There was not so much as a trickle of water.

一点儿细流的水也没有。

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It's not so easy as you'd think.

不像你想的那么容易。

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He's not so stupid as to listen to rumours.

他还没有笨到听信谣言份儿上。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The critic Malcolm Cowley says, "Others might say that Faulkner was not so much writing stories for the public as telling them to himself.

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And so iconography began to represent this tree as an apple tree and so on, but it's not an apple tree.

因此插画中都将其描绘为一棵苹果树,但它确实不是苹果树。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But it's actually not even quite so easy or so simple as these early scenes that I've just discussed might make out.

都与之密切相关,但在之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Increasingly the threats to the eurozone are seen as not so much the bond spreads, but the combination of deepening recession and rising unemployment in parts of Europe.

BBC: The pain of southern Europe's unemployed

The law is far-reaching and will impact virtually all nonqualified deferred compensation plans as well as other not so obvious plans, such as discounted stock option plans.

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Arty situated himself next to her, not so close as to fall within the weather of her communicable diseases but not so far as to appear rude.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian