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常见英语特殊结构 not so much … as … The funding you have provided is not so much a material incentive as a moral support. 你提供的资金与其说是一种物质刺激，倒不如说是一种道义上的支持。 The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it. 海洋与其说分割，不如说连接了整个世界。 The power of knowledge consists not so much in its wide spectrum as in its wide application. 知识的力量与其说在于广博，不如说在于广泛应用。 not so much as 甚至不 He cannot so much as spell a world like this. 他连这样一个词都不会拼。 She cannot so much as read her own name. 她连自己的名字也读不出来。 John passed right by my front door without so much as dropping in on me. 约翰就在我家门前经过，都不进来看我。 if only… If only John were/was here now! If only I didn’t have to work for a living. there’s nothing like… 没有什么能比得上；以……为最 There’s nothing like a long hot bath after a day’s climbing. 爬了一天的山之后能够好好地洗个热水澡，再舒服不过了。 There’s nothing like education for breaking down class barriers. 教育是消除阶级障碍的最有效手段。 there’s nothing to/in … 在……方面不费事 There’s nothing to playing bridge so long as you work hard at it. 只要肯下功夫，打桥牌并不难。 If you have shied away from making pancakes in the past, don’t be put off—there’s really nothing in/to it. 你过去嫌难不想做烙饼吃，现在不用怕了—其实真的很容易。 be nothing to… The gift is nothing to what you have given to me. 这件礼物远远比不上你送个我的东西。 What I have done is nothing to what you expect of me. 我说做到与你所期望的相差甚远。 something of a … He was something of an essayist. 他说得上是个散文家。 She is something of an expert on ethics. 她对伦理学略有研究。 He is something of a gossip. 他是个专门搬弄是非的家伙。 much of a … He was also a great deal of a politician. 他是位出色的政治家。 He is not much of an artist. 他算不上什么了不起的艺术家。 She’s not much of a tennis player. that fool of a John （of作“相似”理解） a giant of a man/ an angel of a wife/a mountain of a wave/ her brute of a husband It is as I have said a labyrinth of an old house. 正如我所说，这是一幢迷宫似的老房子。 She was a fine figure of a woman and I could well believe that in youth she had been beautiful. 她身材窈窕，优美动人，我确信她年轻时是个美人。 She is going to marry a perfect hog of a millionaire for the sake of her father, who is as poor as a church mouse. 为了一贫如洗的父亲着想，她