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。
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。
There are no hard and fast rules, but rather traditional guidelines as to who pays for what.
关于谁来支付什么费用并没有一定要遵守的规定，只有传统的准则。
Also, skilled artisans did not work by the clock, at a steady pace, but rather in bursts of intense labor alternating with more leisurely time.
同时，技艺纯熟的工匠师傅们并不会按照时间来稳步地安排工作，他们更喜欢享受更多闲暇时间与集中赶工相交替的生产方式。
The issue is not development time, but rather the full time between project inception and delivery.
这个问题不是开发时间，而是从项目开始到交付的全部时间。
Post wants to make clear that she's not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences.
波斯特想要表明，她谈论的不是法律权利，而是个人偏好。
The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry in Crane.
在克莱恩看来，基督教信仰和践行的衰败，并不是损失，反而是诗歌新生的机会。
What highly creative artistic activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular.
具有高度创造性的艺术活动所产生的并不是一种超越既定界限的新的概括，而是一种美学上的特殊。
We are not advocating its abolition but rather calling for the adaptation of its characteristics to meet the needs of today.
我们不是主张废除它，而是呼吁调整其特性，以满足现今的需要。
Clearly, however, our actions demonstrate not a bias in favor of liberal views but rather a commitment to a balanced presentation of diverse opinions.
然而，很明显，我们的行动显示的不是对自由主义观点的偏爱，而是对平衡表达不同观点的承诺。
In this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house.
在这个消费主义的时代，大多数买家并没有把大学视为一种投资，而是把它视作一种消费品——就像汽车、衣服或房子一样。
Because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such—there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development.
因为混沌理论的基本观点是这样的“模型”不存在——不存在确定的形式，只有发展变化中的模式。
These policy analysts believe that the problem is not caused primarily by wage inequity but rather by low wages coupled with single parent hood, regardless of sex.
这些政策分析人士认为，造成这一问题的主要原因并不是工资不平等，而是低工资加上单亲家庭，并且不分性别。
The paucity of known extinctions or disruptions resulting from indirect interactions may reflect not the infrequency of such mishaps but rather the failure to look for or to detect them.
间接相互作用导致的已知物种灭绝或破坏的情况的稀少，反映的或许不是这种灾难的罕见，而是没有去寻找或检测它们。
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