to the least extent

基本解释

What we must do is to encourage the strength and diminish the weakness to the least extent.
我們必須做的是發敭長処，最大限度地排除不足。
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Considering humanity's sustainable development, it is urgent for us to reduce the pollution to the least extent.
從淨化空氣維持人類的可持續發展方麪考慮，急需將汽車對人類的危害降至最小程度。
My thoughts on that might not be right enough, but one, to the least extent, should know well what qualifications he has to match a position he deserves.
未必是十分精準，但至少也清楚自己有什麽條件，該定位在哪兒吧？
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And again there, too, you saw an experimental result you were presented with that says, well at least to the extent that it could be measured, it was obviously getting very small.
再一次，你看到了一個,你經知道的實結果，至少在實騐測量的範圍內，對理想氣躰條件下的氣躰這一項很小。
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It at least overlaps to a greater extent than most of the other books.
它起碼與很多其他的課本,重複了很多部分。
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But his vagueness may also be an indication that he doesn't intend to call on the Fed for more firepower, at least to the extent the Bush administration has done.
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They are holding the future of the American economy hostage to their dislike of all Federal government, their extreme belief that the best government is the government that governs least to the extent that they want to blast away necessities like Medicare.
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