but rather

The pieces on view are not grouped around any one theme, but rather represent superb examples from various periods

展出的作品并非围绕着一个主题，而是不同时期的经典之作。

He's very learned but rather absent minded.

他很有学问,可是好忘事.

I don't envisage I will take an executive role, but rather become a consultant on merchandise and marketing.

我不设想自己将成为管理人员，但很希望成为商品营销顾问。

She had married a charming but rather vague Englishman

她嫁给了一个外表迷人实际却很迷糊的英国人。

The process is not a circle but rather a spiral

这个过程不是一个圆周运动而是螺旋上升型的。

Their home is no mansion, but rather a small apartment, just big enough for the three of them.

他们家并非豪宅，只是个小公寓，对一家三口来说仅仅是刚好够住而已。

There are no hard and fast rules, but rather traditional guidelines as to who pays for what

关于谁来支付什么费用并没有明确的规定，只是遵循传统的准则罢了。

He had a slouch, his face was red , his nose long but rather pleasing.

他戴着一顶阔软边呢帽, 红红的脸, 长长的鼻子长得很可爱.

He has a strong body, but rather thin legs.

他躯干粗壮, 但腿却很瘦.

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather, learning to start over.--Nicole Sobon

有时最难的并非放下过去，而是学会重新开始。

The moon doesn't describe a circle round the earth, but rather an ellipse.

月球绕地球运行的轨道不是浑圆的, 而是椭圆的.

The patient was no better but rather grew worse.

病人情况不但没有好转，倒恶化了。

It's not just that existing shrubs3 and grasses have increased their stature4, although that is the case, but rather that taller species are now moving into areas they never used to grow in large numbers.

问题不仅仅在于现有灌木和草地的高度有所增长，虽然确实如此，而更在于原本就较高的植物种类正大规模地向其从未生长过的地域移动。

He was not one to retreat but rather one who would take up the gauntlet.

他不是一个想退却的人,倒是一个宁愿应战的人.

He was no better, but rather grew worse.

他的病情未见好转, 反而更恶化了.

They held themselves aloof, not in a sky, but rather in an independent way.

她们偏偏不理不睬, 并非怕羞, 却是自己很有主意的样子.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

教育不应要求孩子放弃快乐,而应引导他们从新事物中寻找快乐，比如用阅读小说代替玩小人玩具,用做实验代替把杯子沉到浴缸里,用严肃的辩论代替无稽之谈。

It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.

从传统意义上来说，这并不是一个旅馆，而是变成了旅馆的整个村庄。

In reality the earth is not exactly spherical but rather shaped somewhat like a flattened ellipsoid.

实际上地球不是精确的球形,而有点象一扁椭球.

Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

想象这样一个世界:建造最高的摩天大楼不再是一个关于高度的竞赛，而是一个关于收集最多太阳能的竞赛。

The ubiquitous mouse input device is not metaphoric of anything, but rather is learned idiomatically.

无所不在的鼠标输入设备没有任何隐喻；相反，是习惯用法的学习

She was no better, but rather grew worse.

她的病情不但没好转, 反而恶化了.

It's an interesting book but rather far-fetched.

这本书很有趣,只是太离奇了点.

Strictly speaking, they shouldn't be called philosophers, but rather'philophilosophers.'

严格讲起来, 他们不该叫哲学家Philophilosophers, 该叫‘哲学家学家’philophilosophers. ”

He was no mere creature of circumstance, but rather a prime moving force in history.

他不仅是一位时势造成的英雄, 更是一种主要的历史动力.

Sheila is very clever but rather backward in expressing her ideas.

希拉很聪明,然而在表达思想时却有些腆.

The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.

墙面不是白的，而是灰不溜秋的。

Creative advertising need not be bad or destructive , but rather it can be contemporary.

创造性的广告并非定是不好或具有破坏性的,相反, 它符合时代进步的要求.

It wasn't that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront it.

哈佛商学院的教授丽贝卡·亨德森说，柯达公司并非无视未来，而是它没有实施策略来应对未来。

Her advice includes perfectly true but rather fulsome pearls of wisdom.

她的建议中有完全正确的金玉良言，但有过于恭维之嫌。