So,do they serve a purpose in reducing physical pain?

VOA: special.2009.08.18

It has its own purpose, which is not a purpose that has any bearing necessarily on anything else.

事物自己存在的目的,与其它无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Everything has, has more of a purpose.

每件事都会更有目的性。

身为大学生很快乐 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Every line has a purpose, and so is beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.

上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Dancing in the streets of London. This is a two-step with a purpose.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

So with that said, perhaps just to add to that, the fourth passage: "Beauty is the form of the purposiveness of an object so far as it is perceived in it without any representation of a purpose."

所以据上所述，啊，再加一点，现在看，第四篇文章：，“美是事物存在的目的,尽管这种合目的性并不是显而易见的，你可能要问了“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Sometimes they serve a purpose.

有些能达到阐述的目的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He leads a big church in California and has sold millions of copies of books about "The Purpose Driven Life."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

But his question is still one that lingers and one that Plato includes for a purpose.

但他的问题仍萦回不散,且柏拉图是因为一个目的来加以收录。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Lincoln himself said his purpose was to provide "an open field and a fair chance in life."

VOA: special.2009.02.09

It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And he wants to emphasize Hanson himself has a farm that specializes in grapes for the purpose of producing raisins.

他想强调的是,汉森他自己拥有一片农庄,有着专门生产葡萄干的专家

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Historians say that by writing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln established a moral purpose for the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People felt that a year had been wasted, that thousands had died for no real purpose.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

And so that's the part of the brain that's the key part of a body for the purpose of personal identity.

所以大脑,这个身体最关键的部位,就是人格统一性的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This can be a problem even though earwax appears to serve an important purpose.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Now, the purpose of this exercise is to give you a little bit of practice in figuring out what these quantities are.

就有这样的结论,这个练习的作用时让你们理解,这些物理量是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

We chose the name "American Mosaic" because the purpose of the show is to create a picture of life in the United States through many small stories.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

When I think about the two dimensions I'd like to explore first, I'd like to let you think about for a while the purpose of education.

在想两种形式的教育时,我要先进行探究，我希望你们先思考一下,教育的目的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They also worked on a platform -- a statement of their party's purpose.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Julie says we can't put a number on human life for the purpose of a cost-benefit analysis.

朱莉认为，我们不该为了成本效益分析,给人的生命标价。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Clowns have a real purpose: to make people laugh.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选