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

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

Let's flip back a step beyond that to Mycenaean civilization for the purpose of noting the great contrast, the great change.

让我们跳回到迈锡尼时代,比较看看两者间巨大的差异,也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.

你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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

They believed the South wanted to win Mexican territory for the purpose of spreading and strengthening slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Now ultimately, the purpose of investing in a share is to get the dividends; that's the whole named purpose of the corporation.

股票投资是为了取得股利,这也是公司明确的目标

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The purposeful is the purpose of the object in practical terms.

目的性“是从实际应用角度来说的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is money from wealthy individuals or investment companies for the purpose of building new businesses.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

We usually think of individual freedom and security as the purpose of the separation of power.

我们通常认为,个人自由与安全,是分权的目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The legal difference is that counterfeit drugs are made with the purpose of misleading people.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The purpose of the exercise is to make the following precise remark.

目的是为了得到下述正确的结论

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Finally,he said: "I suppose,General Grant, that the purpose of our meeting is fully understood.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We chose the name "American Mosaic" because the purpose of the show is to create a picture of life in the United States through many small stories.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

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

Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

Now let's think about the implicit purpose of educational institutions.

下面再来探究,教育体系的深层目标。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They do not know what the purpose of the cave was.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

After the war, the purpose of newspapers slowly changed.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

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 language is to communicate information.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The purpose of the awards was to give those high school students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

And part of the purpose of this story is to explain The origin of the observance of the Sabbath, the seventh day, as a holy day.

这个故事的部分要旨是,解释庆祝安息日的起源，第七天是圣日。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In a for-profit corporation, the purpose of the entity is defined as profit for the shareholders.

在一家盈利性公司中,公司的目的是为股东谋求利益

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选