Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

" I have no purpose," he said, "either directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.20

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

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

VOA: special.2010.02.22

And the purpose of this course is to show you over and over and over again that starting with those one or two laws, you can deduce everything, and I would encourage you to think the same way.

这门课的目的,就是要反复告诉你们,从其中的一两条定律出发,你可以推导出一切,我鼓励你们用同样的方法来思考

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"In one of those speeches, I declared that I had no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But he also obviously writes that we are beings with will and purpose who are uniquely guided by opinions, ideas, and doctrines and it is in many ways the first business of the sovereign to act as a moral reformer of ideas.

但他同时也写道,我们是有意志和目标的生物,是唯一由言论，思想和各种学说，所引导的物种,而这正是给君主作为思想道德改造者,的存在提供了可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They sometimes shout and move with no purpose or goal.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

He takes blood from the slain General Kingu, The leader of Tiamat's army, the rebels, And he fashions a human being with the express purpose of freeing the gods from menial labor.

他取了被屠杀的将军Kingu的血液，他是Tiamat军队的将领，是反叛者，于是他创造了人，意图明确,不再劳烦众神做低贱的工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Major League Soccer came with a different purpose.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Some divers interfere with sharks on purpose.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

It is testimony to what can be achieved by a transatlantic community that acts with a clear sense of common purpose,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

With so much concern over the swine flu, it is hard to believe anyone would want to get it on purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Interest rate strategist Christian Carrillo with Societe Generale Securities calls the BOJ's decision weak and without purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

The Russian leader said the purpose of the negotiating process with Iran is to obtain clear guarantees about the transparency of its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Dancing in the streets of London. This is a two-step with a purpose.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

With a solar powered sail and using the sun and wind to power the batteries, the purpose of the mission is to show that renewable energy works.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10