OG SC 96 SO MUCH AS怎么看出比较

有理想没有钱

96. One of the primary distinctions between our intelligence with that of other primates may lay not so much in any specifi c skill but in our ability to extend knowledge gained in one context to new and different ones.
(A) between our intelligence with that of other primates may lay not so much in any specific skill but
(B) between our intelligence with that of other primates may lie not so much in any specific skill but instead
(C) between our intelligence and that of other primates may lie not so much in any specific skill as
(D) our intelligence has from that of other primates may lie not in any specifi c skill as
(E) of our intelligence to that of other primates may lay not in any specifi c skill but

我一直没明白这个SO MUCH AS是怎么个比较，我能猜出这话的意思，但是直译的时候，这个SO MUCH AS我一直就觉得没有NOT BUT好，请好心人帮忙解释下我的问题出在哪里，我问题是不能翻译SO MUCH AS, 不知道他怎么比较2者，还是我对AS的用法没理解，请好心人帮忙列出AS用法，谢谢。。。。

靓linda

not so much ...as.... 解释为 “与其说...不如说...."   接平行结构