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（资源）是系统的一个很重要的方面，它通常在全部的应用程序中起到支持的作用，但不是系统的主要焦点。
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would play a supporting role in the information highway of the future, rather than being the highway itself, was out-of-date the day The Road Ahead was published.
盖茨的观点是互联网将在未来的信息高速公路中扮演一个辅助性的角色，而不会成为信息高速公路本身；这个观点在《未来之路》出版的时代就已经过时了。
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.
委员会在强调其对欧盟翻译协会支持的同时，表明他们会像尊重欧盟的核心价值一样尊重文化的多样性。

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

支撑作用
Natural monopoly industry is the basic industry of national economy and has important supporting role on the national economy.
自然垄断产业是国民经济的基础产业,对国民经济具有重要的支撑作用。
文学
支撑作用
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.
上述作用的合力,构成村镇和谐文化建设对于和谐村镇建设的强大精神支撑作用。
电子、通信与自动控制技术
配角