Historians say that by writing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln established a moral purpose for the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

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

Let's flip back a step beyond that to Mycenaean civilization for the purpose of noting the great contrast, the great change.

让我们跳回到迈锡尼时代,比较看看两者间巨大的差异,也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.05.01

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"The bill subjects our security assistance to a certification that the Pakistani government is using the money for its intended purpose, namely to combat the Taliban and al-Qaida,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

And so that's the part of the brain that's the key part of a body for the purpose of personal identity.

所以大脑,这个身体最关键的部位,就是人格统一性的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The company currently uses natural gas for that purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

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 are awarding President Obama for his extraordinary efforts in order to strengthen dialogue in the world, to resolve conflicts by negotiations and through the international bodies that we have for that purpose,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

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

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

For our purpose just these are the kinds of changes that can happen.

我们的目的仅仅是,知道会产生一些变化就可以了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Let me just review the preceding lecture briefly for that purpose.

为了引入今天的课题,先简要回顾下上节课内容

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

对亚里士多德而言,政治科学的论点与目的,是要调解形成派系的起因,避免派系形成，因那会导致革新与内战。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

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

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