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。
• Insofar as I can say now, I shall come.
  目前我只能说来。
• 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。
• 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。
• The orderer can only invoke foreign law insofar as the claim would also be justified if the provisions mentioned above and these general terms and conditions of business were applied.
  只有在上述条款和这些通用商务条款和条件同样适用的情况下，订购方才能援引外国法律以使索赔合理。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。