The computer doesn't mimic human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means.

计算机模仿不了人类的思维；它通过不同的方式达到相同的目的。

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Market mechanisms are simply means, not ends in themselves.

市场机制是只是手段，本身不是目的。

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But America has done itself few favours and the best Mr Obama can do now is remind both sides of the strategic ends of their alliance and call for a rethink about the means.

但是美国却没有给自己留下余地，现在奥巴马能做的就是提醒双方关于联盟的战略目的并重新审视合作方法。

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President Assad noted that dialogue was the best means to end long-standing disputes with Tehran, arguing that any attempt to contain a country ends by strengthening it.

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Turning from means to ends, what about self-interest?

ECONOMIST: The benevolence of self-interest | The

It is nothing more than banker-speak in service of their own means to their profitable ends.

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They discussed at length different modalities, different outcomes, different means to get to the ends that Ben already has described -- and with an open door.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Jay Carney and Ben Rhodes