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单词 not so much
释义

not so much

phrase
If you say that something is not so much one thing as another, you mean that it is more like the second thing than the first.
I don't really think of her as a daughter so much as a very good friend.
She told me she was not so much leaving her job as it was leaving her.
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not so much

phrase
You use the structures not...so much and not so much...as to say that something is one kind of thing rather than another kind.
I did not really object to Will's behaviour so much as his personality.
A good birth depends not so much on who you are but where you are and how much youknow.
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Examples of 'not so much' in a sentence
not so much

His two goals will have done him the world of good, not so much the one from the penalty spot but certainly the screamer from 23 yards.
The Sun (2016)
The key is not so much how things looked.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The hard bit is not so much having the good idea but doing something with it.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
 Another possibility is not so much the loss of habitat as habitat fragmentation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The problem for creativity in the business setting is not so much having good ideas but implementing them.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is not so much that the good men do often dies with them while the evil survives.
Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987)
Some people love that kind of thing, others not so much.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So it's not so much goodbye and good riddance.
The Sun (2010)
I found that the best thing was not so much a moisturiser but a barrier cream.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Parents' fears were not so much choosing a good school but choosing one that would not soon close.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This is expensively neutral, not so much good taste as the polite offer of no sort of taste at all.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It's not so much a fame thing, but financial success.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's famous not so much for the things that happened here, but the people who visited.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Giving good carpet is not so much a Cinderella moment for today's film icons as a crucial business opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A footballer is as good, not so much as his last success or failure, as the hopes for his next one.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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