There was not so much as a trickle of water.
一点儿细流的水也没有。
It doesn't matter, so long as they're enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you're on a tight budget.
这没关系，只要它们是令人愉快的，而且不太可能有负面影响，比如喝酒过量或者在预算紧张的情况下疯狂消费。
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。
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。
Buyer is addlepated so much as who he can not buy a right ticket!
买家往往是那些头脑糊涂无法买到正确火车票的人！
In this way, this pattern represents not so much a deployment of new technology as the exploitation of technology and applications that already exist.
通过这样，此模式并不会要求部署太多的新技术，而是要对已经存在的技术和应用程序加以充分利用。
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。
Iran, which once held so much sway, is not talked of as a model: theocracy does not appeal to the youngsters on the Arab street.
伊朗，曾经像个墙头草一样，摇摆不定，不能称之为典范。神权对阿拉伯街头的年轻人来说，没有什么吸引力。
His aim is to make the German station a yardstick against which other news reports can be checked: not so much a loud voice as a dependable one.
他的目标是使这家德国电台成为一个针对其他可被检视的新闻报道的标尺：影响不是最大但却是可信赖的一家电台。
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。
Since Lewis died in 1963, the definition of old age has changed - indeed, most of us today are not so much hoping for a long life, as expecting it.
自从刘易斯在1963年逝世以来，人们对老年的定义已经发生了变化——的确，我们中的多数人如今并不希望长寿，而是预料长寿。
Therefore XMI is not so much a vocabulary as a framework.
因此，与其说是词汇表，XMI 更像是一个框架。
In this world not worth so much as a breath, the only valid relation is that between man and eternity, not between man and history.
在这世上没有什么比呼气更有价值，唯一有用的关系是人与永恒的，而不是人与历史的。
The short answer in the case of Libya is that Barack Obama has not invented a new doctrine so much as repudiated an old one.
关于利比亚局势的简短回答是，奥巴马没有发明一个新的主义，甚至都没有否定旧的主义。
These novels’ view of America, and Americans, is deeply conflicted; often the United States is portrayed as a blundering monster — not evil so much as dangerously ignorant.
这些小说对于美国和美国人的观点是极其矛盾的，美国通常被描写成一个粗笨的怪物——并不十分邪恶，却带有一种愚昧的危险性。
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 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。
The evil of poverty, wrote Orwell, is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually.
贫穷的恶魔，奥威尔写道，在它从身体上和精神上腐蚀人时，并不会带给人它造成的全部痛苦。
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。
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。
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。
In a sense, the recorded-music market is not so much dying as greying.
从某种意义上讲，录制音乐的市场并没有消亡，只是在逐渐老化。
And yet financial services were not so much a victim of the inflows of foreign capital as an eager accomplice.
而且作为一个热心的同谋者金融行业并非外国资本流入的受害者。
Not so much hilarious as just funny to think of a guy running through a city doing these things.
城市的忍者。与其说很滑稽的家伙跑到一个城市做的这些事。
It is not so much a country as a force that pushed Russia to its knees in the 1990s and has since done all it can to stop it getting up again.
它并不像一个国家，而更像是1990年代便将俄罗斯推跪在地，并从此使尽浑身解数不让它重新站起来的一种势力。
It is not so much a country as a force that pushed Russia to its knees in the 1990s and has since done all it can to stop it getting up again.
它并不像一个国家，而更像是1990年代便将俄罗斯推跪在地，并从此使尽浑身解数不让它重新站起来的一种势力。
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