The aim in this context, in this sense--the aim of all life is death.

在这种语境下，所有生命的目的就是死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of the purposes of cell culture is to make many, many more cells under controlled conditions where I can understand what those cells are.

细胞培养的一个目的就是,在可控的环境下生成许许多多的细胞,从而让我能够研究这些细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

All right. What does this have to do with my divisor example? This says I can make tuples, but imagine now going back to my divisor example and I want to gather up the elements as I go along. I ought to be able to do that by in fact just adding the pieces in.

这意味着我可以创建元组了,但是想像下回到我们的除数的例子,在处理过程中我们想把目标数的除数,收集起来，我应该能够通过把这些数,一个一个加进来来实现这个目的,我正是要去这么做，也就是。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The physicalist says we don't need to appeal to anything as extravagant as a soul in order to explain the fact that bodies don't just move randomly, but they move in purposeful ways that are controlled.

物理主义认为,我们并不需要诉诸任何,像灵魂那样夸张的东西来解释,为什么肉体不会随机乱动,而是在控制下进行的有目的的活动

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's all they do all night, but they also are talking and they're talking very well as a matter of fact, and the goal of this conversation is, or of this party rather, Symposium means by the way drinking together.

他们彻夜豪饮,但同时也谈经论道,事实上,他们还讨论得不亦乐乎,这场讨论的目的,或是说这场聚会的目的是,顺便说下,"Symposium"的意思是"一起喝酒"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What is the purpose of the test, by the way?

顺便说下，测试的目的是什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选