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1、not so much as 的用法not so muchas是一个常用的并列连词，其含义相当于rather than，意为与其说是倒不如说是。和其它连接词一样，它可以连接词与词，短语与短语以及句子与句子。例如： He isnt so much ill as depressed他不是生病，而是情绪低落。 Oceans dont?so much divide the world as unite it与其说海洋分隔了世界，倒不如说海洋联结了世界各国。 当连接句子时，not so muchas连接的往往是because或that引起的从句，意思是倒不是因为而是因为。as后的that有时可省去。例如

2、： You feel lost，sick at heart before such unmasked hatred，not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light面对这毫不掩饰的仇恨，你感到不知所措，惶恐不安，这倒不是因为它威胁了你，而是因为它显示了人类居然如此没有人性。 Its not so much that the machine is out of order asI have not learned to operate it倒不是机器出了故障，而是我还没有学会操作。 该并列连词中的as可用but替换，即出现该连词的一种变体：not somuchbut。例如： It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important重要的与其说是实际的世界人口总数，倒不如说是世界人口增长率。 so much so that 到这样的程度以致. 是有的！ so much as that？ so much as 甚至于，连.都不 He wouldnt so much as look at me. 他甚至连看都不看我一眼