notonly.butratherIstandbeforeyoutoday,therepresentativeofafamilyingrief,inacountryinmourningbeforeaworldinshock.WeareallunitednotonlyinourdesiretopayourrespectstoDianabutratherinourneedtodoso.Forsuchwashe

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not only.but rather
I stand before you today,the representative of a family in grief,in a country in mourning before a world in shock.We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so.For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her,feel that they,too,lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning.
一：它是省略句吗?还是介词短语表原因呢?not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so.
二：not only.but rather 结构意思：是不仅.更重要不?

Answer 1

1.个人认为是做介词短语表原因
2.实际上这个句型是 not only ……but also also此处省略. rather 做副词,加强语气的作用,
我们团结一心,不仅是想要,更是需要向戴安娜王妃表达我们的敬意