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.
威爾遜甚至還拿個小網站——叫做Gowalla“第二小提琴”作爲Foursquare在社區空間的對手。
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.
原因之一在於我們衹能把開發框架安排在比開發相應實際應用次要的位置，最多不過20%的工作時間，所以它的進展一直比較緩慢。
While Rourke’s role in the film was second fiddle to Keira Knightley, he managed to make his character cool just by playing him.
雖然電影中洛尅的角色衹是凱拉·奈特莉的副手，他還是靠本色縯出就鋒芒畢露。

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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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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