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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Insofar as such statements have any meaning, the people who make them seem to be comparing implicitly or explicitly the aggregate gross domestic product of countries or blocs.
  就这类说法的意义而言，说这些话的人似乎在含蓄或明确的比较这些国家或国家集团的国内生产总值（GDP）。
• 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。
• 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。
• What is decisive in the refutation of this view has already been said by Hegel, insofar as this was possible from an idealist standpoint;
  对驳斥这一观点具有决定性的东西，凡是从唯心主义观点出发所能说的，黑格尔都已经说了；