问题: 某经典小说里的一段，请帮忙解释，谢谢！
Of course this was a long time ago,and until
last week I hadn't seen Joe Bell in several
years.of and on we'd kept in touch,and
occasionally I'd stopped by his bar when
passing through the neighbourhood; but
actually never been strong friends except in as much as we were both friends of Holly Golightly.
请解释 in as much as 的用法，谢谢！
解答:
其实那个完全是修饰感情的，你大可以说actually never been strong friends except we were both friends of Holly Golightly. 这种说出来就是很平淡，陈述你们都是holly的朋友，加上as much as，就好像你告诉别人说，我和他的关系顶多是因为我们都认识holly。有点急于澄清什么的意思。在这句话里可以理解为，顶多的意思。这个你要根据语境来揣摩，老外说话都很随意，没有说这个词固定什么意思，不同的句子里意思都不一样。 这是我的经验，我在加拿大生活5年了。
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