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

And he asked companies and organizations to think about not only the explicate purpose for which they exist but also the explicated purpose.

他要求公司和组织,不仅考虑其存在的表面目标,也思考其深层目的。

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he tells us the purpose of the best regime the purpose of Aristotle's Republic is directed not to war but in fact to peace.

他告诉我们最佳政体的目的,亚里士多德眼中《理想国》的著作目的,并非战争,而是和平。

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"where persons were not brought to the United States at all, but were dumped in third countries for the purpose of torture."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Then you're not supposed to ever do anything that's not honest or not living up to contracts, but your purpose is only one purpose: it's the shareholder.

所以你不能做任何,不诚实或者不符合合同要求的事,你的服务人群只有一个,就是股东

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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

The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

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Michelle Obama said the purpose of the gathering was not only to pay tribute to luminaries in the struggle for equality, but also to what she called the"quiet heroes" who,in the process of shaping America, achieved extraordinary things.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Now again we're not-- the purpose of this class isn't to have you improve your diet, if that happens that's fine, but that's not the purpose of the class.

现在再次重申,本门课的目的不是改进你的饮食,如果你的饮食因此改善,那很好,但是这不是本门课的目的

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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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It's also called historical criticism, because its ultimate goal and purpose was not just to isolate the sources, but to arrange them according to relative dates as far as they might be ascertained, and then to chart changes in Israel's religion.

还被叫作历史批判学，因为其最终目标,不仅仅是分离材料，而且要根据可以确定下来的,相对日期对其进行整理，然后追踪以色列的,宗教变更。

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The purpose of law, Hobbes tell us, is not so much to control but to facilitate.

他还是说，法律的目的并非是要控制什么,而是要让事情变得井井有条更容易处理。

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It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

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