In Rome,where some in line were greeted with espressos and juggling clowns, a man who identified himself as Vincenzo, said he was looking for an all-purpose computer.

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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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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。

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So in formalist terms, that's the way we have to understand what, if we weren't formalists, we would suppose, as I say, to be a mnemotechnical device for the purpose of communicating something about the weather in Spain. Right?

形式主义者会这样理解，但如果我们不是形式主义者，我们就会认为这个重复单纯是为了,记住西班牙的天气，对吗？

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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

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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。

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This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

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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“

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