One has to ask oneself what the purpose of the exercise is.

大家必须问一问自己，这个锻炼的目的是什么。

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The object of the exercise is to raise money for the charity.

此项活动的目的是为慈善筹款。

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The aim of the exercise is to find out who said what about this article.

这个练习的目的是找到谁对这篇文章作了什么评价。

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We will tell why exercise is important, and some of the popular ways to get in shape.

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The purpose of the exercise is to make the following precise remark.

目的是为了得到下述正确的结论

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What I'd like to at last introduce to you is the exercise that we are going to be doing together.

最后我要向你们说明的,是大家要一起,做的练习。

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"The object of the exercise is to stimulate people to create jobs in the private sector".

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The success of the exercise is reflected by the destinations of now-defunct Securum's employees.

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One impression from the exercise is the difficulty of introducing industrial-world values into industrialising-world plants.

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