The new agricultural research group says protecting against global warming is only part of its purpose.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Its purpose is not simply contemplation its purpose is not reflection alone: it is advice giving.

其目的不只是单纯的沈思,也不只是表述：,而是提供建言。

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Its purpose is to lay bare as it were the fundamental problems the fundamental concepts and categories which frame the study of politics.

它的目的一向是要提出基础的问题,最基础的概念与类别,以建立政治研究的架构。

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The Russian leader said the purpose of the negotiating process with Iran is to obtain clear guarantees about the transparency of its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

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。

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"The bill subjects our security assistance to a certification that the Pakistani government is using the money for its intended purpose, namely to combat the Taliban and al-Qaida,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

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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For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

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That is to say its purpose is not knowledge for its own sake.

这也就是说,其目的并非单纯仅为知识本身。

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Its purpose is to facilitate, not simply to control and inhibit.

请记住，法律是为了督导社会进步，而不是简单的禁止和控制。

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And its purpose in life is to maybe take input and maybe produce output.

它的唯一目的是可能是获得输入,可能是输出东西。

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Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

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It's defined in CS50's library; its sole purpose in life is to ask the user for a floating point value and return it.

它被定义在CS50的函数库中，它的唯一目的是,向用户询问一个浮点数的值，然后返回它。

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