It said the government must buy two million dollars' worth of silver each month for that purpose.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

And when you can write that down, for me, there is just tremendous sense of creativity and of purpose and meaning.

当你能把它写出来的时候，对我个人来说，会感到这种来自巨大的创造性,目的性，意义性的满足感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.

美国法律规定，如果你仅因为年龄原因辞退员工，

退休很神奇 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They believed the South wanted to win Mexican territory for the purpose of spreading and strengthening slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

That is to say, the arts of interpretation are used for the purpose of discovering, uncovering, and arriving at meaning.

也就是，语言被用于,探索，发现，事物真正的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is money from wealthy individuals or investment companies for the purpose of building new businesses.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

And he wants to emphasize Hanson himself has a farm that specializes in grapes for the purpose of producing raisins.

他想强调的是,汉森他自己拥有一片农庄,有着专门生产葡萄干的专家

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

There are all kinds of different boxes or the purpose for those boxes are different.

搜索框的功能不尽相同,因为这些搜索框的目的也不同。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"where persons were not brought to the United States at all, but were dumped in third countries for the purpose of torture."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

In a for-profit corporation, the purpose of the entity is defined as profit for the shareholders.

在一家盈利性公司中,公司的目的是为股东谋求利益

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For some,the scrutiny and publicizing of past intelligence operations serves no purpose but to aid America's enemies.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.

我想以介绍一位,一生致力于，传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地，这是关于他的一个故事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Clinton said a North Korean missile launch, for any purpose, would be a provocative act and a violation of U.N.Security Council resolution 1718 - approved after its 2006 nuclear test- demanding an end to Pyonyang's nuclear weapon and missile programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

When Hobbes uses the term "art" there, " "For by art is created," that term is deeply revealing of his purpose.

当霍布斯用“艺术“这个词，“是由艺术造成的,深刻地揭示了他的目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Michelle Obama said the purpose of the gathering was not only to pay tribute to luminaries in the struggle for equality, but also to what she called the"quiet heroes" who,in the process of shaping America, achieved extraordinary things.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The purpose of that dialogue, of that philosophical work, is to argue for the immortality of the soul.

该哲学著作中,所有对话的目的,是要论证灵魂不朽

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Julie says we can't put a number on human life for the purpose of a cost-benefit analysis.

朱莉认为，我们不该为了成本效益分析,给人的生命标价。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Nutrients get broken down into several classes and these are the constituents of food that your body uses for one purpose or another.

营养素这个问题需要花几节课来讨论,它们是食物的组成要素,供给身体吸收,支持身体机能运转

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We're just going to do it for the purpose of illustration.

它就是一个为了解释用的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They threw me up against the wall and checked me out, because I was a kid and I wanted to go there and see, just for the purpose of history, of being there.

他们把我推到墙上开始检查,因为我是个孩子而且我想去那看看,就是为了见证历史,亲身体验

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The main purpose of ethics, which is what I teach for Philosophy,

这门学科的主要目的，也就是我教课时的理念，

与哲学系教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You can adapt it for any sort of possible purpose, but the crucial thing is to keep the distinction between meaning and significance clear."

你可以为任何目的将其改编，但重要的是你必须,将意思和意义分清楚“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.

上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I'm sure they sold it in various forms, but one of the most popular was for this purpose.

我确信他们出售各种用途的橄榄油,但最普遍的还是作为清洁工具

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选