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.- 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
- 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。 - Insofar as I can say now, I shall come.
目前我只能说来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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）。 - This other way of reading goes against the preceding insofar as it immediately refers a book to Exteriority.
这种另类的阅读方式违背前文内容，因为它立刻将书本引到外在事件。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。