He made it his object in life to be a good doctor.

他把做一名好医生定为自己的人生目标。

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He made it his object in life to find the island.

他把找到那座岛屿当成自己的人生目标。

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Beginning with half-past six, he hovered like a shadow about the Thirty-ninth Street entrance, pretending always to be a hurrying pedestrian and yet fearful lest he should miss his object.

从6点半钟开始，他就像个影子似地在三十九街入口处的附近徘徊，总是假装成一个匆匆赶路的行人，可又生怕自己会漏掉要等的目标。

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He was surprised to see me and tried to hide a small object in his pocket.

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The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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Thus, this acknowledgment of the otherness of the other, which makes him the object of objective knowledge, involves the fundamental suspension of his claim to truth.

因此，承认他者的相异性，使之成为客观知识的对象，涉及到从根本上中止对知识的追求。

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Remember, ultimately, the United States fights short wars brilliantly and long wars poorly, and the enemy knows that, and therefore, his object here is to use the suicide bomber to protract the campaign, affect the will of the Iraqi people and preserve his force in being.

NPR: Scoring the War in Iraq: Who's Winning?

Glyn Roberts, Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association chief executive, said his members object to the location of the store.

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Which is doubtless his chief object.

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