Substitute

(noun.) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another.

(noun.) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced.

(verb.) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; 'the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt'; 'substitute regular milk with fat-free milk'; 'synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning'.

(verb.) be a substitute; 'The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague'; 'The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet'.

(verb.) act as a substitute; 'She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold'.

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• A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I can substitute some other plans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It occupies a particular place in life; it serves its own end, which cannot be supplied by a substitute. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A very good substitute for it, at all events,' replied Mr. Pickwick, laughing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The Lord High Chancellor, at his best, appeared so poor a substitute for the love and pride of parents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The room had once been lighted by a small side window, but this had been bricked up, and a lantern skylight was now substituted for it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The standard Edison meter practice was to remove the cells once a month to the meter-room of the central-station company for examination, another set being substituted. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The principal silage crop is corn, but in different parts of the country there are other crops which can be used to great advantage as substitutes for corn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This instrument can also be used to indicate minute changes of moisture in the air by substituting a strip of gelatine in place of the vulcanite. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I answer this objection by substituting a juster idea of penetration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now engaged in substituting for her green kid gloves a pair of white. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mr. Callahan removed the two dials, and, substituting type wheels, turned the movements face to face, so that each type wheel could imprint its characters upon a paper tape in two lines. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:塞勒斯特