I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选