for as much as this的意思|示意

This test—like North Korea’s missile test two months ago—was most likely conducted as much for domestic reasons as it was to send a message to the United States.

这一次核试验——就像两个月以前的那次导弹试验一样——虽然目标在于向美国传达信息，但是其国内的目的可能也同样的重要。

The challenge is for us to cultivate as much optimism as we can muster, and to do this in anticipation of the unforeseen.

这其中我们遇到的挑战是我们要尽能力集合多点乐观并培养这种精神，在没有预计到的情况下也要这样做。

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you so much, Carla, and thanks for your leadership in this undertaking as well as so much else.

非常感谢，卡拉，谢谢你在这项事业和其他众多事务中发挥的领导作用。

For a while this made sense: each new generation pared costs by as much as half.

曾有一时，这种策略也有作用，每升级一代产品都能降低近一半的成本。

This practice may be exposing central banks to too much credit risk, as well as stalling the recovery of the market for mortgage-backed assets.

此举也许会使央行面临过大的信用危机，同时也有可能会延缓抵押支持资产市场的复苏进程。

He found all of this too tedious for words, and retreated to his workshop, where he avoided the three of them as much as possible.

他发现这一切太乏味了，不值得说些什么，所以他返回自己的工作室，在那里他就可以尽量避开他们三个了。