insofar as

英 [ˌɪnsəˈfɑːr əz]

美 [ˌɪnsəˈfɑːr əz]

conj.  在…的情况下；就…一点上（来说）；在…范围（限度）内

Collins.1

柯林斯词典

• PHR-CONJ-SUBORD 在…的范围内;到…的程度;只要
  You useinsofar asto introduce a statement which explains and adds to something you have just said.
  1. Looking back helps insofar as it helps you learn from your mistakes.
     审视过去的作用是能帮你从错误中吸取教训。

双语例句

• Welding procedures shall be selected to minimize the residual stresses insofar as practical.
  在选择焊接工艺时应使残余应力最小化。
• Services are useful only insofar as they are consumed, and so the best way of specifying their usefulness is to describe what consumers expect of them.
  服务只有被消费了才有用；所以，要规定服务的效用，最好的方式就是描述消费者对它们有何期望。
• But this student unrest is also a good thing, insofar as it is a reminder to us.
  这件事发生了，也是好事，提醒了我们。
• The Fed believes the earlier assets purchases worked, insofar as they lowered long-term interest rates.
  美联储相信，就降低长期利率而言，前两轮资产购买行动起到了作用。
• I think services themselves can be adequately described, insofar as their technical specification, through a WSDL or WADL.
  我认为通过WSDL或者WADL这些技术规范，服务可以充分地实现自我描述。
• But, insofar as they succeed, they create a recurrent problem for themselves.
  但只要他们成功了，他们就为自己创造重复出现的问题。
• Punishments are essential for improvements, insofar as they imply that health damage and death tolls are infinitely more harmful and costly to a society than initial safety and health measures would have been.
  要进步就要有惩罚措施，健康被毁和死亡远比早期采取安全和预防措施对社会造成的伤害来得大。
• However, such provisions are of evidentiary value insofar as they bear upon questions of custom and practice.
  但是，此条款具有习惯与实务上无上的价值。
• Since linguistic signs only carry out their functions or possess their semantic properties only insofar as there is a practice of interpretation.
  由于语言符号仅包含了它们的作用，和语意特征，前提是存在对它们的解释。
• She had felt complete sympathy with the movement insofar as she perceived it.
  在她所能领悟到的范围内，她完全同情那场运动。