| 释义 |
not to sayAs well as; in addition to being. Used to indicate a stronger, more emphatic, or more candid description to what has just been written or spoken of. I think it would be an incredibly ill-advised, not to say downright foolish, not to accept his offer at this point in time. His behavior is boorish, not to say contemptible. ˈnot to say used to suggest that you could, with good reason, use a stronger word to describe somebody/something: He is very difficult, not to say impossible, to understand. |