In American history our reform crusades have usually had to do with one of several objects or purposes or problems.

在美国历史上我们为理想而进行的改革,通常与如下几个目的,或意图,或者问题之一有关联

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It turns out not, but it does evince the fact that we have some basic syntax like mathematics and equal signs and whatnot with which we can now start using for more useful purposes.

结果不是那样的，但这的确有个事实,我们有些基本的运算法则和等号和,其他一些东西，用来为我们一些,更多有用的目的而服务的。

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There's the insurance company, could be a corporation and it could be either a non-profit corporation or a for-profit corporation owned by shareholders.

一个保险公司,可以是,非盈利性股份公司,也可以是以盈利为目的的股份公司

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Then we would do them. Because they certainly not aiming to do harm. Shall we continue?

因为这些袭击肯定不是以破坏为目的的，我们还要继续吗？

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Aristotle, remember, argues that all action is goal-directed, is goal-oriented.

亚里士多德认为，所有行动都是有目的的，都是为目的服务的。

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I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

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In a for-profit corporation, the purpose of the entity is defined as profit for the shareholders.

在一家盈利性公司中,公司的目的是为股东谋求利益

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Religion had to bring a softening effect upon against the violent and bestial character of the early Romans. But for us today, Machiavelli writes, religion has to serve the opposite purpose.

宗教必须带来一种缓和效应，用以针对,早期罗马人的野蛮残忍的性格,但是对于今天的我们来说，马基雅维利写道，宗教不得不为相反的目的服务。

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It's reasonable because it's meant TMP for temporary purposes just to call it temp or T-M-P for short, X and I can define temp as -- why don't I set it as equal to X, initially, because now that I've stored X in a separate chunk of memory, I can now change its value and then I can say Y gets, not X, but temp, and so now I've actually swapped these values.

这是合理的，因为它是为,暂时的目的，只要叫它Temp或简称它为，我可以定义temp为--为什么我不把它设定为等于，最初的，因为现在我把X存储在一个单独的内存块中,我现在可以改变它的值，然后我说Y等于，不是X，而是temp，所以现在我交换这些值。

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All political action aims at preservation or change.

所有的政治行动,都是以保守或变革为目的。

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