他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。

He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.

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需求是一种达到目的的方式。

Requirements are a means to an end.

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在此情况下，应采用能达到目的的新属性。

In that case, you can come up with a new property that serves your purpose.

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And will make mistakes. And therefore, you write your programs so that catastrophes don't occur when those mistakes are made.

就是人是很愚蠢的，会犯错误的，因此，你要这样设计你的程序,以达到当犯错误时避免大事故的目的。

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Her aim is to get along in a world that is dominated by shifting forces that can be registered and reacted to by poetry, but not explained.

她的目的是通过诗歌所能记录，达到却不能解释的,变幻莫测的力量,来和被统治的世界相处。

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Well I ought to be able to do that by simply generalizing the loop. And that's what the next piece of code on your a hand out shows you.

好的通过生成这个循环,我应该能够达到目的,这也是你们的讲义中下一段代码。

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