Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this daily exercise?

我记录事件和想法只是为了提醒自己，还是说这种日常练习有更大的目的？

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The main purpose of this is to make the package as light as it can be.

这样做的主要目的是为了让包尽可能的轻量级。

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Even shepherds and old country-folk, who are the deepest read in these arcana, have not a guess as to the means or purpose of this nightly resurrection.

即便是最精通这些奥秘的牧羊人和乡民们，也猜不透这种夜间复苏的方式或目的。

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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。

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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。

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Since just about everyone - and most especially President Bush - is keen to combat the spread of diseases like AIDS, packaging a global tax as a way greatly to increase the funds available for this purpose is as seductive as it is cynical.

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Fans of a nomination fight will point to this forced exit as the primary process living up to its purpose.

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The SEC's latest report clarified that disclosure of material nonpublic information on the personal social media site of an individual corporate officer without advance notice to investors that the site may be used for this purpose is unlikely to qualify as an acceptable method of disclosure under securities laws.

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