"Attend a sleepover,have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play, get any grade less than an A."

VOA: special.2011.02.17

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

I'm interested in sports. I'm an avid fan and I, you know, play when I have time.

我对体育非常着迷，是一个狂热的体育迷。我一有时间就去运动。

广播人员怎么样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Orchids play an important part in special events in that country and on that country's money.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

So the book is really an effort to answer what role America should play in the world.

这本书事实上是在试图,回答美国在世界这个大环境中应该扮演怎样的角色。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I'm Doug Johnson. Today on our program, we visit an art exhibit by film director Tim Burton, play music by Vampire Weekend, and answer a question about religion in America.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There is clearly some kind of an official group that has some sort of political role to play, which is popular in its character.

很显然需要有一个官方组织,扮演某种政治角色,从属性上来说这很常见

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Sharks play an important role in the food chain.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

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

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One early submission is a dice game made of scrap material by an inmate who also included detailed, handwritten instructions on how to play the game he invented in his cell.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

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

And for all the women who have come to play in the Olympic hockey tournament and for any athlete who is here it's about being an Olympian and coming to and Olympic Games, so we hope they had a great experience."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

For the parents to play an active role in their kids' lives,

对家长而言，在孩子的生活中扮演积极的角色，

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mechanisms like habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning are real; they can be scientifically studied; and they play an important role in the lives of animals and probably an important role in human lives as well.

诸如习惯化，经典条件作用，操作性条件作用之类的机制,都是真实存在的;,这些机制都能得到科学的研究;,它们在动物的生活里起到了重要的作用,或许在我们人类的生活中,也同样起到了重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Let's listen to an erhu play a melody by a traditional Chinese composer— we call him in English "Abbing" and you can read about him there in your textbook.

让我们听听一段二胡旋律吧,它由一位中国早年的作曲家创作,英语中我们称呼他Abbing,当然,课本上有他相关的信息

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选