not so much as的意思是"與其說A,不如說B,那麼A和B分別放在這個詞組前後的什麼位置?

題目：

not so much as的意思是"與其說A,不如說B,那麼A和B分別放在這個詞組前後的什麼位置?

解答：

not so much．．．as．．．是一個常用的並列連詞,其含義相當於rather than,意爲"與其說是……倒不如說是……".和其它連接詞一樣,它可以連接詞與詞,短語與短語以及句子與句子.例如：
He isn't so much ill as depressed．（＝He's depressed rather than ill．）他不是生病,而是情緒低落.
Oceans don't?so much divide the world as unite it．（＝Oceans unite the world rather than divide it．）與其說海洋分隔了世界,倒不如說海洋聯結了世界各國.
當連接句子時,not so much．．．as．．．連接的往往是because或that引起的從句,意思是"倒不是因爲……而是因爲……".as後的that有時可省去.例如：
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．面對這毫不掩飾的仇恨,你感到不知所措,惶恐不安,這倒不是因爲它威脅了你,而是因爲它顯示了人類居然如此沒有人性.
It's not so much that the machine is out of order as（that）I have not learned to operate it．倒不是機器出了故障,而是我還沒有學會操作.
該並列連詞中的as可用but（rather）替換,即出現該連詞的一種變體：not somuch．．．but（rather）．．．.例如：
It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important．重要的與其說是實際的世界人口總數,倒不如說是世界人口增長率.