A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So it has a sort of intellectual purpose to it.

所以这也带有知识目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Second explicate purpose for the education institutions is to allow students to practice and to apply what they've learnt.

第二个教育体系的,表面目标是,给学生实践的机会,让他们运用所学的知识。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

That is to say, the arts of interpretation are used for the purpose of discovering, uncovering, and arriving at meaning.

也就是，语言被用于,探索，发现，事物真正的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

And so you get to build your own special purpose programming language that helped you solve your problems in biology or finance or whatever,

你读过的类型都可以,所以你就可以让编程语言按照你的,特殊用途去解决你的生物学,财务或者任何类型的问题，

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

And he wants to emphasize Hanson himself has a farm that specializes in grapes for the purpose of producing raisins.

他想强调的是,汉森他自己拥有一片农庄,有着专门生产葡萄干的专家

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

" I have no purpose," he said, "either directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The centrality Aristotle ascribes to politics forces us to consider another question ? namely what is the purpose of this study?

亚里士多德加到政治中的,中心论点迫使我们考虑另一个问题,即这门研究的目的为何？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

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

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.

这个比喻的目的,是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子,带来的模糊和困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The hot line had an important purpose: to prevent accidental war between the two competitors during the period known as the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

We were both wondering, you have this general purpose computer next to your ear why were you not able to make that sale?

我们都在想，你手边就有一台电脑,为什么你不能完成这次买卖？

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

The purpose was to see if the country's nineteen largest banks could survive losses in the event that the recession got even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Lincoln himself said his purpose was to provide "an open field and a fair chance in life."

VOA: special.2009.02.09

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

God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.

上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选