If you copied everything your parents did even if it didn't make sense, you developed a willingness to assume that actions have some "unknown" purpose.

如果你模仿父母的任何行为(即使那些无意义的行为)，你会愿意假定有些行为是基于未知的目的。

youdao

But he did not take his eye off the purpose of the factories: to make a profit.

但是他并没有忽视企业的宗旨：那就是赚取利润。

youdao

They are all interesting, but the author did not write them to a single purpose, and the book is more in the style of the Perl Cookbook than most other Perl books.

虽然这些文章都非常有趣，但是作者并没有出于一个单一目的来编写这些文章，因此这本书的风格比其他Perl书籍更类似于The Perl Cookbook。

youdao

"I was saying to Eboue that it was a red card because he did it on purpose - but he denied that, " stated Kalou.

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If Cell did eventually break out of these specialist applications and into general-purpose computers, Intel would have every right to be paranoid.

ECONOMIST: Computing

"Instead, we wanted third parties to verify that people did not approve of the collection and use of information from their accounts on Facebook and other services for inclusion in Google Social Circles -- just as Facebook did not approve of use or collection for this purpose, " the company said.

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