人的品德不是由遗传而是由环境形成的。
The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment.
首先，我意识到让人凌晨4点起床的噪音不是普通的无礼，而是精心制造的恶意：在过去的圣诞节里，我没有给拉乌尔小费。
With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past.
7点钟，管弦乐队来了——不是单薄的五个人演奏的乐曲，而是满满一大堆双簧管、长号、萨克斯管、弦乐器、小号、短笛和高低鼓点。
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
这些人不努力工作去创造机会，而是消极地等待着成功的到来。
Instead of working hard to create some chances, these people wait passively for the arrival of success.
这些人不使用精确的词语来表示数量，而是只使用类似于 “a few”或 “some” 的词语。
Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms similar to "a few" or "some."
问题不仅仅是一个人被打断；而是一个人实际上倾向于被打断。
It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption.
这种健康的大米不是由农民种植的，而是由一个只有大约50人的小型小学的学生种植的。
The healthy rice was not grown by farmers but by the students from a small primary school of only about fifty people.
一位评论家对这位哲学家的新著作的回应，并不是说它所采取的立场是异端邪说，就像有些人断言的那样，而是对任何对这个话题有所了解的人来说，它都不是什么新鲜事。
One critic's response to the philosopher's new work is not that the position it takes is heretical, as some have asserted, but instead nothing new to anyone who knows anything about the topic.
不只是蓝领工人失去了工作，而是每一个人。
It wasn't just the blue-collar workers who lost their jobs, it was everyone.
在你控制之下的这些人并非宾客，而是人质。
农业似乎是从近东传播给这些人的，因为最早驯养的农作物是小米和高粱，起源并非非洲而是西亚。
Agriculture seems to have reached these people from the Near East, since the first domesticated crops were millets and sorghums whose origins are not African but west Asian.
阿拉伯人没有偶尔眨眼，而是慢慢地、懒洋洋地垂下眼睑，她确信他们已经睡着了。
Instead of the occasional blink, Arabs lowered their lids so slowly and languorously that she was convinced they were falling asleep.
未来威胁人类的不是外星人，也不是罕见的疾病，而是气候变化。
It's neither aliens nor a rare disease that will threaten the human race in the future, but climate change.
但奥士博这款机器人跟其他社交机器人一样，不是为了取代职工，而是为了与其他员工一起工作。
But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.
老年人折扣已不再像过去那样是一种慈善活动，而是一种令人敬畏的经济特权，属于这个有数百万不需要该折扣的成员的群体。
Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don't need them.
对他们中的一些人来说，他们大部分时间甚至都不是用来给画作拍照，而是以画作为背景给自己拍照。
Much of that time, for some of them, is spent taking photographs not even of the painting but of themselves with the painting in the background.
有些人不是等着看眼泪是否会起作用，而是用护目镜。
Instead of waiting to see if tears will help, some people use goggles.
不是环境本身，而是人与环境之间的一种互动，会带来更美好或更糟糕的体验。
It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences.
很难估计有多少年轻人接受家庭教育，在家庭教育中孩子没有被送去学校，而是从父母一方或双方那里接受他们的正式教育。
It's difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents.
并不是没有人关心你，而是在大学里，人们突然期望你表现得像个成年人。
It's not that nobody concerned about you, it's just that suddenly at the university you are expected to behave like an adult.
他在业余时间会与钢琴家玛丽亚·拉斯波波娃一起登上舞台——不是作为音乐家，而是作为她的翻页人。
In his spare time though he goes on stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova—not as a musician but as her page turner.
我们看一个人，不是根据他的表白，而是根据他的行动。
重点倒不在瑞典人读书与否，而是他们读的都是些什么书。
It's not whether the Swedes are reading - it's what they are reading.
使人上瘾的并不是科技本身，而是对选择的具体实际应用。
It is not the technology itself that is addictive, but rather the specific application-of-choice.
有些人永远不会长大，而是卡在了常人成长的某个阶段。
Some people never grow up but get stuck in one phase or another of human development.
杀害无辜的以色列人的作法并不是抵抗，而是不公。
The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance, it's injustice.
这不只是对我们中一部分人的要求，而是对我们所有人。
不仅是你喜欢的人或是与你相处好的人，而是每一个人。
Not just the people you like, or the people you get along with, but everyone.
原因不是因为他们打了人，而是因为他们打了某位重要人物的妻子。
Not because they had beat up someone but because they had beat up the wife of someone important.
一些人说，快乐并不是拥有你想要的东西，而是想要你已经拥有的。
Some have said that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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