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.- 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。
- Looking back helps insofar as it helps you learn from your mistakes.
双语例句
- We should fear models only insofar as we are able to forget that we are using them at all.
我们畏惧模型，皆因我们会完全忘记自己在使用它们。 - They differ from the manual workers only insofar as they perform different roles in the social division of labour.
他们与体力劳动者的区别，只是社会分工的不同。 - And insofar as thought is analytical, it doesn't demand that.
既然思想是分析性的，所以不需要思想。 - 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。 - 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。 - You will learn you lessons only insofar as you are willing to keep studying them.
你的功课能学多少，完全视你肯努力的情形而定。 - The government insofar as possible is only creating the macroeconomic conditions that will allow the economy to function well.
政府只是在可能范围内创造有利于经济良好运行的宏观经济环境。 - Insofar as I can say now, I shall come.
目前我只能说来。 - 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。 - A planet does not signify one thing except insofar as it brings it about.
行星并不意味着某件事，除非是其导致发生的情况下。