And then these things, these body parts, are then referred to with the pronoun "it"; "it," the hand, did this or that.

这些身体部分后来，都被“它“这个词代替了，都是写“它“做了这，做了那。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And now in the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a small experiment, which is intended to show how we can be replaced by a computer.

在前几周内，我一直在做一个,小实验，打算,说明我们怎么样才能被计算机代替。

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And s is this lowercase notation l that the spectroscopists use in place of the l number.

而s这个小写字母,被光谱学家用来代替数字。

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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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