他刚写完一本书,插图精美,专业性也不是太强。
He's just written a book, nicely illustrated and not too technical.
然而,对于模因来说,准确性却不是很重要的因素。
但该裁决强化了确保公民和他们选出的代表——而不是法院——平等接触政府的必要性。
But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.
这个机构是义务性的,不是为了赢利。
业界代表们申明他们只承诺维持森林的规模而不是其生物多样性。
Industry representatives made it clear that their commitment was only to maintain the extent of forests, not their biodiversity.
他喜欢她整个人,而不是仅仅把她当作性对象。
He cared for her as a whole person rather than just a sex object.
你最后得到的是一些杂会七杂八的政策,而不是统一的全国性措施。
You end up with a mishmash of policies rather than a consistent national approach.
攻击性决不是男性独有的特征。
为什么爆炸不是灾难性的?
确保网络空间的安全是困难的,因为互联网的架构旨在促进互联性,而不是安全。
Securing cyberspace is hard because the architecture of the internet was designed to promote connectivity, not security.
可预测性并不是减少或消除噪音负面影响的唯一变量。
Predictability is not the only variable that reduces or eliminates the negative effects of noise.
但如果这是战略性的,就不是吗?
对人类的大脑来说,真相和准确性并不是唯一重要的东西。
Truth and accuracy are not the only things that matter to the human mind.
一些食用植物,如可乐和秋葵,已在西非培育,但它们都是补充性食物,而不是主食。
Several food plants, such as kola and okra, are known to have been domesticated in western Africa, but they are all supplemental, not staple, foods.
这不仅仅是在取笑莎莉,而是在说我们学校位置比较偏僻,不是在什么世界性的大都市。
It wasn't just poking fun at Sally, but the whole idea that our school is sort of rural, and you know, not cosmopolitan.
像阿特·塔图姆这样的人可以让我坐起来并留心倾听,但有些音乐,像说唱,不是很有音乐性,我不能从中感悟出任何东西。
Somebody like Art Tatum can make me sit up and take notice, but some music, like rap, isn't very musical and I can't learn anything from it.
一个是人类生存的首要因素似乎是人类在智力上胜过其他物种的能力,而不是他们的侵略性。
One is that people's capacity to outwit other species, not their aggressiveness, appears to be the dominant factor in human survival.
如果你想致富,而不是让自己成为全球性变革的受害者,重要的一点就是你要开发最强大的杠杆:您的大脑。
If you want to become rich and not be a victim of global changes, it is important that you develop the greatest lever of all: your mind.
我希望每个人都分成小组,拿出一些例子,不是好的广告信息,而是真正灾难性的信息。
I want everyone to get into small groups and come up with some examples, not of good advertising messages, but of truly disastrous ones.
至少在温带地区,最大的多样性通常出现在演替中期,而不是在顶极群落中。
At least in temperate zones, maximum diversity is often found in mid-successional stages, not in the climax community.
对于强制性退休,泰勒似乎忘记了这并不是由大学废除的,各个大学是希望恢复这个制度的。
As for mandatory retirement, Taylor seems to forget that this was not abolished by the universities, which would love to bring it back.
我的儿子疯了;但不是永久性的。
因为它们的主要用途不是功能性的,所以它们只在制造材料方面受到限制。
Because their primary purpose is not functional, they are only limited in terms of the materials used to make them.
天才的主要标志不是完美,而是独创性,即开拓新的领域。
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
我们不能排除这一可能性,那就是气候变化不是人类活动导致的结果。
We cannot rule out the possibility that climate change is not the result of human activities.
但这并不是唯一的指标,而且矛盾的是,它的重要性正在下降。
But it's not the only indicator and, paradoxically, its significance is declining.
“我并不是说这个挑战不是压倒性的。”弗雷德·克虏伯说。
"I'm not saying the challenge isn't almost overwhelming," says Fred Krupp.
为15万幸存者提供医疗服务、食物和住所的营地已经开始关闭,因为它们本来就不是长期性的。
Camps that provided health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were never intended to be permanent.
时间,而不是意图,赋予了他们合法性。
时间,而不是意图,赋予了他们合法性。
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