1.not so much as... "甚至不..." 或 "甚至…都没有"
注意：not有时可以换用without。
He doesn't so much as invite his best friends.
他甚至连他最好的朋友都没邀请。
Not so much as a damp spot.
甚至连一个湿点都没有。
She never so much as spoke.
她连话都没有说。
Not so much as a damp spot.
甚至连一个湿点都没有。
He never so much as said “Thanks”.
他甚至连谢都不谢一声。
He spoke never so much as a word
他甚至连一句话也没说。
He did not so much as thank me
他甚至都没谢我。
He did not so much as glance that way．
他甚至没有向那个方向看一眼。
She is a society woman，but strange to say，she cannot so much as write her own name．
她是一个社交妇女，但说来也怪，她甚至连自己的名字都不会写。
The window was so narrow that one could not so much as get one's head through．
那窗子小得连头都伸不出去。
He went away without so much as saying goodbye.
他甚至不辞而别。
she left without so much as a nod．
她的头也不点一下就离开了。
She left without so much as saying “good-bye”.
她甚至连 “再见”都没说就走了。
John left without so much as saying "Thank you."
约翰甚至于不说一声“谢谢”就离开了。
He had not so much as his fare home.
他甚至连回家的车费都没有。
The policeman walked through the crowd without so much as turning his face to either side．
那警察连向旁边看都没看一下就从人群中走过去了。
Echo shall not so much as whisper my hiding place.
即使那回声也说不出我的藏身之处。
Real Madrid have taken all 24 of the last points at stake without so much as a draw.
皇家马德里已经在过去的八场比赛中收获了24分，并且没有一场平局。
2、not so much...as... "与其说是…不如说是…"
not so much...as... 是一个常用的并列连词，其含义相当于rather than，意为"与其说是……倒不如说是……"。和其它连接词一样，它可以连接词与词，短语与短语以及句子与句子。
They weren't so much islands as sandbars．
与其说那是些岛屿，还不如说都是些沙洲。
It wasn't so much the clothes as the man himself who impressed immediately．
立即给人以深刻印象的与其说是衣服，还不如说是这个人本身。
It wasn't so much his appearance I liked as like personality．
我所喜欢的，与其说是他的外表，不如说是他的个性。
The great use of a school education is not so much to teach you things as to teach you the art of learning．
学校的最大作用，不在于教你一些知识，而在于教你学习的方法。
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it．
与其说世界以洋分界，不如说以洋连在一起。
He was not so much angry as disappointed.
他的失望甚於恼怒。
Success lies not so much as in luck as in hard work.
与其说成功在于运气不如说是辛勤努力。（"in luck"和"in hard work"是介词短语，所以两个前都加了as，前边的介词短语也可以不加as，如下一句）
Disputes between managers and owners are settled not so much by consultation as by litigation.
管理者与所有者之间的纠纷与其通过磋商解决还不如通过诉讼解决。
The knight is not so much brave as reckless.
那位武士与其说是英勇，还不如说是有勇无谋。
Your explanation does not so much enlighten us as confuse us.
你的解释没有起到启发作用，反而把我们弄糊涂了。
The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it. (=The oceans do not divide the world so much as unite it.)
与其说是海洋分割这个世界，不如说是统一这个世界。
Not so much as captains of industry but as wealth creators. Innovators. Visionaries.
他们并非行业的最高代言人，但是他们却是财富的创造者、革新者和预见者。
The trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn't bothered by his loudness so much as by his lack of talent.
这个吹喇叭的已经很大声了，但是，让我心烦的不是音量，而是他太缺乏天分了。（根本没在调上…哈哈）
not so much …… but …… 结构
but比as语气上更强调肯定后者。
1）The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what
nobody yet has thought.
学习任务不是去明白没有人明白的事情，而是去思考没有人思考过的事情。
2）The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲剧不在于受多少苦，而在于错过了什么。
3.not ...so much as... "不如…那样多…"
There is nothing in the world that I liked so much as music．
我爱好音乐胜过世界上其他任何东西。
I haven't seen so much of the world as he.
我见过的世面没有他那么多。
The farmer looks wealthy，but he has not so much wealth as people at large think．
看上去这个农夫很有钱，但没有一般世人所想象的那样有钱。
He does not smoke so much as you.
他抽烟没有你抽得多。
Nothing gets me down so much as the flu.
什么病有像这次流感那样使我身体这么虚弱。
The oceans do not divide the world so much as unite it.(=The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.)
与其说是海洋分割这个世界，不如说是统一这个世界。（海洋统一世界比分割这个世界多）
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
没有什么能够像装成自然的意愿那么妨碍我们显得自然。
Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
最使我们不能自然的，莫过于想要显得自然的欲望。
Nobody has so much to worry them as he has.
没有人像他那麽烦恼。
It is not intellect that tells so much as character.
智能并不像品性那样有影响。
He is not nearly so much interested as I thought.
他几乎不像我想的那样有兴趣。
He is not a politician so much as a common rogue.
与其说是他是一个政客，倒不如说他是一个普通的流氓。
It is not the boy that talks so much as the girl.
这个男孩并不像那个女孩说那样多的话。
This is really not a political issue so much as a moral issue.
这不仅仅是个政治问题，更是一个道德问题。
Nothing spoil a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
没有一样事情比女性的幽默感更有伤风流韵事的了。
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
没有比拥有常识及朴实无华的举止更令人惊奇。
Bear in mind that it is not fine clothes so much as clean ones that makes a gentleman.
牢牢记住，使人成为绅士的倒不在于华丽的衣服而应该是干净的衣服才对。
并不是所有的so much as 都是以上句型中的一个，这个要具体分析，还有可能是其他的句型，如
She loves the boy so much as though he were her own son.
她爱那个男孩，就象爱她自己的儿子一样。
其中so much 和 as though（"仿佛...", "好像..."）是两个短语。
This statement is important in so much as it revealed the extent of their knowledge.
这一陈述显示了他们了解情况之多，因而十分重要。
其中"in so much"是副词短语，意为“就此程度而言”。
"Yuan" is the name of Chinese monetary, RMB does not devaluate so much as western experts predicted, on the contrary, it is stronger than ever.
元“是中国货币的名称，在东南亚金融危机后，人民币没有像西方预料的那样贬值，相反它比以前更加坚挺。（as意为“像...那样”）
Often, money and technology are not the issue, he said, so much as access to basic information about risks and simple ways to bolster buildings.
通常，钱和技术不是问题，他说，关于风险的基本信息和支撑建筑的简单方法的信息的获得同样不是问题。
We is very much surprised at your inattention to a matter of so much importance as a dishonoured draft.
像汇票遭拒付这样重要的事情，竟未引起贵方的注意，我们甚感惊讶。
4、as much as
1.像…那么多；多达
2.和…同样程度
3.和…差不多，几乎等于；实际上，事实上
4.到…程度，多达…；和…一样多
5.和…一样，正如[见many]
The clerk as much as told me that I was a fool.
那位职员等于告诉我我是个傻瓜！
