"On this day,we gather because we have chosen hope over fear,unity of purpose over conflict and discord,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

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

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He leads a big church in California and has sold millions of copies of books about "The Purpose Driven Life."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

So in this context, the river of oblivion serves an obvious purpose in the context we have here in Book Two.

故在这部分文本中，遗忘之河便是为了遗忘而存在的,在第二册书正是这样体现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The purpose of immediate treatment is to cool the victim as quickly as possible to stop the body temperature from increasing.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

This is how we address that purpose of education to give students an opportunity to apply in practice what they have learnt.

借此，我们确立了,教育的目标之一,即给学生机会,将所学知识用于实践。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

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

He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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 the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.

你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Now ultimately, the purpose of investing in a share is to get the dividends; that's the whole named purpose of the corporation.

股票投资是为了取得股利,这也是公司明确的目标

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

It is a knowledge of how to act where the purpose of action is acting well.

这是一种如何表现,将动作目的完整诠译的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Now let's think about the implicit purpose of educational institutions.

下面再来探究,教育体系的深层目标。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.

这个比喻的目的,是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子,带来的模糊和困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.02.26

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now, as I mentioned, the official purpose of the tract is the political subject of licensing.

现在，就像我提到的，宣传小册子最正式的目的就是支持出版许可这个政治主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选