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Just set up, you know, what was the purpose of what you were doing—to try to understand the climate variability of this area—and what you did, and what your approach was.

你懂的，你要为所做的事设定一个目标——也就是了解这个地区的气候变化——还要清楚你做了什么，以及你的方法是什么。

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Penfriend Society has been set up for the purpose of promoting friendship.

建立笔友会是为了促进友谊。

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Does the Prime Minister not understand that the purpose of an inquiry is not just to produce a set of conclusions, but to allow the people of Britain to come to terms with a mistake made in their name,"

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This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

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The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

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In his new book Grow, Jim Stengel profiles the characteristics of companies whose long-term success has been based on their commitment to a purpose and set of ideals beyond making money.

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Their real purpose is to set down clear guidelines about what is acceptable and what is not.

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She argues that employers are not considering graduates on purpose and has set up a Facebook group, called Against Graduate Discrimination, to help others in the same boat.

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