Margarine can be substituted for butter in this recipe.

做这道菜可以用人造黄油代替黄油。

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According to the researchers, the participants' phones apparently substituted for real friends.

按照研究人员的说法，参与者的手机很明显代替了真正的朋友。

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Ducklings may follow a basketball or a briefcase if these are substituted for the mother duck at the time when imprinting occurs.

如果一个篮球或公文包在印记发生的时候代替母鸭，小鸭子可能会跟随它们。

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He substituted for you in the death.

他就代替了你而死。

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The argument Derrida is making about the emergence of his "event" is that a new transcendental signified has actually substituted itself for man.

德里达有关他的“事件“产生的论点是“,新的超验所,指已经取代了人类。

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On a large scale, cheap fish is being substituted for expensive fish without the consumer knowing.

BBC: Mislabelled fish slip into Europe's menus

Gas has become so cheap that it can be substituted for coal as an electricity-generating fuel.

CNN: 'Peak oil' doomsayers proved wrong

Advocates admit that the only way coins can be substituted for paper is to remove the paper version from circulation.

FORBES: NO PEEPING WITHOUT PERMISSION