Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.

美国法律规定，如果你仅因为年龄原因辞退员工，

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The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

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

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Now ultimately, the purpose of investing in a share is to get the dividends; that's the whole named purpose of the corporation.

股票投资是为了取得股利,这也是公司明确的目标

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The purpose was to see if the country's nineteen largest banks could survive losses in the event that the recession got even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The purposeful is the purpose of the object in practical terms.

目的性“是从实际应用角度来说的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The purpose of a good law is to facilitate human agency in some ways.

一部好的法律应当是,为促进更好的权力而制定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Spokeswoman Lenore Ostrowsky says the purpose is to identify if discrimination is taking place in schools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

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

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

We chose the name "American Mosaic" because the purpose of the show is to create a picture of life in the United States through many small stories.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.

你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"In one of those speeches, I declared that I had no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

I'm sure they sold it in various forms, but one of the most popular was for this purpose.

我确信他们出售各种用途的橄榄油,但最普遍的还是作为清洁工具

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"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

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In recent years, the purpose of the festival has evolved into raising scholarship money to help young musicians in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The purpose of these exercises is to save lives in the future, when Marines are sent out on real missions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"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

I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now, the purpose of this exercise is to give you a little bit of practice in figuring out what these quantities are.

就有这样的结论,这个练习的作用时让你们理解,这些物理量是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选