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.
我们必须做的是发扬长处，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.
从净化空气维持人类的可持续发展方面考虑，急需将汽车对人类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.
未必是十分精准，但至少也清楚自己有什麽条件，该定位在哪儿吧？
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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，你看到了一个,你经知道的实结果，至少在实验测量的范围内，对理想气体条件下的气体这一项很小。
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It at least overlaps to a greater extent than most of the other books.
它起码与很多其他的课本,重复了很多部分。
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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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