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

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，

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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

And so you get to build your own special purpose programming language that helped you solve your problems in biology or finance or whatever,

你读过的类型都可以,所以你就可以让编程语言按照你的,特殊用途去解决你的生物学,财务或者任何类型的问题，

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

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

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

If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The purposeful is the purpose of the object in practical terms.

目的性“是从实际应用角度来说的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The purpose of a good law is to facilitate human agency in some ways.

一部好的法律应当是,为促进更好的权力而制定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The purpose here is to look at a series of processes in which temperature is held constant, and we're going to calculate how much work we get from allowing a gas to expand under various conditions.

目的是让大家了解一下,几个保持温度不变的过程，然后我们将计算,气体在不同膨胀过程中,的对外做功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I always regard one purpose of this class to help hapless Yale students in their dating strategies.

我一直都觉得一门课还有个目的,就是教耶鲁的倒霉蛋们怎么约会

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And its purpose in life is to maybe take input and maybe produce output.

它的唯一目的是可能是获得输入,可能是输出东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

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