I don't think the problem is that we don't set boundaries so much as that our kids are constantly wanting to renegotiate them.

我认为问题不是我们不设边界，而是孩子们想要不断的讨价还价。

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How strange that something so simple as a walk on the beach could suddenly mean so much.

在海滩上散步这么简单的事突然间变得意义如此重大，真是奇怪。

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There must be few questions on which responsible opinion is so utterly divided as on that of how much sleep we ought to have.

像我们应该睡多久这样的问题，几乎没有更多问题的可信赖意见的分歧如此之大。

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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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Why call attention not so much to the difference between "few love her" and "none praise her" as the notion that none praise her?

他为什么要让大家注意到,“没有人赞扬她“和“几乎没有人爱她“,的区别呢？

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And what things Aristeon and the Presbyter John, disciples of the Lord used to say. For I did not suppose that the things from the books would aid me, so much as things from the living and continuing voice."

还有亚力斯帝安和牧师约翰，及主的门徒说过什么，因为我觉得,书里的东西对我的助益，不如人口述相传的东西“

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It is not so much that construction is now shrinking, so much as that construction remains in a shrunken state.

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For all her professed patriotism, however, the issue isn't that New York is so much flyer than London, so much as that Winehouse's trainwreckery has squandered whatever goodwill she once claimed in the colonies.

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If Vertex wins, it may not be because it had a better drug so much as that it found a smarter way to study it, in a way that will make it easier for patients to take.

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