More prudent spending took the place of shopping sprees.

更谨慎的消费取了疯狂的购物。

Alice takes the place of the March Hare.

爱丽丝占了三月兔的位置。

Are you taking the place of the watchdog?

“你在替看门狗看门？”

They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.

这和一般小说的情节大不相同呢。

Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns.

词是用来替词的词。

It takes the place of a larger group of words.

它取了更大的一组词。

It takes the place of some of the oxygen in her blood.

一氧化碳取了血液中的一些氧气。

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

直到后悔取了梦想，一个人才算老。

Now, the pronoun basically takes the place of a noun. All right?

词是替词的。没错吧？

Clearly, there must be something else that takes the place of rain.

显然，这里必须有其它东西能替雨水的作用。

Of such was Strickland, only beauty with him took the place of truth.

思特里克兰德就是这样一个人；只不过他追求的是美，而不是真理。

A pinch-hitter takes the place of someone else at a job or activity.

一个pinch-hitter替别人参与工作或活动。

These can take the place of lost or damaged cards.

这些卡片可以替丢失或损坏的卡片。

That is because areas of dark water take the place of the sea ice.

这是因为黑水区域取了海冰。

An emblem is a physical act that can fully take the place of words.

象征性动作是一种能够完全替言语的身体行为。

Confederate leaders no longer could find soldiers to take the places of those who left.

联盟国的领导人再也找不到人来接替那些逃跑的士兵。

Then she started weaving something to take the place of the threads she had removed.

然后它开始织起什么东西来，替它拉掉的丝。

They took the place of mastodons and the larger stag-moose, both of which became extinct.

他们取了乳齿象和体型较大的牡鹿，这两种动物已经灭绝了。

These movements can also take the place of punctuation, such as commas or question marks.

这些变换也可以替标点符号，如逗号或问号。

Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns in a sentence.

词是在句子中替词的词。