No longer was the purpose simply to bring the southern states back into the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"In one of those speeches, I declared that I had no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

I'm going to use the CS50 Library instead for user input I'm saying say something then I'd get a string from the user and I call time s1 and then I say, say something, s2 and then I get another string from the user and call it s2 and apparently this program's purpose in life is to tell me yes or no the user said the same thing both times.

然而我使用的是CS50库来获得用户输入,我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串,并把它叫做s1，然后我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串，并把它叫做2,这个程序的最终目的是,告诉我两次用户输入的是不是同样的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For some,the scrutiny and publicizing of past intelligence operations serves no purpose but to aid America's enemies.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24