His manner is not so much regal as professorial.

他的言行举止不太像帝王，倒更像学者一些。

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He is not so much a journalist as a writer.

与其说他是个新闻工作者,不如说他是个作家.

《简明英汉词典》

He is not so much a writer as a reporter.

他与其说是个作家,毋宁说是个记者.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The civil servant's expression, however, did not change, not so much as by a flicker.

然而，那位公务员的表情还是那样，丝毫没变。

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She told me she was not so much leaving her job as it was leaving her.

她告诉我，与其说是她辞了工作，不如说是工作辞了她。

柯林斯例句

A good birth depends not so much on who you are but where you are and how much you know.

好的出身与其说是取决于你的身份，还不如说是取决于你的生活环境和知识水平。

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Jack was not so much interested in making money, so long as he could manage to rub along.

只要日子能过得去,杰克对挣钱并不那么感兴趣.

《简明英汉词典》

It needs not so much foresight now as direction.

它这时就不需要远见而只需要指导了.

英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

He did not so much as stir a finger.

他一点力都不肯出.

辞典例句

She was sexually not so much chaste as prudish.

她对男女关系与其说是注重贞节,毋宁说是持身谨慎.

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I lay down not so much to sleep as to think.

我躺下来与其说是要睡觉,倒不如说是要思考.

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She did not so much as raise an eyebrow.

她甚至连眉毛也不抖动一下.

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Happiness hinges not so much on wealth as on health.

快乐与其说在于财富倒不如说在于健康.

辞典例句

Their real job is not so much to repair damage as to prevent it.

他们的实际工作与其说是排除故障,不如说是预防故障.

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Our success was attributed not so much to your help as to our cooperation.

我们的成功与其归功于您的帮忙,不如归功于我们的合作.

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