His grades were not so good as before.
他的成绩不如以前好了。
Of course, the colored world was not so much a neighborhood as a condition of existence.
当然，有色人种的世界与其说是一个社区，不如说是一种生存所需条件。
The importance of Johnson's letter is not so much historical as emotional; it would become a touchstone for all who repudiated patrons and for all who embraced the laws of the marketplace.
约翰逊这封信的重要性与其说是历史上的，不如说是情感上的；它将成为所有否定资助者和所有拥护市场法则的人的试金石。
Their problems, he argues, are caused not so much by nature as by people, and they can be solved by people as well.
他认为，他们的问题与其说是自然因素不如说是人为因素，所以当然可以由人类来解决。
But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.
但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.
与其说是海洋分割这个世界，不如说是统一这个世界。
Spanish may not be as prestigious as Mandarin, but it’s an everyday presence in the United States — and will become even more so.
西班牙语也许不如普通话那么出名，但是却融入了美国人的日常生活当中——并且还将越来越普遍。
Beyond this, pure advertisement tend to work not so well as a more interactive way - set up a blog or forum, let them talk and spread.
除此之外，单纯的广告效果不如互动营销模式来的有效——例如，搭建一个博客平台或者论坛，供消费者讨论和传播信息。
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.
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。
The culprit was not so much the rise in average temperatures but an increased frequency of extremely hot days, defined as above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).
其罪魁祸首与其说是平均气温的上升，不如说是出现极热天的频率增加(极热天的定义为超过35摄氏度(95华氏度))。
Experts say the coming crime wave is not so much due to poverty as to a poverty of values.
专家们表示，即将到来的犯罪潮，与其说是归因于贫困，不如说是由于价值的缺失。
Some of the comments, compared with the actual facts, were found not to be so sagacious as they were supposed to be.
有人发现，一些评论与实际情况相比，并不如原本设想的那般富有洞察力。
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。
But Mr Gilmer argues that the cities are not so much rivals as partners.
但是基尔默先生认为这些城市与其说是对手，不如说是伙伴。
Indeed, the real problem with both Mr Obama's budget and the Republicans' proposals is not so much the half-truths and fibs within them, as all the things they both left out.
实际上，奥巴马先生的预算以及共和党人的提议的真正问题与其说是半真半假以及其中参杂着谎言，还不如说是他们双方都遗漏了一些东西。
It will probably be uncontroversial because the few remaining climate-change skeptics prepared to speak out against the consensus argue not so much about the climate science as about its consequences.
报告也可能是没有争议的，原因是仅存的准备出声反驳针对共达成共识的观点的气候变化怀疑论者与其说是在争论气候科学不如说是在争论它的结果。
The cause of the decline in handwriting may lie not so much in computers as in standardized testing.
与其说是电脑造成了手写的衰落，还不如说是标准化的测试是始作俑者。
It was not so much Mr Chavez who was defeated in the referendum, as his bankrupt philosophy.
与其说查维斯先生是在公投中失败，不如说是因为他的已经破产的思想。
Some of these figures are not so much changes as corrections.
与其说一些固有观念在改变，不如说是被纠正过来。
Not so much the art nouveau exterior as the gold-accented interior with its red carpets, stained glass, wood paneling and flowing central stair case.
与其说它新艺术外墙，倒不如说它金碧辉煌、铺有红地毯、彩色玻璃、木质镶板和平滑中央楼梯间的内堂。
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.
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。
The most excitable bears are not so much polar as bipolar.
而最易激动的熊与其说是北极熊还不如说是双极熊。
She had put on weight, and in spite of the makeup her face looked worn, not so much by time as by frustration, which surprised me, since I’d never really thought that Clara aspired to anything.
她身体发福了，尽管化了装，她的脸看上去憔悴不堪，与其说是因为时光的流逝到不如说是因为生活的挫折感使然，她的外表令我不胜惊讶，因为我从来没想象过克拉拉会变成今天这个模样。
It's not so much that resembling nature is intrinsically good as that nature has had a long time to work on the problem.
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。
One of palaeontology's dirty little secrets is that fossils are not so much a record of past life, as a record of hard-bodied past life—the things that have bones and shells.
而古生物学界里一个不可告人的秘密是，与其说化石是古生物的记录，不如说它更利于记录动物的硬体结构，如骨骼、壳体。
One of palaeontology's dirty little secrets is that fossils are not so much a record of past life, as a record of hard-bodied past life-the things that have bones and shells.
而古生物学界里一个不可告人的秘密是，与其说化石是古生物的记录，不如说它更利于记录动物的硬体结构，如骨骼、壳体。
One of palaeontology's dirty little secrets is that fossils are not so much a record of past life, as a record of hard-bodied past life-the things that have bones and shells.
而古生物学界里一个不可告人的秘密是，与其说化石是古生物的记录，不如说它更利于记录动物的硬体结构，如骨骼、壳体。
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