分类：教育/科学-外语学习-英语考试
问题：Istandbeforeyoutoday,therepresen? 
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 uned 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 millI stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock. We are all uned 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. 请问各位老师、英语高手两个问题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？
回答：We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so.

并列连词not only...but also...可以不用also而说成not only...but...，这里并列的是两个名词desire和need，并没有什么省略。

至于rather在此则为副词，相当于somewhat，起弱化语气的作用。这句话的意思是：我们万众一心，不仅有向戴安南致敬的意愿，而且从某种程度上也有这么做的必要。