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

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In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.

美国法律规定，如果你仅因为年龄原因辞退员工，

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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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