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Интересует перевод выражений, содержащих указанные в теме словосочетания

примеры:

" The much vaunted and oft-repeated odes to diversity don't apply to diversity of political opinion, either. What you're describing isn't irony so much as outright hypocrisy."

"Is there irony in the sun keeping a low profile?[...] Forgive me but I must tell this joke: What there is in the sun keeping a low profile isn't irony so much as it is either a season or a time of day, namely winter and twilight--or perhaps night--respectively. Sorry, bad joke finished and we can now carry on with the grief rituals and other purposes of visiting mom's temple."

"But these unstoppable newcomers eventually overran and obliterated the great cities of the Mycenaeans, and by 1100 BC Agamemnon's people had vanished from the land. Some scholars even speculate that(this isn't irony so much as good timing) this may have even occurred while Agamemnon and the Argive host were engaged in their ten-year siege of the distant city of Troy."

The much vaunted and oft-repeated █Столь хваленые и обильные
odes to diversity █ гимны разнообразию
don't apply to diversity █не применяются к разнообразию
of political opinion, either. █ политических взглядов, в равной степени.

На татоэбе полно примеров, где  either - конечное обстоятельство, но все они очень короткие реплики. В сложном предложении такое употребление "either" будет стилистической ошибкой. Откуда пример? Если новости то это не удивительно. В век пропаганды текст перерабатывается до полного тумана ))

"это не столько ирония, сколько..."?

Цитата: kani1 от февраля  4, 2023, 19:08"это не столько ирония, сколько..."?

Да.