琼斯负伤以来，与其说他是全队的骨干倒不如说他已成为队里的累赘。
Since his injury, Jones has become more of a liability than an asset to the team.
与其说“如果我们设定了季度末的最后限期，我们将永远无法完成”这样的话，不如说：“仅代表个人看法，但我不知道我们怎样才能在截止日期前完成。”
Instead of saying something like, "If we set an end-of-quarter deadline, we will never make it," say, "This is just my opinion, but I don't see how we will make that deadline."
他对妻子的不贞与其说感到愤怒，不如说感到惊愕。
“与其说这是一个生物学的问题，不如说这是一个行为学上的问题，”Popkin博士说：“有些人用‘非营养性’甜味剂作为“拐杖”（译者注：‘拐杖’引申为一种假性帮助，而且让人产生依赖，例如巴达维主张马来人应该要丢下‘拐杖’，继续前进），而其他人利用它们来帮助建立一个健康的饮食习惯。”
“It’s more a behavioral issue than a biological one, ” Dr. Popkin said. “Some people use non-nutritive sweeteners as a crutch; other use them to help create a healthy diet.”
因此，与其说“这就是她所说的”，还不如说，“这就是我能记得的，或者至少我只能记住这么多了。”
So instead of saying "this is what she said," it would be fairer for me to say, "this is what I got, or at least what I remember."
但很多情况下，与其说美国白人是种族主义者不如说他们自私、冷漠或者像黑人自己一样为现实状况和历史所左右。
But in many cases white Americans are not so much racist as selfish or indifferent or trapped in circumstance and history as much as the blacks themselves.
这个技能与其说关乎你所受的教育，不如说更关乎你如何思考问题、花时间思考哪些问题这一点。
This skill has far less to do with your education, than it has to do with HOW you think, and WHAT you spend your time thinking about.
反思当下多数的痛苦——从食品价格高企到西班牙年轻人失业——与其说与新兴世界的崛起有关，还不如说与国家干预有关。
Look behind much of the current misery-from high food prices to the lack of jobs for young spaniards-and it has less to do with the rise of the emerging world than with state interference.
与其说这几个重要的因素被人所忽视，倒不如说出于某些原因其价值在大部分时间里都没有明确地传达给人们。
And it's not so much that these important factors have been left out, but for some reason it seems like their value is not clearly communicated most of the time.
与其说银行是稳定的源泉，倒不如说银行强化了经济周期，银行公司在经济繁荣时毫无规矩而在经济萧条时又毫不谦虚。
Rather than being a source of stability, banks intensified the economic cycle, with firms showing little discipline during the boom and no humility afterwards.
与其说他的郊区是一个地方，不如说他一个对墨守成规的郊区规划者和建筑者们的最为实际的反抗，也可以说是对部分古老的英格兰村落的保存。
His suburbia is not so much a place as a kind of pragmatic resistance to the diktats of urban planners and architects, as well as to the stuffy preservation lobby that rules much of village England.
与其说这位小伙子撒了一个小慌，不如说他误读了调查项目的问题——他以为观看电视节目指的是单独一人收看(也就不用迁就他人)，而实际上他大部分的时间是和其他人一起看电视的。
When asked how he watched television, he gave an answer that described his behaviour when he was alone, and thus did not have to compromise. But most of the time he watched with other people.
不过，与其说这表明实施退出战略的时候到了，不如说相关数据说明，现在收回刺激措施将是狂子之举。
Far from signalling that the time has come to launch exit strategies, however, they also reveal that it would be madness to withdraw stimulus measures right now.
您是过路的人，我告诉您，与其说我是在我的家里，倒不如说您是在您的家里。
I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much more at home here than I am myself.
令员工畏惧和操纵员工的方法效果不佳：当员工出于畏惧或受到操纵而工作时，与其说他们是为了取得成绩，不如说他们是为了不丢掉工作。
Fear and manipulation don't work very well: When workers are motivated by fear and manipulation, they are not so much trying to achieve something as they are looking to avoid losing their jobs.
贝斯拉称，该发现也支持她的观点：与其说两个星系的结构受到银河系的影响，不如说受到了两者之间的相互影响。
Besla says the discovery supports her view that the two galaxies owe their structure more to each other than they do to effects from the Milky Way.
不过总体说来，与其说这是交易是伊坎的胜利，还不如说伊坎的救赎。
Overall, however, this is looking like more of a save for Icahn than a win.
与其说模仿自然有本质上的好处，还不如说大自然已经花了亿万年的时间探索问题的解决方案。
It's not so much that resembling nature is intrinsically good as that nature has had a long time to work on the problem.
他声称，这些关切与其说让他成为一位悲观主义者，倒不如说使他变成一位现实主义者，一位破除自满，戳穿虔诚，眼光犀利的局外人。
But these concerns, he argued, make him more of a realist than a pessimist and put him in the role of the cleareyed outsider — unsettling complacency and puncturing pieties.
索恩本过去常对投资者说“与其说麦当劳是家汉堡包公司，不如说是家所有权公司。”
Sonneborn used to tell investors that McDonald's was less a hamburger company than a property business.
与其说这是一个能够解决的问题，不如说这是企业和盗版者间的永无止境的博弈。
It's less a problem that can be solved than it is a never-ending arms race between company and pirate.
结论就是东亚不断扩大的未婚女性大军与其说反映了婚姻遭到解体，不如说表明了她们在逃避婚姻。
The conclusion is that East Asia's growing cohorts of unmarried women reflect less the breakdown of marriage than the fact that they are avoiding it.
因此，与其说认知过程直接产生行为(我们不知道)，还不如说我们感觉到思维的存在。
So rather than cognitive processes directly leading to behaviors (unbeknownst to us), we are aware of the thinking.
然而事实上法国的财政状况与其说像德国还不如说像希腊。
Yet in reality France's public finances are closer to Greece's than to Germany's.
然而事实上法国的财政状况与其说像德国还不如说像希腊。
Yet in reality France's public finances are closer to Greece's than to Germany's.
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