This point would have made a worthwhile footnote. As a substitute for an account of what happened, it is a cop-out.

这一点若作为脚注应当合情合理，可用来取代对事件真相的记述，就只能是一种回避事实的托词而已。

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Please note that this is not a substitute for severe weather alert systems or designed to produce reliable precipitation forecasts.

请注意，这不是恶劣气象警报系统的替代品，也不旨在提供可靠的降水预报。

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Threat of substitute products: a segment is unattractive if there exists actual or potential substitutes for the product &this place a limit on the potential prices &profits.

替代产品的威胁：如果存在现有的或潜在的替代品，区间也不怎么有吸引力，因为潜在的价格和利润很有限。

youdao

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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