the second fiddle

常见例句

Wilson even picked on the little guy, too — calling Gowalla “the second fiddle” in the social location space versus Foursquare.
威尔逊甚至还拿个小网站——叫做Gowalla“第二小提琴”作为Foursquare在社区空间的对手。
For one thing, work on the framework plays second fiddle to work on the actual application, so it's progressing slowly, mostly as 20% work.
原因之一在于我们只能把开发框架安排在比开发相应实际应用次要的位置，最多不过20%的工作时间，所以它的进展一直比较缓慢。
While Rourke’s role in the film was second fiddle to Keira Knightley, he managed to make his character cool just by playing him.
虽然电影中洛克的角色只是凯拉·奈特莉的副手，他还是靠本色演出就锋芒毕露。

His thesis is that Europe's increasing friction with the U.S. is a natural outgrowth of the second-fiddle role the continent is destined to play in world affairs.
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The environment plays second fiddle to the economy, says Wacker.
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It shows that he is willing to put an intellectual in charge of an important issue. (Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, will play second fiddle to the university professor.) But it also shows that Mr Bush has a shrewd sense of how to use intellectuals to advance his agenda.
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