我想每笔生意的目的都是赚钱。

I think every business's goal is to make money.

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该文中的图表只用于说明的目的。

The charts in this article are for illustrative purposes only.

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他的目的是当总统。

His aim was to become president.

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And will make mistakes. And therefore, you write your programs so that catastrophes don't occur when those mistakes are made.

就是人是很愚蠢的，会犯错误的，因此，你要这样设计你的程序,以达到当犯错误时避免大事故的目的。

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RAM is this memory recall or, as you'll soon find in problems Set One, that's used for ephemeral purposes.

内存是随机存储器，你们将,在习题集1中发现，它们用来短暂存储的目的。

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And I think it's possible to see that one of the purposes of this poem is precisely to correct that situation.

我们可以看到他这首诗歌的目的之一,就是去改变现状。

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