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

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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

• Our actions count as free insofar as our will is a cause of them.
  我们行动的自由只是指它们是由我们的意志引起的。
• Insofar as I can say now, I shall come.
  目前我只能说来。
• 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。
• 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。
• I shall do what I can insofar as I am able.
  我力所能及的都要去做。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。