No matter how the day is celebrated, the purpose of these celebrations is to help everyone understand the UN and the important roles it plays in world affairs.

无论如何庆祝这一天，这些庆祝活动的目的都是帮助每个人了解联合国及其在世界事务中发挥的重要作用。

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When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

当需要向前迈进的时候，他们会采取行动，并立即放弃那些有助于实现目标的事物。

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Most recognizable of the ship designs are the ship's smoke stacks, but the fourth stack was actually just artistic in nature and served no functional purpose.

烟囱是船舶最容易辨认的设计，但其实，第四个烟囱只有装饰美化作用，并没有任何的实际功能。

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They sometimes shout and move with no purpose or goal.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

I'm going to use the CS50 Library instead for user input I'm saying say something then I'd get a string from the user and I call time s1 and then I say, say something, s2 and then I get another string from the user and call it s2 and apparently this program's purpose in life is to tell me yes or no the user said the same thing both times.

然而我使用的是CS50库来获得用户输入,我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串,并把它叫做s1，然后我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串，并把它叫做2,这个程序的最终目的是,告诉我两次用户输入的是不是同样的东西。

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Once I finished the panel, I had no role and no purpose.

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According to a spokesman, they felt that in past years where they sat on the sidelines, it was because they had nothing new to announce and no real purpose to be in the game justifying the investment for one single day in February.

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