so much as that

基本解释

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。
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.
对他来说，这看起来不像一个准备引退的政府，只像一个将自己看做一个会延续千秋万代的朝代的奠基人。
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."
儿子拿着斧子来到城里的一家金店，金匠验了斧头的成色，放在秤上称了称，说道：“这把斧头值四百个银币，我手里没那么多银币。”

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.
FORBES: Seasonally Adjusted Jobless Claims