He would remain a virgin in order to prepare for and to maintain this incredibly important role as an epic poet.

他想保持自己的童贞,为了准备和保持作为史诗诗人这个无比重要的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think that America has an important role to play to have the standards increased.

我觉得美国在提高标准方面扮演着重要的角色。

爱护小朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And I came to hope about ten years later, you had an important role in that, that I thought you may try to put the two together.

我希望十年后，当你们有一定生活阅历了，你们就可以把这两部影片对比着来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I think we have an important role for economic, financial education.

我想我们必须对经济及金融学教育,提起重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The respiratory system plays an important role in maintaining our internal environment at the proper level of oxygen, by bringing the right amount in.

呼吸系统的重要性在于,通过向体内输入适量的氧气,维持人体内环境中的氧平衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

So the link of the conflict will play a stronger role in making the humanitarian issues more important.

因而冲突的纽带将会发挥更大的作用,使得人道主义问题更加重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And in his role here as a mute, as an infant, Christ is serving, I think, an important function for Milton.

作为一个哑巴，一个婴儿，基督对，弥尔顿起了很重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As independent defenders of the common safety and the common interest, they demanded a role in the most important political decisions.

作为独立的捍卫者,他们享有共同的,集体安全与共同利益,他们要求参与,关键的政治决策

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I took my role to sniff that out, and to make sure the president heard 2 and 4 on an important issue, and was able to make the decision himself.

我的作用就是发现这些，保证总统可以听到2和4这两个观点4,在一些重要问题上，然后他能自己做决定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So it's important to realize the role of ceramics; they need to make storage jars that could be sealed very well and preserve the stuff for a very long time, and indeed, they did that.

从中希腊人意识到陶艺的重要性,他们需要烧制可以密封得很好的,可以用来长久保存食物的陶罐,他们也的确这样做了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's a very important industry and it's also one in which many of our students have found jobs, so I think it's important for us to try to understand the history of investment banks, the role they have in our financial community, and how they're regulated.

投资银行是一个非常重要的行业,我们许多学生都在投资银行工作,我们需要,了解投资银行的历史,在我们金融业扮演的角色,以及人们如何监管投资银行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选