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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。