Men fantasize as a substitute for acting out forbidden desires.

人们以幻想来作为宣泄禁欲的替代方式。

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She is seeking a substitute for the very man whose departure made her cry.

他在寻找一个男人的替代者，这个男人的离去曾使她伤心落泪。

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Of course, computer simulations are not a substitute for hard evidence.

当然，计算机模拟并不能代替确凿的证据。

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And people are gonna have to learn about sablefish - which is a beautiful substitute for it, but yet it's not commonly known."

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But again, attending to the slides is not a substitute for attending class.

但我要强调,看课件绝对不可能替代上课

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I don't know that I have an answer to this, but perhaps the Republic as a whole is itself a piece of this Socratic poetry that will substitute for the Homeric kind.

我不确定我对这有预备答案，但也许整部《理想国》,就是一部苏老式的诗学,用以取代荷马史诗。

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It said gunpowder or powder from fireworks can be used as a substitute for match heads.

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Scale is not a substitute for radical invention, and the Chinese bureaucracy chronically discourages risk.

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Anybody who thinks gold is a substitute for productivity is not a productive thinker.

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