Unlike an exquisite painting or a strand of natural pearls, both of which tend to survive dinner parties intact, top wines are finite and ersatz bottles are rampant.

一瓶顶级葡萄酒与一幅精美的绘画或一串天然珍珠不同，后者都能在晚宴后安然无恙地保存下来，但顶级葡萄酒的数量是有限的，而且赝品猖獗。

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This ersatz lung, no bigger than a multivitamin, could represent a new pharmaceutical testing method.

大小不大于一个复合维生素片, 极有可能代表着新一种的药品检测方式。

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Guri was a lethal assassin, capable of killing in the blink of an eye without even raising her ersatz heartbeat.

古丽是一个致命的杀手，能杀人于转瞬之间，且面不改色心不跳。

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Perhaps the most extraordinary example is Mountain's Edge, a half-built suburb near Las Vegas, where an ersatz archaeological dig has been incorporated into a park.

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Quite a lot of ersatz Holmes betrays itself in the field of idiom, but Mr. Horowitz turns out to be notably sure-footed.

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There, men photograph their children in front of ersatz Mayan fountains and what looks like a Baroque church (actually a market where you can buy shoes, basketball shirts and pet rabbits).

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