昨晚看BBC的words in the news有一句話不是很明白。
原句: "The tin bore no expiry date, so to adapt an old saying, it seems the
proof of the lard, if not the pudding, really was in the eating."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(出處: http://tinyurl.com/7xeh7uy)
我找了原idiom為: The proof of the pudding is in the eating，
意思大概是說凡事都要經過試驗(OR the way to judge something is by its results)
那我的問題是，原作者可能為了詼諧採用此idiom，並把lard改成pudding，
但是插入句中那個"if not"的用法為何呢?
可以用rather than或instead of替代嗎?
請求指導了，謝謝!
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