Dancing in the streets of London. This is a two-step with a purpose.

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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

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

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

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。

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So I always regard one purpose of this class to help hapless Yale students in their dating strategies.

我一直都觉得一门课还有个目的,就是教耶鲁的倒霉蛋们怎么约会

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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 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

If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I'm going to use the CS50 Library instead for user input I'm saying say something then I'd get a string from the user and I call time s1 and then I say, say something, s2 and then I get another string from the user and call it s2 and apparently this program's purpose in life is to tell me yes or no the user said the same thing both times.

然而我使用的是CS50库来获得用户输入,我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串,并把它叫做s1，然后我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串，并把它叫做2,这个程序的最终目的是,告诉我两次用户输入的是不是同样的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选