The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.
墙面不是白的，而是灰不溜秋的。
It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
从传统意义上来说，这并不是一个旅馆，而是变成了旅馆的整个村庄。
There are no hard and fast rules, but rather traditional guidelines as to who pays for what.
关于谁来支付什么费用并没有一定要遵守的规定，只有传统的准则。
When it comes to heart health, there is speculation that it's not the style of music, but rather the tempo that makes it so good for your heart health.
说到心脏健康，有人推测不是音乐的风格，而是节奏对心脏健康有好处。
Instead, I agree with Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom, who believes that the heaviest risks from AGI do not come from a decision to turn against mankind but rather from a dogged pursuit of set objectives at the expense of everything else.
相反，我同意牛津大学哲学家尼克·博斯特罗姆的观点。他认为，AGI 最大的风险并非源自它违反人类的决定，而是源自其不惜一切代价对既定目标的执着追求。
"Well, perhaps you have chosen the better way," said the Water Rat, but rather doubtfully.
“嗯，也许你选择了更好的方式。”水鼠说，但他心里有点怀疑。
We all know that it's easy to follow fashion but rather difficult to establish our own style.
我们都知道很容易追随潮流，但很难建立自己的风格。
The issue is not development time, but rather the full time between project inception and delivery.
这个问题不是开发时间，而是从项目开始到交付的全部时间。
Post wants to make clear that she's not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences.
波斯特想要表明，她谈论的不是法律权利，而是个人偏好。
The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry in Crane.
在克莱恩看来，基督教信仰和践行的衰败，并不是损失，反而是诗歌新生的机会。
Don't push for an interview on the spot, but rather explain that you want to let them know of your interest.
这个时候不要急着想去面试，要解释你想让他们知道你的兴趣所在。
We are not advocating its abolition but rather calling for the adaptation of its characteristics to meet the needs of today.
我们不是主张废除它，而是呼吁调整其特性，以满足现今的需要。
So then the problem is not really about technology, but rather, "how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?"
因此，问题不在于技术，而在于“我们如何创新我们的制度和工作实践？”
Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.
想象这样的一个世界：建造最高的摩天大厦不再是一场高度竞赛，而是一个关于能储存太阳能更多的竞赛。
What is so impressive about it, however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse — the thrifty compactness of its construction.
然而，令人印象深刻的不是它的冗长，恰恰相反——是它简洁紧凑的结构。
Voting of this kind does not depend on the strong points of the competitors, but rather on how many social-networking resources they have.
这类投票依靠的不是竞争者的强项，而是他们拥有多少社交网络资源。
My favorite type of snow is not the type you make snowmen out of or have snowball fights with but rather the big, slow-moving, fluffy kind.
我最喜欢的雪并不是你用来堆雪人或打雪仗的雪，而是那些大大的、慢慢飘落的蓬松雪花。
Also, skilled artisans did not work by the clock, at a steady pace, but rather in bursts of intense labor alternating with more leisurely time.
同时，技艺纯熟的工匠师傅们并不会按照时间来稳步地安排工作，他们更喜欢享受更多闲暇时间与集中赶工相交替的生产方式。
What highly creative artistic activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular.
具有高度创造性的艺术活动所产生的并不是一种超越既定界限的新的概括，而是一种美学上的特殊。
In this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house.
在这个消费主义的时代，大多数买家并没有把大学视为一种投资，而是把它视作一种消费品——就像汽车、衣服或房子一样。
Clearly, however, our actions demonstrate not a bias in favor of liberal views but rather a commitment to a balanced presentation of diverse opinions.
然而，很明显，我们的行动显示的不是对自由主义观点的偏爱，而是对平衡表达不同观点的承诺。
Because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such—there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development.
因为混沌理论的基本观点是这样的“模型”不存在——不存在确定的形式，只有发展变化中的模式。
These policy analysts believe that the problem is not caused primarily by wage inequity but rather by low wages coupled with single parent hood, regardless of sex.
这些政策分析人士认为，造成这一问题的主要原因并不是工资不平等，而是低工资加上单亲家庭，并且不分性别。
However, their focus was not on aerobics, but rather on weight-training programs designed to develop muscular mass, strength, and endurance in their primarily male enthusiasts.
然而，他们的重点并不是有氧运动，而是负重训练项目，旨在培养主要客户男性健身爱好者的培养肌肉质量、力量和耐力等。
Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。
The paucity of known extinctions or disruptions resulting from indirect interactions may reflect not the infrequency of such mishaps but rather the failure to look for or to detect them.
间接相互作用导致的已知物种灭绝或破坏的情况的稀少，反映的或许不是这种灾难的罕见，而是没有去寻找或检测它们。
Gazda hypothesizes that copying didn't indicate a lack of artistic imagination or skill on the part of Roman artists, but rather the Romans made copies because they admired Greek sculpture.
加兹达假设，复制并不意味着罗马艺术家缺乏艺术想象力或技能，而是因为他们欣赏希腊雕塑。
The study's finding strongly suggests that the real reason why scientists over forty rarely produce highly creative work is not due to age but rather because most have spent too long in their fields.
这项研究的发现有力地表明，40岁以上的科学家很少能做出高度创造性的工作的真正原因不是年龄，而是因为大多数人在他们的领域花了太长时间。
Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them—in other words, how much they remembered eating.
餐后几小时，人们的饥饿程度不是由他们吃了多少来预测的，而是由他们在面前看到了多少食物来预测的——换句话说，就是通过他们记得自己吃了多少来预测。
Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them—in other words, how much they remembered eating.
餐后几小时，人们的饥饿程度不是由他们吃了多少来预测的，而是由他们在面前看到了多少食物来预测的——换句话说，就是通过他们记得自己吃了多少来预测。
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