如果我要表达：与其说XX是A，不如说XX是B。应该怎么用英语说呢？我记得以前大学英语里面有一个说法，貌似是：not much A, but B......不知道还有人记得不？

用rather than 吧

lz记错了，是not so much as

以前学过,但是忘了

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引用第1楼百年孤独于2006-11-06 00:15发表的:
用rather than 吧

lz记错了，是not so much as

我就是想避免用rather than这个句式。你一说我就有点印象了，貌似是not so much A as B......


能说一下是出现在college english的哪一册吗？我想翻书确认一下。

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引用第3楼FFLiu于2006-11-06 08:56发表的:


我就是想避免用rather than这个句式。你一说我就有点印象了，貌似是not so much A as B......


.......

就是not so much A as B......

我们课文上一句:
Each picture therefore seemed not so much an image of somethings that happened a half-century ago as a window cut into the wall of the photography center showing that what soon could easily happen to New York...

Science moves forward,they say,not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tolls.

谢谢了！

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引用第4楼channing于2006-11-06 18:28发表的:

就是not so much A as B......

我们课文上一句:
Each picture therefore seemed not so much an image of somethings that happened a half-century ago as a window cut into the wall of the photography center showing that what soon could easily happen to New York...

原来我以前学过的英语课本里面还有这么绕口的句子啊^^

可以说：It wound be better to say B than A .