By 1981 the docks had, to all intents and purposes, closed.

到1981年，这些码头几乎等于关闭了。

《牛津词典》

To all intents and purposes he was my father.

他实际上可以称得上是我的父亲。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I think we're talking at cross purposes; that's not what I meant at all.

我想我们是说到两下里去了，我根本不是那个意思。

《牛津词典》

So the teachers can create the system which is multi-dementional in these purposes and take full advantage of the technology without jeopardizing all the different dimensions of learning.

所以，老师可以建立,多种传统目标融合教育,充分利用技术,而且不会损害,学习的不同方面。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

As you may know, there's yet another organization where we could group this in units of four but for all intents and purposes-- there are a few nuances to it-- four is simply a multiplication of two.

也许你知道的,还有另外一种组织方式,我们可以四拍一组,但是不论出于什么动机或者目的,这其中的区别甚微,四拍就是两拍的简单相乘

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The minutes ticked away to years as the Bosnian crisis claimed many thousands of lives, got Europeans themselves at cross-purposes and all but ruptured the transatlantic alliance.

ECONOMIST: Doubts on both sides of the Atlantic

It seemed to me to be a different world yet it was simply a dour hillside quarrying village producing stone for all kinds of industrial purposes - the finer, harder types for grindstones for the 'little mesters' of the Sheffield cutlery trade and for lining furnaces in the steelworks.

BBC: Memories of 1930s South Yorkshire: T' pint pots on t' cornish

But it really does remind us of the early MP3 players back in the late 90s: maybe the content isn't as readily accessible as we might like, but the hardware is starting to come into its own (we have a feeling 3rd generation will be prime time), and damned if we don't want to start using this thing for all our bookwormish purposes post-haste.

ENGADGET: Sony Reader PRS-505 (second gen) hands-on: we're in love