So in this context, the river of oblivion serves an obvious purpose in the context we have here in Book Two.

故在这部分文本中，遗忘之河便是为了遗忘而存在的,在第二册书正是这样体现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We will revert, as others revert to Lycidas, to Tony the Tow Truck for the purpose of introducing questions of applied theory.

到时候，我们再来分析《拖运车托尼》,为了介绍应用理论的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.

上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Julie says we can't put a number on human life for the purpose of a cost-benefit analysis.

朱莉认为，我们不该为了成本效益分析,给人的生命标价。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

6% It is over 16% and on the purpose and basis what do we spend?

超过了%,那么具体来说,我们到底花了多少钱？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And the third explicate purpose, I think we probably all agree with, is that school environment creates a situation where students can learn together, where they can learn from each other, so it creates a community of learners.

我想第三个表面目标，大家可能都会赞同，就是学校,为学生营造了一个，共同相互学习的场所，即创造了学习者共同体。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The purpose here is to look at a series of processes in which temperature is held constant, and we're going to calculate how much work we get from allowing a gas to expand under various conditions.

目的是让大家了解一下,几个保持温度不变的过程，然后我们将计算,气体在不同膨胀过程中,的对外做功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now again we're not-- the purpose of this class isn't to have you improve your diet, if that happens that's fine, but that's not the purpose of the class.

现在再次重申,本门课的目的不是改进你的饮食,如果你的饮食因此改善,那很好,但是这不是本门课的目的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We're just going to do it for the purpose of illustration.

它就是一个为了解释用的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So in formalist terms, that's the way we have to understand what, if we weren't formalists, we would suppose, as I say, to be a mnemotechnical device for the purpose of communicating something about the weather in Spain. Right?

形式主义者会这样理解，但如果我们不是形式主义者，我们就会认为这个重复单纯是为了,记住西班牙的天气，对吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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