But Madam Walker said her purpose was to help women have healthy hair.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

The world is good; humans are important; They have purpose and dignity.

世界很美好，人类很重要;,他们有目的和尊严。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So in this context, the river of oblivion serves an obvious purpose in the context we have here in Book Two.

故在这部分文本中，遗忘之河便是为了遗忘而存在的,在第二册书正是这样体现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Clowns have a real purpose: to make people laugh.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

This is how we address that purpose of education to give students an opportunity to apply in practice what they have learnt.

借此，我们确立了,教育的目标之一,即给学生机会,将所学知识用于实践。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"On this day,we gather because we have chosen hope over fear,unity of purpose over conflict and discord,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Not all of the novels aspire to or have as their purpose that kind of difficulty that sometimes English majors really want.

不是所有的小说都希望或者拥有,英语主修生想到的那种难度。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We are awarding President Obama for his extraordinary efforts in order to strengthen dialogue in the world, to resolve conflicts by negotiations and through the international bodies that we have for that purpose,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And that is the whole point of the exercise." Since Africa Command was established last year, critics have argued the purpose of the command is to militarize American foreign policy on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

This is on purpose, because one of the things I hope you have learned to do this semester, is look up things you don't know, and figure out what they do. What they mean.

我举这个程序是有目的的，因为我希望你们这续期能学到,如何去查找你不知道的东西并，且弄懂它,们是干什么的，是什么意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

We were both wondering, you have this general purpose computer next to your ear why were you not able to make that sale?

我们都在想，你手边就有一台电脑,为什么你不能完成这次买卖？

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For our purpose I think we won't have to go there.

根据我们的目的,我们不需要讨论这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选