Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.

她不走平常向南去亚历山大和家乡的路，而是向西走。

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She goes to a war instead of her father and has become a well-known heroine.

她代父从军，成为了著名的女英雄。

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Instead of her having to walk on through this ugly place...

她也就不用穿过这么丑恶的地方了。

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Some of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance criticized her for writing about black culture instead of relations between the races.

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You have the young storm god, Marduk, who defeats Tiamat, the watery ferocious deep monster, and does so by blasting a wind into her and so establishes his claim to rule, instead of the old sky god, Anu.

年轻的暴风之神Marduk，凭借一阵狂风，打败了Tiamat-在深水凶猛的怪物,他取代了天空之神Anu，建立了自己的统治。

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The young man's eyes instead were fixed on the princess, who sat to the right of her father.

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She said she believes she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of her daily thyroid medication.

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She curls her feet beneath her on the couch, where she prefers to sleep instead of her bed.

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For five weeks, she was forced to sleep in a chair and use a commode instead of her toilet.

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