Sentence examples for not really equivalent from inspiring English sources

The results indicate that the evaluation terms of happiness (xingfu), satisfaction (manyi), and good life (hao shenghuo) are not really equivalent, but that they are even less similar to the emotion terms enjoying life (xiangshou shenghuo) and happy (kuaile).

I think here it's more complex than sexism, there isn't really an equivalent system here apart from going to bloody Cambridge and getting daddy's friend at the BBC to look at your Edinburgh fringe reviews.

Where I come from, there isn't really any equivalent to this quintessentially American phenomenon; and as a result, every year, thousands of young British people collect their degrees and head into the world in a dangerously uninspired state – not knowing, for example, whether or not they should say "yes" to life, or follow their hearts, or dare to be different.

I don't remember the exact circumstances but Alan and I were talking and there are a lot of books along the lines of Maltin's film guide and David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film, but there wasn't really an equivalent for television.

"There isn't really an equivalent genre of advertising now and that's why they're so special.

While there are quasi-public institutions that sustain mortgage and home-buying demand through weak parts of the economic cycle, there isn't really an equivalent on the construction financing side.

There aren't really any equivalent adult experiences that match the matter-of-fact tenderness of a tree-climbing-rescue-mission, are there?

Such rescues are not really loans, but the equivalent of equity investments by taxpayers, he said.

I've seen girls draw power from an especially sassy Beyoncé.gif like an iPhone charges from a USB plug, but there's not really been a deified equivalent for dudes.

Iskandar R. Idris, Sheffield, U.K., took the contrary position, that diabetes is not really a cardiovascular risk equivalent, while recognizing that it is a major risk factor for developing CVD (52) and that after myocardial infarction, diabetes increases risk (53).

Not disturbing it is the quantum-mechanical equivalent of not really looking.