With so much concern over the swine flu, it is hard to believe anyone would want to get it on purpose.

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It has its own purpose, which is not a purpose that has any bearing necessarily on anything else.

事物自己存在的目的,与其它无关。

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6% It is over 16% and on the purpose and basis what do we spend?

超过了%,那么具体来说,我们到底花了多少钱？

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And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

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This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

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