In that sense it is an end to itself.

在某种意义上，它本身就是最终的目的。

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Even VCs who come from technical backgrounds, perhaps as CTOs or VPs of Engineering, don't really set about trying to efficiently allocate dollars towards research as an end to itself.

VC中有很多搞技术出身的，比如做过工程类企业技术总监、副总裁什么的。即使这些人也不会把有效分配研发资金作为最终目的。

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Technologies do exist to manufacture propylene as an end in itself, rather than as a by-product.

科技确实可以将丙烯自身当作最终产物而不是作为一种副产品来制造。

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Life for Hobbes is an exercise in continual willing and continual choosing that may be temporarily interrupted but can never come to an end except with the end of life itself.

霍布斯的生活就是一种长期意愿的实施,和长期选择，有可能会被暂时打断,但是永远不会结束,除非他自己想那样。

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While creating massive regulatory uncertainty for industry, neutrality's one certainty is giving an obsolete FCC lots to do, as an end in itself unrelated to consumer protection.

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That's why they have said China needs to switch from chasing high GDP growth as an end in itself to creating better-paying jobs that will lift incomes.

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Mr Joerres decided to stop pursuing growth as an end in itself and instead to seek higher margins.

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