Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.

相反，南方的奴隶主误认为9世纪30年代的废奴主义观点是主流，而不是北方边缘的公众意见，于是他们普遍谴责北方人反对奴隶制。

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Instead, fish reared in high-density situations may learn that conspecifics are to be viewed as competitors, rather than as potential sources of adaptive information.

"相反，在高密度情况下饲养的鱼类可能会了解到，同种物种应被视为竞争者，而不是适应性信息的潜在来源。

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This is because of the following three reasons: Firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief.

这是因为以下三个原因：第一，小偷只偷我的东西，而没有伤害我；其次，小偷偷走了我的一些东西，而不是我所有的东西；第三，对我来说最幸运的是，成为小偷的是那个人，不是我。

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But face it: If you had millions in the bank, you'd quickly realize that you wanted a Ferrari rather than a Corvette , a Range Rover instead of a Cadillac Escalade, and so on.

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If its borders were inscribed by ethnicity or language rather than religion, Pakistan might be six nations instead of one.

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They use glass fibres rather than carbon fibres in their composite and, instead of adding capsules, they have put the healing molecules into the fibres themselves.

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