Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?

如果不是出于某种恶毒的目的，为什么把整村人囚禁起来？

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You can also install your functional tool of choice on the default agent and make a customized version for this purpose.

您也可以将所选的功能工具安装在默认代理上，为此用途生成一个自定义版本。

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A number of freelances, from actors to directors via set builders and publicity agents, come together with a common purpose: to make a movie, to tell a story on celluloid.

若干自由职业者，从演员到导演，通过制作商和经纪公司，因着制作电影和用电影的方式来讲述故事的共同目标让他们走到了一起。

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Clowns have a real purpose: to make people laugh.

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If the purpose of this program is to make a copy of the string.

如果这个程序的目的是拷贝那个字符串。

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) wants to demolish the lodge in Portishead to make way for a purpose built facility for a local crew.

BBC: Plans submitted for new lifeboat station in Portishead

There are many things the world came to admire about Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a shopkeeper whose sense of purpose to make a difference paved her way to the highest rungs of power in the United Kingdom, and the world.

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"My purpose was to make a statement in support of the Second Amendment, " she said before the vote, referring to the clause in the US Constitution that mentions the right of citizens "to keep and bear arms".

BBC: Maine town of Byron shoot down mandatory gun-ownership