"For Pete's sake," said average Joe.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

And I am able to vary the voltage on the plates making this for argument's sake negative and this for argument's sake positive.

我可以改变两个板子上的电压,为了论证，这个是负电,这个是正电。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And for time's sake, I'm not going to bother changing the name all of the time, at least for now.

由于时间的原因，我不会总是,去改变这个文件名字，至少现在不会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

On the 2041 website he writes: "For the future's sake we can get this right.And we must."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

I think also what we're trying to build was not just this for America's sake, but I do think that we have the potential of offering an example, of how to do this well.

我还认为我们正在努力建造的,不只是为了美国，我真的认为我们有潜力,做好这件事，树立榜样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We're not interested in talking for talking's sake." "We're looking to see through an early meeting, should Iran be willing, we'd be looking to see if they are willing to engage seriously on these issues but within the context of the P5+1 the full range of issues that we have among these countries and Iran."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

In other words, art for art's sake. That's Eliot's autotelic poem.

为了艺术而艺术，那就是艾略特目的存在于本身的诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"So the government must change its mind, that is the government must dissolve the parliament as soon as possible - let's for the sake of the government, but for my side we still have the government dissolve the parliament within 15 days."

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Hesiod is not alone in saying, for God's sake try not to take a voyage at sea because your chances of coming back are really bad, which was a reality to a degree.

赫西奥德不是唯一一个说,看在上帝的份上不要试图在海上航行,因为你几乎不可能返航,在某种程度上这是实话

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The simple city is little more than a combination of households designed for the sake of securing one's existence.

简约之城,大概等同一些家庭的集合,是为着确保其人生活而设计。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Let's assume, for sake of argument, the thing I'm looking for is bigger than this. In that case, I'm going to throw away all of this, I'm going to hit that bottom line of that code.

让我们假定不是，假定要找的元素,比这个大，在这样的情况下，这些都擦掉，我要运行到代码的最后一行。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Although here, it's as if the government is electing by conscription certain citizens to go die for the sake of the whole.

尽管目前，好像是政府,在通过征兵制选择特定的公民,为了全体利益而死。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Let's just suppose that,for the sake of avoiding those complications, that when my body dies,it gets destroyed.

为了避免这些难题，然我们假设，当我的肉体死亡，它就被破坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I did not just introduce whether it's in the readings or in the lectures ideas just because they are interesting for the sake of the idea.

无论是论文还是讲座，我不会因为,某个理论有趣而去介绍它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It's how you can initialize a variable to like zero for counting's sake or something like that.

你可以初始化一个变量，像0用来,计数的或者诸如此类的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Just for sake of argument, we'll assume it's about there, and I do the same thing.

为了方便起见,我们假定就在这里，重复之前做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Last time we used printf generally to print a static string, like a hardcoded string, like "David," just for example's sake.

上次我们通常用“printf“,来打印一个静态的字符串，像硬编码的字符串“David“,这只是个例子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So you can scroll back through your history, which is also useful for time's sake.

所以我们可以滚回到我们的历史记录，这个可以节约我们的时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Is this value what I'm looking for? Again, for sake of argument, let's assume it's not.

这是我们要找的值么？,再一次，为了方便起见。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You've got to ask yourself, ? "What's worth having for its own sake?

你们必须问自己，“什么是因其自身品质而值得拥有？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's just different for the sake of being different.

只是为了与众不同罢了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Now I look at that element. Is it the thing I'm looking for? If I'm really lucky, it is. If not, I look at the value of that point here and the thing I'm looking for. And for sake of argument let's assume that the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the value here.

现在我们瞧瞧指向的元素,它是我们找的值么？如果足够幸运，他就是，如果不是,我们比较指向的元素,同我们要找的元素，方便起见,假设要找的元素比这里的值要小。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But let's grant that assumption for the sake of argument.

但为了讨论，我们还是先认同这个假设。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe more by now. But let's, for the sake of argument, ten billion pages.

可能更多了，但是让我们想想，一百亿个网页。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In the first place, they are young aristocrats, and Glaucon's desire to hear justice praised for its own sake indicates something about his scale of values.

首先，他们是年轻贵族，而，Glaucon，想听到,正义自我礼赞的愿望,点出他的价值格局。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选