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。
"Well, perhaps you have chosen the better way," said the Water Rat, but rather doubtfully.
“嗯，也许你选择了更好的方式。”水鼠说，但他心里有点怀疑。
We all know that it's easy to follow fashion but rather difficult to establish our own style.
我们都知道很容易追随潮流，但很难建立自己的风格。
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。
Don't push for an interview on the spot, but rather explain that you want to let them know of your interest.
这个时候不要急着想去面试，要解释你想让他们知道你的兴趣所在。
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。
So then the problem is not really about technology, but rather, "how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?"
因此，问题不在于技术，而在于“我们如何创新我们的制度和工作实践？”
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。
Voting of this kind does not depend on the strong points of the competitors, but rather on how many social-networking resources they have.
这类投票依靠的不是竞争者的强项，而是他们拥有多少社交网络资源。
My favorite type of snow is not the type you make snowmen out of or have snowball fights with but rather the big, slow-moving, fluffy kind.
我最喜欢的雪并不是你用来堆雪人或打雪仗的雪，而是那些大大的、慢慢飘落的蓬松雪花。
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