The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.各个大洋与其说是把世界分割开，不如说是把世界连在一起。
... inspecting officers had come there not so much to see how Wegener ran things as to see how things should be run. (Tom Clancy. Clear and Present Danger, p.11)…视察的军官前来，与其说是要看韦杰纳如何办事情，不如说是要看事情该如何办才对。