And it's all for a position that's mostly ceremonial.

天皇的重要地位多是出于仪式上的需要。

Mr Bartlett held influential economic positions during the country's last great spasm of reform in the 1980s, but he is now held an apostate by many Republicans, for whom the only acceptable tax changes are cuts.

在上世纪80年代的美国改革阵痛中，巴特莱特先生确立了他在经济领域的重要地位，然而现在许多共和党人视他为“叛徒”，因为以接受的税改方案因他而被删除。

Some chemical reactions proceed with alacrity. Most, though-including many that are industrially important-need a helping hand in the form of a catalyst.

有些化学反应进行得很快。然而，大多数企业，包括许多在工业领域具有重要地位的企业需要催化剂的帮助。

Though social media and messaging apps have taken over some of the roles from email as a form of communication, email is likely to retain an important role for business communication in the future.

尽管社交媒体和信息软件已经取代了电子邮件作为通信方式的分角色，但电子邮件仍能在未来的商业交流中占有重要的地位。

New evidence shows why getting enough sleep is a top priority.

有新证据证明了充足睡眠的头等重要地位。

In China's thousands year-old history of agriculture, soybean has long occupied an important position.

在中国几千年的农耕史中大豆直占据着重要的地位。

But a small sign on the building points out its important place in music history.

但是上的个小标志指出了它在音乐史上的重要地位。

Later, the capital moved to Wellington, because it was more central.

后来，首都迁移到惠灵顿，因为它处于更重要的地位。

That's why the cooperation in high tech is of great importance to our bilateral relations.

因此，高科技领域的合作在双边关系中占据着很重要的地位。

Nonetheless, her victory does highlight the position of women in cinema.

然而，她的成功确实凸显了女性在电影业的重要地位。

She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of India.

她也是帕西人，帕西人在印度各族中占着最重要的地位。

In fact, it only became important in the 1980s.

事实上，它的重要地位是在80年代开始显现的。

The splicing and piling of bricks and stones show superb skills.

从历史沿革的角度来看，嘉峪关有着重要的地位。

Equality means putting the same ambition into organizing the Paralympic Games as the Olympic Games.

平等方面意味着奥运会和残奥会在筹办过程中占有同样重要的地位。

Big security detail I'm doing. Very high profile client.

我在保护很重要的人 地位相当尊贵的客户。

For in men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes its place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life.

般说来，爱情在男人身上只不过是个插曲，是日常生活中许多事务中的件事，但是小说却把爱情夸大了，给予它个违反生活真实性的重要的地位。

And since small firms are so vital, one of the measures of economic health in the euro area is how cleanly the interest rates set by the European Central Bank (ECB) feed through to the rates that firms pay.

鉴于中小企业的重要地位，让由欧洲央行确定的利率与公司支付的利率尽量持平成为促进欧元区经济健康发展的措施之。

He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.

十九世纪初，他度让拿破仑的名字给取代了。但是，随着时间的推移，后者变得陈腐失效，从前那句老话又恢复了它原来的重要地位。

These four little clay cows are a long way from the glamour of the pharaohs, but you could argue that cows and what they represent have been far more important to human history.

当年这四只小小的陶牛与法老们辉煌与伟大真是无从相比，然而你也以这么说，这些陶牛及其代表的意义在人类历史上以占有更加重要的地位。

This small country with a land area only slightly larger than London already occupies quite an important position in the space industry.

这个国土面积仅略大于伦敦的小国，在航天工业中已经占有相当重要的地位。