The curtains are for purely decorative purposes and do not open or close.

那些窗帘纯粹用于装饰目的，不能开合。

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The North Atlantic Treaty begins with the affirmation that its parties "reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations."

《北大西洋公约》以公开肯定其成员“重申其对《联合国宪章》的目的以及原则的信念”开头。

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However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organizations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

然而，正如哈佛大学的艾米·埃德蒙森所指出的那样，越来越多的组织将“团队”用作动词而非名词，原因是他们往往为了一些特殊目的组建团队，之后迅速地又解散团队。

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The treaty also guarantees that Antarctica will continue to be used for peaceful purposes and will not become the object of international dispute.

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So the teachers can create the system which is multi-dementional in these purposes and take full advantage of the technology without jeopardizing all the different dimensions of learning.

所以，老师可以建立,多种传统目标融合教育,充分利用技术,而且不会损害,学习的不同方面。

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So but the diary is a way to get more sophisticated information on individuals for dietary counseling purposes and the like, but it's pretty labor intensive and then it requires either a computer to analyze the diet or some human being who is trained in this to sit down and make sense of the data.

日记这个办法,可获得更加精确的个体信息,用以进行饮食咨询等,但这更像是劳动密集型工作,然后还需要一台电脑,来分析食物数据,有些人学的就是,坐在电脑前弄明白这些数据

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Charles Maitland has been chairman of the General Purposes and Advisory Committee for four years.

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Clearwire said it will use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and working capital purposes.

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"Most of what people print now is for temporary read-and-discard purposes and for transactions, " said Shane.

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