他们的目的是封锁游击队的供给线。

Their aim was to block guerrilla supply lines.

《牛津词典》

他们的目的是裁决雇主与雇员之间的纠纷。

Their purpose is to adjudicate disputes between employers and employees.

《牛津词典》

他们的目的是募集100万美元以使无家可归者不再流浪街头。

Their aim is to raise a million dollars to get the homeless off the streets.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

If you want it to take a so-called argument or a parameter, there's a subtle semantic distinction between arguments and parameter, but for all intents and purposes, they're the same thing.

如果你想要你的函数携带参数或,参量，这里有一个微妙的语义差别在,参数和参量之中，但是为了所有的意图,和目的，他们作用是一样的。

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The brothers desire to hear justice praised for itself alone, and that seems to be expressive of their own freedom from mercenary motives and incentives.

这对兄弟档,想听到正义自我礼赞，这似乎也显露出,他们不受金钱目的,及奖励约束的自由。

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And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

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