Today, the smaller city of Xi’an occupies the place where Chang’an once stood.

今天，伫立在唐长安城旧址上的是核心城区面积略小的西安市。

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Agriculture occupies an important place in the national economy.

农业在国民经济中占有重要地位。

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He occupies a three-story dwelling place on the Park Street.

他在派克街上有一幢3层楼的寓所。

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The master occupies toward him the place of parent or guardian.

主人的身份就像是家长或监护人

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Today the diner occupies a place in the American heartland.

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Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.

WSJ: The Philippines's Strange Paradise

The numbers of African-Americans returning to the South are not as large as those seen during the Great Migration, but the trend has resonance because of the place the region occupies in black history and mythology.

CNN: Family roots lure many African-Americans back to South