Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Aristotle, over 2000 years ago, "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, " the whole aim and end of human existence."

二千多年前的亚里斯多德，“快乐是人生的意义和目的，人类存在的最终目标“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

对亚里士多德而言,政治科学的论点与目的,是要调解形成派系的起因,避免派系形成，因那会导致革新与内战。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

And when you can write that down, for me, there is just tremendous sense of creativity and of purpose and meaning.

当你能把它写出来的时候，对我个人来说，会感到这种来自巨大的创造性,目的性，意义性的满足感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Second explicate purpose for the education institutions is to allow students to practice and to apply what they've learnt.

第二个教育体系的,表面目标是,给学生实践的机会,让他们运用所学的知识。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

That is to say, the arts of interpretation are used for the purpose of discovering, uncovering, and arriving at meaning.

也就是，语言被用于,探索，发现，事物真正的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And so you get to build your own special purpose programming language that helped you solve your problems in biology or finance or whatever,

你读过的类型都可以,所以你就可以让编程语言按照你的,特殊用途去解决你的生物学,财务或者任何类型的问题，

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They believed the South wanted to win Mexican territory for the purpose of spreading and strengthening slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

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

Maps for the purpose exist. But they are in paper form and often not widely available.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

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

In addition to the study and care of rare wildlife, the institute has another purpose.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

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

The purpose is to help LGBT -- lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender -- young people.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.

这个比喻的目的,是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子,带来的模糊和困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They sometimes shout and move with no purpose or goal.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Nutrients get broken down into several classes and these are the constituents of food that your body uses for one purpose or another.

营养素这个问题需要花几节课来讨论,它们是食物的组成要素,供给身体吸收,支持身体机能运转

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Every line has a purpose, and so is beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

6% It is over 16% and on the purpose and basis what do we spend?

超过了%,那么具体来说,我们到底花了多少钱？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Arthur had great energy and sense of purpose.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

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

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

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

"The purpose of the awards was to give those high school students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

They're just numbers thought up for the purpose: and .

他们只是些数字罢了,和

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And my purpose will be not to say something as a postulate, but to show you where everything comes from, and it's best for you if you try to follow the logic.

我的目的不是,简单地告诉你们一个假说,而是给你们讲清楚这个理论的来龙去脉,如果你们能理解推导过程那就再好不过

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选