Looking back helps insofar as it helps you learn from your mistakes.
回顾往事助人进步,基于它可以帮助你从错误中学习。
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For one thing, they're reliable insofar as they're based on unbiased samples.
首先,如若它们基于无偏见的样本,那么它们就很可靠。
In a sense this is inescapable: meaning exists only insofar as it means to someone, and literary works are written in order to evoke sets of responses in the reader.