No other European nation sipped tea like the British, which, by Macfarlanes logic, pushed these other countries out of contention for the revolution.

没有其他欧洲国家像英国那样嗜茶，按照麦克法兰的逻辑，英国把其他国家赶出了这场革命的争夺。

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And that can take a candidate out of contention.

而且这样可以让一个应聘者从竞争中脱颖而出。

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This behaviour should be enough to rule him out of contention for any responsible position.

仅凭这种行为，就足以把他排除在任何要职的参考人选之外。

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Even later, when the dilettantes had mostly dropped out of contention, there was no standardized equipment.

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