"They're a small group and their purpose is to show their own strength against the general society which they feel is a mockery of Jewish identity or a mockery of what a Jewish society should be.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Not all of the novels aspire to or have as their purpose that kind of difficulty that sometimes English majors really want.

不是所有的小说都希望或者拥有,英语主修生想到的那种难度。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That is to say their end, their purpose.

即他们的目标，目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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

They also worked on a platform -- a statement of their party's purpose.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Ghana's land tenure system permits owners to lease their land to investors for any purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选