With so much concern over the swine flu, it is hard to believe anyone would want to get it on purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

This is on purpose, because one of the things I hope you have learned to do this semester, is look up things you don't know, and figure out what they do. What they mean.

我举这个程序是有目的的，因为我希望你们这续期能学到,如何去查找你不知道的东西并，且弄懂它,们是干什么的，是什么意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

(SPEAKING) This divide,says Ben, is exacerbated on purpose by politicians who play political games.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

It has its own purpose, which is not a purpose that has any bearing necessarily on anything else.

事物自己存在的目的,与其它无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.24

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

They also worked on a platform -- a statement of their party's purpose.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

6% It is over 16% and on the purpose and basis what do we spend?

超过了%,那么具体来说,我们到底花了多少钱？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The purpose of these exercises is to save lives in the future, when Marines are sent out on real missions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"From the beginning of the program, there was only one focused and all-important purpose: we sought and we obtained specific information on terrorist plans,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

And that is the whole point of the exercise." Since Africa Command was established last year, critics have argued the purpose of the command is to militarize American foreign policy on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20