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

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Let's flip back a step beyond that to Mycenaean civilization for the purpose of noting the great contrast, the great change.

让我们跳回到迈锡尼时代,比较看看两者间巨大的差异,也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Everything has, has more of a purpose.

每件事都会更有目的性。

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

VOA: special.2009.04.16

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

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

It is testimony to what can be achieved by a transatlantic community that acts with a clear sense of common purpose,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Now ultimately, the purpose of investing in a share is to get the dividends; that's the whole named purpose of the corporation.

股票投资是为了取得股利,这也是公司明确的目标

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In a White House statement, President Obama said the bombings "serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

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

It is a knowledge of how to act where the purpose of action is acting well.

这是一种如何表现,将动作目的完整诠译的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With a solar powered sail and using the sun and wind to power the batteries, the purpose of the mission is to show that renewable energy works.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

So it has a sort of intellectual purpose to it.

所以这也带有知识目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The purpose here is to look at a series of processes in which temperature is held constant, and we're going to calculate how much work we get from allowing a gas to expand under various conditions.

目的是让大家了解一下,几个保持温度不变的过程，然后我们将计算,气体在不同膨胀过程中,的对外做功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"They're a small group and their purpose is to show their own strength against the general society which they feel is a mockery of Jewish identity or a mockery of what a Jewish society should be.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

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

Clinton said a North Korean missile launch, for any purpose, would be a provocative act and a violation of U.N.Security Council resolution 1718 - approved after its 2006 nuclear test- demanding an end to Pyonyang's nuclear weapon and missile programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So we'll talk a bit more about this idea of functions today, but, get int, again, can think of it as a black box, whose purpose in life is to prompt the human for input and pester the human if he or she doesn't actually give it int, but then once it has that, has entered it from the user, it's quote unquote, returns it to you.

所以我们进今天将多讨论点这个函数的概念，但是，GetInt，我们可以把它当做一个黑盒子，它的唯一目的是提示人们来输入,并且如果他或她没有,给它int数，则会纠缠用户，但是一旦它得到了，用户输入的int数，对输入进行引用，返回给你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Does the Prime Minister not understand that the purpose of an inquiry is not just to produce a set of conclusions, but to allow the people of Britain to come to terms with a mistake made in their name,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

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

The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Of course, he turns it into productive purpose, so there are a couple examples from that article.

当然,他将其转化为有成效的想法,那篇文章上有一些例子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选