And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed, our hero takes his place.

所以当另一个人被装在车里押到断头台行刑时，我们的主角就代替了他。

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So you might say,in some loose sense they've gotten your haircut.

所以你也可以笼统地说他代替你剪了头发。

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He doesn't take over the death of the other man.

他并没有代替另一个人的死亡。

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He substituted for you in the death.

他就代替了你而死。

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Well,I suppose it doesn't strike me as an implausible thing to say that if everybody in the troop got killed and you would have gotten killed had you been there, but instead,the person you hired to take your place gets killed, then he took your place.

我想可以这么说,如果大家都被杀死，而你若是在战场上也被杀了，但被杀的却是你花钱雇来的人，他就代替了你。

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Well,easy to imagine the fan of this view coming back yet again and saying, Although it's true that our hero takes the place of the other man on the guillotine, what ends up happening,of course,is that our hero dies his own death.

很容易想象这种观点的支持者会反驳说，虽然的确我们的主角是代替了别人上断头台，但结果还是他独自经历死亡。

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