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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但这不是本书的重点。
But economics is not its main concern.
然而现在主要关心的并不是经济。
But that is not its most serious problem.
但这并不是最严重的问题。
But repairing the line is not its only problem.
但是，修复这条铁路线不是唯一的问题。
The NBA's best players are not its highest-paid.
NBA表现最好的球员却不是收入最高的球员。
The Ukrainians consider themselves part of Europe, not its fringe.
乌克兰人已经自视欧洲的一部分，而不是其边缘。
It's made by Asus's laptop division, not its Eee PC division.
N10是由华硕的笔记本电脑部门，而不是EeePC部门制造的。
If Bild can present Germany's case, why not its academic economists?
如果《图片报》能够为德国辩护，那为何它的学术派经济学家不能？
What that effort does to the rest of the world is not its concern.
此举对世界其它地区有何影响，则不在其考虑之中。
Creating software faster is a side-effect of Scrum, not its sole goal.
快速开发软件只是Scrum的副作用，而不是它的唯一目的。
This is the heart of the use case description, but not its sum total.
这是用例描述的核心部分，但不是全部。
The killer app for any social network is its users, not its developer API.
对任何社交网络来说，最招人喜欢的网络应用是它的用户，而不是其API(开发者应用编程接口)。
The alerts, by definition, measure a new virus's spread, not its lethality.
警戒，从定义上来说，是衡量一个新的病毒的传播，而不是其致命性。
Most conservatives accept that working mothers are not its sole cause.
而大多数保守派认为，工作的母亲不是造成这个问题的惟一原因。
The answer to prayer may be approaching, though we discern not its coming.
祷告的答应或许就要来了，虽然我们看不见它的来到。
The surprising aspect of open source is not its existence, but its success.
开源令人惊奇的一点不是它的存在，而是它的成功。
The recession may have boosted this trend, he says, but it was not its primary cause.
他说，虽然经济衰退可能促进了这种替代趋势，但不是这种趋势出现的主要原因。
Like you (we hope) we want the European Union to be America's partner, not its rival.
我们也希望如阁下所言，欧盟是美国的盟友而非竞争对手。
Yet, it is the opponents of aid, not its advocates, who get the short end of the stick.
然而，正是那些援助的反对者而不是支持者，最后甩掉了拐杖。
But it is the change in a country's surplus, not its absolute size, which adds to its growth.
但这些国家的顺差在性质上有所改变，而不仅绝对规模的改变，就会促进其经济增长。
In an internationalization situation, change the label of the test object, not its accessible name.
在国际化(I11N)的情形下，改变测试对象的标签，而不是改变其访问名称。
Components that receive focus are essential to the application's function, not its design or layout.
接收焦点的组件对应用程序功能(而非其设计或布局)是不可或缺的。
That is because such trials are concerned mainly with testing a drug’s safety, not its efficacy.
这是因为这类试验主要关注测试药物的安全性而不是药效。
However, our pandemic potential scale reflects the likelihood of a pandemic and not its severity.
然而，我们的大流行潜在等级反映的是大流行的可能性，而不是其严重性。
Hardware manufacturers liberally take cues from Apple products, so why not its approach to customers?
硬件制造商总是能从苹果产品获得启发，那么他们为什么不借鉴苹果服务客户的方式呢？
Hardware manufacturers liberally take cues from Apple products, so why not its approach to customers?
硬件制造商总是能从苹果产品获得启发，那么他们为什么不借鉴苹果服务客户的方式呢？
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