现在社会的情形不是看你知道什么，而是看你认识谁，学位也基本被忽略了。
It's a case of not what you know but who you know in this world today and qualifications quite go by the board.
他放弃体育运动了，不是因为他非放弃不可，而是因为他想要那样。
He was through with sports, not because he had to be but because he wanted it that way.
他在亚洲队有一席之地，不是因为他是白人而是因为他很出色。
He has his place in the Asian team not because he is white but because he is good.
幸运的是，志愿者们不是被自身利益而是被利他主义推动。
Fortunately, volunteers are not motivated by self-interest, but by altruism.
“香薰精油”不是纯精油，而是稀释油。
"Aromatherapy oils" are not pure essential oils but dilutions.
他坚持认为这些照片不是艺术而是淫秽品。
阿代尔长篇小说的样板不是别人的虚构故事，而是事实。
The template for Adair's novel is not somebody else's fiction, but fact.
致命的并不是原发肿瘤，而是在身体其他部位的继发。
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body.
他承认自己反复推究不是因为他确定找到了真理，而是因为那给了他很多乐趣。
He philosophized, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure.
阿布不是他的真名，而是一个他用来掩盖自己身份的假名。
Abu is not his real name, but it's one he uses to disguise his identity.
并不是她听不到我说话，而是我的话有时候没有在她脑子里留下印象。
It wasn't that she couldn't hear me, it was just that what I said sometimes didn't register in her brain.
这不是为艺术而艺术的华而不实的东西，而是有所大胆创新的非凡作品。
This isn't highfalutin art-about-art. It's marvellous and adventurous stuff.
这些既不是次品也不是无牌货，而是质量一流的产品。
These are not seconds, or unbranded goods, but first-quality products.
不像其他树，它不是越往上越细，而是自下往上一样粗。
Unlike other trees, it doesn't taper very much. It stays fat all the way up.
使彼得晕头转向的不是痛苦，而是不公平。
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter.
鲸鱼不是河马的后代，而是来自古老的类似狼的生物。
Whales are descended not from hippos but from that distant wolf-like creatures.
生活不是如何度过暴风雨，而是如何在雨中起舞。
Life isn't about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
他们不是在讲英语，而是在写信。
它不是去木星，而是去其他的星系。
It's not going to Jupiter. It's going to some other planetary system.
吸收专家智慧的不是技巧，而是戏剧本身。
It's not mechanics, but the play itself, that absorbs the experts' intelligence.
不是更努力地工作，而是更聪明地工作。
他的工作地点不是美国，而是澳大利亚和新西兰。
His workplace is not in the United States but in Australia and New Zealand.
电灯里面的电线不是铜丝而是钨丝。
This wire inside an electric lamp is not made of copper but it is made of tungsten.
不是因为她变了，而是因为我变了。
波斯特想要表明，她谈论的不是法律权利，而是个人偏好。
Post wants to make clear that she's not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences.
父亲解释说：“线不是阻止风筝飞得更高，而是帮助它在空中停留。”
The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky."
但你不是在中国，而是在英国的曼彻斯特。
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。
It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
警方对付犯罪的办法，不是事先加以防范，而是事后作出反应。
The police presented a reactive rather than preventive strategy against crime.
用这种语言的意图不是公开而是隐瞒，不是解释而是混淆。
It is language intended not to reveal but to conceal, not to communicate but to obfuscate.
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