许多人说，订婚期的目的是为了腾出足够的时间来策划婚礼。

Many people say the purpose of the engagement period is to permit enough time to plan the wedding.

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联阿援助团说，酷刑的目的是获取信息和口供，在阿富汗的刑事审判中，信息和口供往往是唯一的证据。

UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are often the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials.

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他坚持说这笔钱是出于国际目的而捐助的。

He has maintained that the money was donated for international purposes.

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You say, "Whoa, what is this?" Kant makes a distinction between the purposive and the purposeful. What is the distinction?

我咧个去，这货说的是啥？，其实康德将,“合目的性“和“目的性“做了比较，什么比较呢？

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That is why this says atomic number, but for most intents and purposes we can say this could be atomic mass.

那就是为什么这里说原子序数，但如果没有意图和目的,我们就说是原子质量。

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Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

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