poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Strong partnerships between all agencies play a critical role in ensuring that children get the best possible support, she says.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Up to 70,000 people will spend their summer holidays carrying out the critical role of helping competitors, officials and spectators from around the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
defensive role
The 33-year-old is now playing a more defensive role for Liverpool.
The Sun (2014)
She is back in a defensive role after time as a striker.
The Sun (2010)
He has been revitalised in a defensive midfield role and hits a mean free-kick.
The Sun (2015)
defined role
In most families, mothers and fathers have very defined roles.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Volunteers have clearly defined roles and are expected to work two to four days a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In the region's strongly patriarchal societies gender roles are strictly defined.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
dominant role
It is too often the full-time officials who play the dominant role.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He did not challenge the military's dominant role in the country's politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You work well in a group, but this week take on a more dominant role as leader.
The Sun (2015)
film role
Then his first film role, in A Hill in Korea, was a disaster.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I'm an actor and I'm definitely ready to get a really good film role.
The Sun (2014)
Angelina Jolie says that when it comes to film roles she doesn't like to play nice.
The Sun (2014)
fulfil a role
No matter how much I try, I can't fulfil that role.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
BBC Radio 6 Music fulfils a vital role in discovering and promoting new alternative performers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The military sources said: 'These countries are having to fulfil the role of a reserve force on top of all their other duties.'
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
important role
Social media has an important role to play here.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Sunday Times is playing an important role in exposing the modern slave trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An important role of the gene bank is safeguarding traits particular to various breeds.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
influential role
We could play a more influential role in shaping the structure and direction of Europe.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Chinese intellectuals often had politically influential roles, which may explain their emphasis on the practical rather than the theoretical.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He led the British negotiations but played a wider and influential role.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
major role
I think we play a major role right now in terms of the healing process.
Christianity Today (2000)
The West's growing technological sophistication played a major role.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
If he isn't playing a major role now that could be a part of the problem.
The Sun (2013)
minor role
They played a minor role in the Olympics, writing the introductory music for the table tennis.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She may find it hard to play a more minor role in the life of your daughter.
The Sun (2006)
What is clear from these five people is that formal ideology played a relatively minor role in drawing them to labor politics.
A Social History of Modern Spain (1991)
movie role
The producers had approached another actor to take on the movie role.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We keep being told that he has grown the beard for a movie role.
The Sun (2010)
A British actor won the plum movie role of Spider-Man.
The Sun (2010)
pivotal role
In love, genuine affection plays a pivotal role in making a relationship feel secure.
The Sun (2016)
Would he have performed such a pivotal role in the civil rights movement?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This interest derives from the pivotal role which price plays in the exchange process between buyers and sellers.
Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)
role in society
Accept your changing role in society and choose to adopt a positive and enthusiastic approach to the future.
Times, Sunday Times
It was also the composers and their role in society that evolved, so they went from 'below-stairs to high table'.
Times, Sunday Times
In recent years, our focus has been to help people to play a full role in society.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems the famous couple don't fully understand their role in society.
Times, Sunday Times
How do you feel your new appointment can be effective in the project and its role in society?
ST
screen role
Her first screen roles were as an extra for around $10 or $12 a day.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This could well turn out to be one of the finest screen roles of his career.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But he has played only minor screen roles since, one in a Channel 4 mini-series, plus stage work.
The Sun (2016)
secondary role
In this there would be no realistic victor, and conventional forces would consequently play very much a secondary role.
Mcinnes, Colin & Sheffield G.D (eds.) Warfare in the Twentieth Century (1988)
The logic of this bleak conviction was that fighters would have only a secondary role to play.
Patrick Bishop FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940 (2003)
There was a secondary role for adult chum salmon and watershed size, followed by other physical characteristics of streams.
Michelle C Nelson, John D Reynolds 2014, 'Time-delayed subsidies: interspecies population effects in salmon.', PLoS ONE
This demonstrates a secondary role of the fluctuational potential in the present case.
S.V. Luniov, P.F. Nazarchuk, A.I. Zimych, Yu.A. Udovytska, O.V. Burban 2019, 'Mechanisms of electron scattering in uniaxially deformed n-Ge⟨Sb, Au⟩ single crystals', Condensed Matter Physics
significant role
Demand in this sector has played a significant role in pushing up house prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There is no doubt that emotions play a significant role, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Cricketers have played a significant role in the cultural and historic fabric of the nation.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
strengthen the role of
It is inclined, instead, to strengthen the role of company audit committees.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The problem comes down to the best way to strengthen the role of marriage in our culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That's why we are determined to strengthen the role of ministers in permanent secretary appointments.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
traditional role
An educated congregation, still having the traditional role in mind, will no doubt have some questions about your absence.
Christianity Today
Yet credit was plentiful only because lenders had abdicated their traditional role.
Times, Sunday Times
These judgments risk outlawing the traditional role of the media in exposing the moral shortcomings of those who wield power.
Times, Sunday Times
The change for midwives would indeed be a radical departure from the traditional role they provide, and their opinion matters.
Times, Sunday Times
Regulation and capital rules have led banks to abandon their traditional role as giant shock absorbers.
Times, Sunday Times
unique role
This country played a unique role in securing his defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
Fiction has a unique role in providing this understanding.
Times, Sunday Times
Family members play a unique role in keeping ministry skills sharp.
Christianity Today
Farmers believe they play a unique role as stewards of the environment, and often are penalized financially for doing so.
Christianity Today
Pastors need to establish a working relationship with a therapist who recognizes the unique role of the pastor.
Christianity Today
vital role
New recruits will spend time learning about Army air support's vital role in war zones.
The Sun (2008)
Schools, too, have a vital role to play.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Zinc is a mineral that plays a vital role in the health of our immune systems.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Translations:
Chinese: 角色
Japanese: 役割
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