What is called “modern civilization” is not the result of a balanced development of all man's nature, but accumulated knowledge applied to practical life. (研考英语试题) [原译]所谓“现代文明”不仅是整个人类本性得到平衡发展的结果,而且是把所积累的知识运用到实际生活中的结果。(研考答案) not . . . but 具有“不仅……而且”的含义吗?
并列连词 but 单独使用时作“但是”“然而”解,但是跟 not 连用时,则作“而是”解。“not...but”一般可以译为“不是……而是”,即否定前者,肯定后者。例如:
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It is not water, but alcohol. 这不是水,而是酒精。
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He refuses to consider sufficiently the wants of the customer, who must buy, not the thing he desires but the thing the English gentleman wants to sell. 他们不充分考虑顾客的需要,顾客必须买的并不是他们所希望买的东西,而是英国绅士想要卖的东西。
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Some satellite relay stations relay radio waves to the earth but they receive the waves not from the earth, but from other space. 某些卫星中继站向地球转播无线电波,但它们不是从地球而是从外层太空接收无线电波。
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Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. (J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) 哈利盯着这个生灵,心中充满了好奇,倒不是因为她陌生,而是莫名地觉得她很熟悉。(《哈利·波特与死亡圣徒》)
[试译]所谓“现代文明”并非人的全部天性均衡发展的产物,而是所积累的知识应用于实际生活的结果。
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请做下面的英语试题:
It is often said that the joy of travelling is ____ in arriving at your destination ____ in the journey itself.
A. 不填;but B. 不填;or C. not;or D. not;but(全国高考江苏卷,08-27)