In the South, at least initially, they didn't build towns so much as they built trading posts.
在南方，至少在起初，他们建城镇没有建贸易站那么多。
I don't really think of her as a daughter so much as a very good friend.
我其实更多地把她当做好朋友，而不是女儿。
I respect my mother so much as she never treats me as a child, but as an equal.
我很尊敬我的母亲，因为她从来不把我当孩子看，而是把我当作与她平等的人。
Don't you chatter so much as usual, or you'll be sent back, as sure as fate!
你不要像往常那样喋喋不休，否则你会被送回来的，这是千真万确的！
We've got your house back for you, and you don't offer us so much as a sandwich.
我们已经把你的房子还给你了，你连一个三明治都不肯给我们。
Galileo is the only contemporary personage, the only seventeenth-century figure, even so much as mentioned in Paradise Lost.
伽利略是唯一的当代人物，唯一的17世纪人物，甚至在《失乐园》里也有提及。
Nothing defines humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract thoughts, whether about the universe, the mind, love, dreams, or ordering a drink.
没有什么比传达抽象想法的能力更能定义人类，无论这些想法是有关宇宙、心灵、爱情、梦想，还是点一杯饮料。
It's not cash that's needed, so much as ingenuity and willingness.
因为与钱相比，我们更需要的，是人们的巧思和意愿。
So the words don’t stand for numbers, so much as relative amounts.
因此科学家推断，这些单词并不代表确切的数，而只具有相对量的意思。
Really, she wasn't demeaned in Hollywood so much as she was ignored.
事实上，与其说霍恩在好莱坞被贬低还不如说是被漠视。
For years Microsoft took it, he said, without so much as counterpunch.
然而多年来，微软默默地忍受这些，几乎从不予以还击。
I just wish you would not interfere with me so much as you have been doing.
我只是希望你不要像以前那样妨碍我。
It was, first, set way too high: it didn't protect industry so much as kill it.
首先它目标太高了，它对产业的保护力度还比不上对产业的扼杀。
When Mary walked in, she didn’t so much as take a glance at me, which angered me.
玛丽进门时，连看我一眼都没有，真令人生气。
The cracked bed of Lake Eyre, meantime, resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape.
艾尔湖破裂的河床，恰似月球表面的景象。
One can get it from so much as touching them or sharing their towels and spoons and forks.
就算碰一碰他们都会被传染上，更不用说，与他们共用毛巾，汤匙和刀叉。
Moderation - Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
适度——不走极端；避免因怨恨而对别人进行你认为他们应得的伤害。
I couldn't bear the fact that, when they were together, he wouldn't so much as look at me.
当我们在一起时，他几乎不怎么看我，我不能接受这个事实。
But Charlotte's purpose wasn't to attack Austen so much as draw attention to their differences.
但是夏洛蒂这样比较并不是要攻击奥斯丁来表现自已的与众不同。
Many relationship experts say it's not the fights that matter so much as the making up post-fight.
很多关系专家认为影响伴侣关系的最主要因素不是争吵而是那些引起争吵的因素。
Hard questions to answer, since a critic's job is not prophecy so much as the anticipation of surprise.
这些问题很难回答，因为影评人并非先知，却又总是会遇上各种出其不意的问题。
It's not a song, so much as a list poem read through a computer programme to remove all emotion from it.
这并不是一首歌曲，而更像是一首由一项项条目组成的，为了去除一切情感而由电脑程序朗读出来的诗。
Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.
费格斯先生提出了一种观点，认为西方社会面临的风险像旧时期上流社会的衰败一样，最后会彻底崩溃。
From Paul's Hobbesian perspective, the pirates weren't morally flawed so much as financially misinformed.
从保罗的霍布斯主义观点来看，海盗们的道德缺陷还比不上他们财政观念上的误解。
Another point of view is that higher commodity prices may not signal recovery so much as strangle it at birth.
另一观点是升高的大宗商品价格可能并非表明经济复苏，而更多是将复苏扼杀在摇篮里。
It still requires a bit of discipline and commitment, but not nearly so much as making a permanent change.
这还是需要一点自律和承诺的，但比起做长期的改变要少得多了。
There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg.
这里还有沙漠玫瑰（夹竹桃科），把它比作粗壮的大象腿再也合适不过了。
There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg.
这里还有沙漠玫瑰（夹竹桃科），把它比作粗壮的大象腿再也合适不过了。
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