That step,he said, shows it is designed to absorb those areas into Russia, both de facto and de jure, which is why Russia started the war (in August), Utiashvili said.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The ad also says it is not a production milker and not designed to replace commercial machines.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In the same way, evidence must be designed perfectly if it is to frame an innocent person to make him or her seem guilty.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

She says health facilities are a fundamental part of community life and it is important they are designed to be useful in case of emergency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

But he made clear it is regional in nature - designed to deal with the threat posed by militants and extremists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

I think it needs to be very carefully designed, and even then is only likely to be successful in a corporate environment in which there is a lot of focusing on better health."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16