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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Insofar as the latter are not handed over to the third party, they must be destroyed.
  如复印件和打印件没有转给第三方，应将其销毁？
• Insofar as you are a student of our college, you have.
  只要你是我们学院的学生就可以使用我们图书馆的设施。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。