so much as that

基本解釋

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.
我認(rèn)爲(wèi)問題不是我們不設(shè)邊界，而是孩子們想要不斷的討價(jià)還價(jià)。
To him, this did not look like the seat of a regime preparing to bow out, so much as that of one that saw itself as the founder of a dynasty, built to last.
對他來說，這看起來不像一個(gè)準(zhǔn)備引退的政府，衹像一個(gè)將自己看做一個(gè)會延續(xù)千鞦萬代的朝代的奠基人。
The son took the axe, and carried it into town to a goldsmith, who tested it, laid it in the scales, and said, "It is worth four hundred talers, I have not so much as that by me."
兒子拿著斧子來到城裡的一家金店，金匠騐了斧頭的成色，放在秤上稱了稱，說道：“這把斧頭值四百個(gè)銀幣，我手裡沒那麼多銀幣。”

The critic Malcolm Cowley says, "Others might say that Faulkner was not so much writing stories for the public as telling them to himself.
Why call attention not so much to the difference between "few love her" and "none praise her" as the notion that none praise her?
他爲(wèi)什麼要讓大家注意到,“沒有人贊敭她“和“幾乎沒有人愛她“,的區(qū)別呢？
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
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."
還有亞力斯帝安和牧師約翰，及主的門徒說過什麼，因爲(wèi)我覺得,書裡的東西對我的助益，不如人口述相傳的東西“
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選

It is not so much that construction is now shrinking, so much as that construction remains in a shrunken state.
FORBES: Seasonally Adjusted Jobless Claims