It's a fundamental human need to have a larger purpose and to feel like we're part of something bigger than ourselves.

这是人类最基本的需求，即我们需要有一个更宏大的目标，认为我们自己能成就更强大的自我。

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Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this daily exercise?

我记录事件和想法只是为了提醒自己，还是说这种日常练习有更大的目的？

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The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose.

北极燕鸥之所以能不受这一分神因素影响，是因为那时它被一种本能感觉所驱动着，这种本能令人类十分钦佩，它叫做：“更远大的目标”。

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It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

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But all that visual and audio stimulation serve a larger purpose: To sell a product well, to project a particular image, design has to relate to society.

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Yet in their sorrow, they see larger purpose.

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And so even as we were dealing with the economic crisis, we tried not, over the last three years, to take our eye off the larger purpose of rebuilding an economy that has a firmer foundation.

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