In the ideal world, we're all doing work that we're proud of and that provides meaning and purpose to us.
在理想世界里，我们都做着引以为荣的工作，并且这份工作能给予我们生活的意义和目的。
"Inutile loveliness" is kind of the keyword of Nabokov's technique, and he says that the novel has its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss.
“无用的可爱”是纳巴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。
I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre.
简·爱，我是特意来找你的。
I wasn't doing anything on purpose to make myself better.
我没有有意识地做一些事来让自己变得更好。
The decision is part of the city's purpose to become plastic waste-free by 2020.
这是该市为在2020年前实现无塑料垃圾目标而做出的决定。
But she does this, she explains, because "there is no purpose to a memoir, if it isn't honest."
但她自己解释，之所以这么做，是因为“如果不诚实，一本回忆录就没有意义。”
They will quietly perform technological and scientific miracles, as long as it serves their purpose to do so.
只要满足了他们的需要，他们会默默地完成科学技术的奇迹。
They keep us connected to the world and other pet lovers, and offer a purpose to get out of bed in the morning.
宠物把我们与外面的世界和其他一些宠物爱好者连结起来，这样，让我们拥有了每天早起的动力并决绝的按时早起。
Bitterly I thought in my mind that the storm came on purpose to spoil my happiness; all its malice was against me.
我心里难过地想：这风暴是故意来破坏我的快乐的，它的一切恶意都是对着我的。
Our idea of a good app, for a medical application like this, is one that really serves the purpose to help diabetics.
我们所定义的一个有用的程序，一个有效的医疗方面的应用程序，是能够帮助糖尿病人的。
It helps that they tend to have a clear purpose to which these underpaid employees and volunteers are often personally committed.
他们常常有个清晰地目标，为了这个目标，这些低薪的工作人员及志愿者们经常亲自实践。
It serves no purpose to establish a controlled organization of materials if that organization doesn't make sense to your users.
如果资料的组织方式对您的用户没有意义，那么建立受控的资料组织方式将没有任何用处。
That may be why subsequent efforts to transfer the same fixity of purpose to broader spheres of peacetime endeavour have fallen short.
这或许就是为什么用同样的目标来探索更广阔空间的后续努力在和平时期打折扣的原因。
In that society, as in virtually all others, pots quickly went beyond their functional purpose to become objects of desire and display.
在那个社会里，几乎像其他社会一样，陶器很快就超越了其最初的功能性价值，变成一种人类爱好与展示的物品。
When creating a design I often find myself throwing out elements I don't need after I ask myself what is the purpose to this design element?
在进行一个设计的时候，我经常会发现我自己在使用一个元素后，立刻问自己一个问题这个设计元素的目的到底是什么，问过之后我发觉我不需要那个元素。
The scientists believe the elk was selected and killed on purpose to make the object, which may have served a role in rituals for many years.
科学家们认为这根鹿角是为了制作工艺品而被选择并猎捕的，可能是延续数年的仪式中的一部分。
But although the old woman pretended to be friendly, she was a wicked witch, who had her house built of gingerbread on purpose to entrap children.
虽然这个老妇人伪装的非常友好，但是她是一个邪恶的巫婆，用姜饼建造了她的房子用来是诱骗小孩子。
But if we see a true value and purpose to it, as a minimalist, the price is worth it, because being a minimalist is not always going for the cheapest option.
但是，作为极简主义者，当看到它真正的价值和自身的目的时，会觉得这价格很值，因为极简主义者不是总挑最便宜的。
We make these panting, grunting, snorting noises when we are trying on purpose to laugh, usually for a social purpose, such as to ease conversation or make friends.
当我们有目的地努力笑出来时，就会发出喘息、咕哝、吸气的杂音，这通常是出于社交目的，比如缓和谈话气氛，或交朋友。
Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch on Monday, selling with a clear purpose—to improve your fitness—and promoting it as a "tool, not a toy".
以 Fitbit为例，该公司在周一发布了其第一款智能手表，它的销售目标很明确——提高你的健康水平，并将其宣传为“工具，而不是玩具”。
Sometimes though people will violate maxims for another purpose: to deceive.
尽管有时人们会为了另一个目的而违背准则：这个目的就是欺骗。
Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate a free fall.
无论如何，所有这些复杂的措施都有相同的心理目的：让人们相信自由落体运动将会停止，从而抑制人们对自由落体运动持续下去的恐惧。
The occasion was a stunt, of course, but had a serious purpose: to show that even the poorest places can mitigate poverty and hunger.
这当然只是噱头，不过也确有目的：向世界展示，即使最穷的国家也能缓解贫困与饥饿。
A smart system administrator USES software RAID for a specific purpose — to improve the reliability of an already very reliable server.
精明的系统管理员会将RAID用于一种特定的目的—即提高已经相当可靠的服务器的可靠性。
"This ship was most likely sunk for the same purpose, to retain land, to create new land," she said.
“这船舶最有可能是为同一目的沉放在那里，以保持土地，构建新土地”，她说。
Now some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose: to win arguments.
如今一些研究人员却告诉我们，推理具有完全不同的目的——赢得争论。
A number of freelances, from actors to directors via set builders and publicity agents, come together with a common purpose: to make a movie, to tell a story on celluloid.
若干自由职业者，从演员到导演，通过制作商和经纪公司，因着制作电影和用电影的方式来讲述故事的共同目标让他们走到了一起。
The stakeholder goals document has one fundamental purpose: to express what various stakeholders need in business terms as opposed to technical terms.
涉众的目标文档有一个根本的目的：从业务方面而非技术方面，表达各种涉众对于业务的需求。
The stakeholder goals document has one fundamental purpose: to express what various stakeholders need in business terms as opposed to technical terms.
涉众的目标文档有一个根本的目的：从业务方面而非技术方面，表达各种涉众对于业务的需求。
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