Whenever I paid attention to what I wanted to do, joy usually took the place of fear.

每当我专注于自己想做的事情时，快乐往往会取代恐惧。

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The first female troupe (剧团) of Yue opera was created in 1923, and then female performers gradually took the place of the males.

1923年，第一个女子越剧团成立，随后女演员逐渐取代了男演员的位置。

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Open fields took the place of forests.

裸露的田地取代了树林。

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Douglas argued that the compromise of eighteen fifty took the place of the earlier Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty.

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Canaanite religious ritual took place in small temples that housed cultic statues. There were stone pillars, perhaps symbols of the gods, or memorials to the dead.

迦南的宗教仪式在小庙中进行,里面有宗教神像，有石柱，它们也许代表上帝也可能是祭奠死者。

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And he took leave of him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

便在那里跟雅各告别，雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说，“我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全，“

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Computers took the place of word processors and smart phones and tablets have all but replaced computers.

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They took the place of bungalows which were originally built in the 1960s but since deemed unsafe.

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Reason: The device took the place of a cruiser's stereo, and cops on patrol want to listen to music.

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