"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

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

This is on purpose, because one of the things I hope you have learned to do this semester, is look up things you don't know, and figure out what they do. What they mean.

我举这个程序是有目的的，因为我希望你们这续期能学到,如何去查找你不知道的东西并，且弄懂它,们是干什么的，是什么意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"From the beginning of the program, there was only one focused and all-important purpose: we sought and we obtained specific information on terrorist plans,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

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

Nutrients get broken down into several classes and these are the constituents of food that your body uses for one purpose or another.

营养素这个问题需要花几节课来讨论,它们是食物的组成要素,供给身体吸收,支持身体机能运转

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In the first lecture, I talked about a lot of things, but one theme that comes to my mind is the theme of the moral purpose and mission of the finance community.

第一课里，我讲了很多东西，但中心主旨,就是金融界的道德目标和使命。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And the purpose of this course is to show you over and over and over again that starting with those one or two laws, you can deduce everything, and I would encourage you to think the same way.

这门课的目的,就是要反复告诉你们,从其中的一两条定律出发,你可以推导出一切,我鼓励你们用同样的方法来思考

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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