The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.

墙面不是白的，而是灰不溜秋的。

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It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.

从传统意义上来说，这并不是一个旅馆，而是变成了旅馆的整个村庄。

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What is so impressive about it, however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse — the thrifty compactness of its construction.

然而，令人印象深刻的不是它的冗长，恰恰相反——是它简洁紧凑的结构。

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He also said: "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."

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The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry, in Crane.

基督教信仰和践行的衰败,在克莱恩看来，并不是损失，反而是诗歌新生的机会。

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But you're really seeing it turning into a direction where I would rather not see it go.

但你看到了它正在朝着我不愿意看到的方向转变。

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Their predictions, while badly inaccurate, were not random but rather highly correlated with each other.

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"What China lacks is not money but rather clean government, " said lawmaker Claudia Mo.

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His concern is not culture but rather the coming cash crunch.

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