When Hofmann made some passing comments about the desirability of a synthetic substitute for quinine, it was unsurprising that his star pupil was moved to take up the challenge.

当霍夫曼对奎宁的合成替代物的可取性发表完一些简短的评论后，他的得意门生接受挑战也就不足为奇了。

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Business sponsorship must be a supplement to, not a substitute for, public funding.

商业赞助必须是公共资助的补充而非替代物。

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"The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting," says Reimann.

“参与者愿意用食物的一部分，来换取得到相对较小金钱奖励的可能性，这一点很有意思。”赖曼说。

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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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The same thing occurred as the cell phone evolved from a substitute for telephone land-lines and handsets to a substitute for cameras, calculators, music players, game players, personal digital assistants and much more.

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Fifteen years ago, he was also singing with a local opera company when he got a call to substitute for a singer at the Sydney Opera House.

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At the same time that Amgen is getting ready to launch its own biosimilars, Amgen and other biotechs are campaigning state governments to make it harder to substitute a biogeneric for a brand.

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