Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

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So if you're going to use it for this purpose, it's not going to be good by itself.

所以如果你想用橄榄油清洁身体,它的气味并不是一个理想的选择

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

VOA: special.2010.03.31

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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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

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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"There are serious question marks within the international community regarding the purpose and nature of Iran's program and these need to be clarified."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

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