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他平时话不多，在辩论赛上反而成了最活跃的人。
Tā píngshí huà bù duō, zài biànlùnsài shang fǎn'ér chéng le zuì huóyuè de rén.
He usually doesn't say much, but at the debate he turned out to be the most active of all.
吃了药，他的病不但没好，反而更严重了。
Chī le yào, tā de bìng búdàn méi hǎo, fǎn'ér gèng yánzhòng le.
After taking the medicine, his illness didn't get better – instead it got worse.
反而 is an adverb, so it goes after the subject (他反而…), not before it like the conjunction 但是.
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