Kvit told VOA the recent destruction of books in Ukraine is not so much a tragedy, as it is a farce.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Well, I've given a number who have quoted him on a number of reasons but one suggestion might be that it is not so much peace alone that Hobbes cherishes as life. Peace is a means to life.

好，接下来我会讲,有些人援引他的一些原因,但有一个可能是霍布斯,除了把和平向生命一样珍视之外还有其他。

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it's not so much a choice, but it really is an aspect of who they are.

对他们而言，与其说这是一个选择，不如说这是他们本性的一个方面。

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And that's closer, but the interesting answer sociologists come to is it's not so much you develop powerful friends; rather, you develop powerful acquaintances.

这个答案更接近了，但社会学家给出的有趣答案,并不是你能结交到有权势的朋友;,而是你能结交到有权势的相识之人。

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we are the envy of the rest of the universe It's not so much that immortality, what the rest of them have, is unattractive or boring.

我们是宇宙其他生命羡慕的对象,不是说其他生命所拥有的不朽，是没有吸引力的，是让人厌烦的。

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But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.

但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。

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Finally, literary theory asks one other important question it asks many, but this is the way at least I'm organizing it for today it asks one other important question, the one with which we will actually begin: not so much "What is a reader?" but "How does reading get done?"

最后，文学理论给人们提出其它重要的问题,它提出许多问题，但我今天是这样组织的,它提出一个重要的问题，也就是我们今天开始要提出的问题：,不是“读者是谁“而是“阅读是如何开展的？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And the thing I wanted point out is, we've got this global variable number of calls. Which is there not because Fibonacci needs it but just for pedagogical reasons, so that we can keep track of how much work this thing is doing.

要指出的是我们已经,调用了几次这个全局变量,这不是因为斐波那契数列,需要调用它而只是,因为教学上的需要，以便我们可以知道,这个函数做了多少事情。

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And then you can look at food disappearance data and that's sort of a connection with the food production data: not so much how much is produced but how much of it is disappearing from the--the food supply.

然后看看食物消耗的记录,会与食物生产的数据,有某种联系,与其看在食品供应中生产了多少,倒不如关注被消费了多少

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It's not so much what's in the proposal as it is that this is the time for reconsideration.

这个计划的内容并不复杂,而如今正是一个反思的好时候。

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It's not so much a double standard is needed; it's a tie.

无关什么双重标准,双方旗鼓相当

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As I say, there's a certain instability which could never apply in the semiotics of the stoplight because there it's not so much a question of but rather the insistence that the color is just that color.

我承认，颜色的选择有时候是有规律的,但是在语义学上这解释不通,因为他们不考虑,但是语义学家认为颜色只单纯表示颜色。

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