请让我介绍一下今晚节目的第一位嘉宾…

May I introduce my first guest on the show tonight...

《牛津词典》

他们决定试探一下她对那个项目的兴趣。

They decided to sound out her interest in the project.

《牛津词典》

让我解释一下今天开会的目的。

Let me explain the purpose of today's meeting.

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The aim in this context, in this sense--the aim of all life is death.

在这种语境下，所有生命的目的就是死亡。

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One of the purposes of cell culture is to make many, many more cells under controlled conditions where I can understand what those cells are.

细胞培养的一个目的就是,在可控的环境下生成许许多多的细胞,从而让我能够研究这些细胞

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What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

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