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。
this principle is important in magnetic prospecting only insofar as it forms the basis.
这种原理就其构成基础而言,在磁法勘探中也是重要的。
the former are essential and inherent in objects, whereas the latter exist only insofar as they cause certain effects in the minds of observers.
第一性质是本质的,物质固有的。而第二性质是物质能引起我们感觉的能力。
he understood chemistry only insofar as it related to the baking time of bread at various elevations or the evaporation rate of alcohol.
他对化学的知识也仅限于有关不同海拔下烤面包的时间或者酒精的蒸发比率。
religious fundamentalists enjoin the righteous to study only one (holy) book, consulting what galileo called the book of nature only insofar as it serves to confirm their beliefs.
虔诚的基督教信徒告诫正直的人们只看那一本(圣)书,只有在证实信仰的范围内,才去参考伽利略所谓的自然一书。
so gods have power only insofar as they are connected with that primordial world 「stuff,」 a technical term that i use throughout this lecture! that means that magic is possible in such a system.
因此,众神只有在和这个原始世界的“物质“,有联系时,才会有神力,整堂课上我都会用到,“物质“这个词,这就意味着奇幻的事有可能发生。
it concerns us only insofar as sophisticated techniques had been developed for working copper and its alloys by the second millenium b. c. and could be transferred to iron-working.
截至公元前第二个千年,用于加工铜和铜合金,以及转移到加工铁的尖端技术完全决定了金属对我们的影响。
art has a relationship to morals only insofar as the peculiar quality of a work of art is an expression of the artist「s personality.
一种艺术作品的特殊性质是艺术家的人格表现;艺术只有在这种限度内才和道德发生关系。
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。
an investor」s top-down views are considered only insofar as they affect the valuation of securities.
一名投资人自上而下的观点只有在它们影响证券估值的情况下才会被考虑。
at best, though, other species impinge on conventional politics only insofar as they are commodities.
然而,其他物种对传统看法的沖击,充其量仅限于其作为有用之物时。