Efforts to reduce transaction costs, only for them to achieve the means to an end.
努力降低交易费用，只是他们为达至这一目的的手段。
He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.
他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。
But if we stop to think about it, most of us recognise that material and financial wealth are just a means to an end, not the end in themselves.
但是，如果我们停下来反思一下，我们中的绝大部分人都承认物质享受和金融财富仅是达到目的的手段，而不是要在财富中终结。
If you concentrate on the task but still do not enjoy it, that means that you probably see the task as a means to an end rather than the process.
如果你专注于它，但还是不能发现它的乐趣，那么意味着你很有可能只在意这件事的结果而不是整个过程。
When I take that attitude, the writing itself is just a necessary means to an end.
当我抱持那种态度时，写作本身不过是达到目的的一种途径。
But there is little cause for taking the growth of GNP to be an end in itself, rather than seeing it as an important means for achieving things we value.
但是没有理由将GNP增长本身作为最终目标，而应该把它作为一种重要的手段，来完成我们所重视的事业。
We sometimes find it useful to break down the vision into smaller goals - means to an end - which can always be tracked back to that bigger vision.
有时我们发现，将愿景分割成一些小的目标很有用，它们定义了一个终点，而且总是可以回溯到大的愿景。
It's important to remember that this status-related information is always a means to an end, where the end is the development, testing, and release of software products to generate revenue.
需要记住的很重要的一点是，这些和状态相关的信息是达到最终目的的一种方法，而最终是指完成能够产生利润回报的软件产品的开发、测试和发布。
First and foremost, remember that as software test engineers, the tools you build are means to an end.
首先也是最重要的是：要记住，作为软件测试工程师，你创建的工具是通往一个终点的路。
They are a means to an end, the end being the creation of a rich and strong nation.
它们只是实现最终目标的一种手段，即建立一个富裕的强国。
Above all, the West must make plain to Mr Putin that Russia's invasion of Georgia means an end to business as usual, even if it continues to work with him on issues such as Iran.
总的来说，西方一定要让普京知道俄罗斯对格鲁吉亚的侵略意味着其不得不换一种方式与俄罗斯打交道，尽管在伊朗问题上将继续与之合作。
Be careful, though, to keep efficiency in its place. Don't let it become an end in itself - just a means of supporting the rest of your life.
然而，要小心地让效率保持在它原有的位置，不要为了效率而效率。它只是你生活的一种手段。
When I ask people what makes them happy at work, they rarely talk about the work itself - many tend to see it as a means to an end, rather than as something to enjoy.
当我问他们是什么使他们工作时感到快乐，他们很少谈论工作本身—很多人是为了工作而工作，而不是享受工作。
Everyone strives for some means to an end, yet most of us play it just safe enough to the point where we never exactly have the opportunity to snag the whole pot of gold.
每个人都会想尽办法让自己成功，中肯的说他们只是想让自己活在稳定中，但却从未真正地去抓住去获得整坛金子的机会。
Even if we don't end up with an economic downturn, slower growth means unemployment will stay higher for longer — which will make it hard to tell the difference.
即便最终经济不会下滑，缓慢的经济增长速度将意味着今后很长时间内失业率将高居不下——因此这跟经济下滑没有本质的区别。
But when we base our happiness on achievement, we've joined the cult of productivity. Being productive is no longer a means to an end.
但是，当我们把我们的快乐建立在成就上，我们就会对大量做事有着狂热的追求。
When the computer was just a screen, keyboard and mouse, it remained, for all its usefulness, a tool. A means to an end.
在电脑只是显示屏、键盘和鼠标的时候，虽然非常有用，但只是一个工具。
It would seem like the path is only a means to an end, a route to reach the goal.
‘路’(途径)看起来不过就是通向终点的方式，达到目标的旅程。
The fuzzy-headed animals are just a means to an end, an excuse and a pretext to tramp through a pristine rain forest where the air is cool, the sun warm and the rivers Evian-clear.
这个有着毛绒绒的头的可爱动物仅仅是我们来到原始森林的借口。这里空气清新，阳光温暖，河水清澈见底。
A higher number means that an attempt to match the regex starting at the end of the previous match is done until all matches specified are found. Only the last match is returned.
更高的数字意味着在以前匹配结束后开始尝试匹配regex的操作将一直持续到发现所有指定的匹配，然后仅返回最后的匹配项。
DS: Software Group's notion of the enterprise service bus is that it's not an end in itself, but a means to an end — a way to craft looser coupling between self-defining interfaces.
DS： IBM软件集团的企业服务总线的概念是，它本身不是终点，而是到达终点的方法——一种制定自定义接口间更松散耦合的途径。
The official line is that we use Linux as a means to an end; STD is about security tools and not Linux, although we are all avid Linux fans.
实际的情况是我们使用Linux作为实现最终目的的一种手段；std是关于安全性工具的一套方案，而不是一个Linux，尽管我们有很多Linux的爱好者。
Allen said: "If you use too much [carbon] this year, it doesn't mean the planet will come to an end. It means you have to work even harder the next year."
阿伦说：“如果你今年烧了很多‘碳’，并不是说地球就完了，只不过明年你得加倍努力才能降低今年的影响。”
I wanted to represent [Asperger's] well and I wanted it to be accurate, but it was sort of a means to an end, "Mayer explained in an interview after the screening."
“我想(把艾斯·伯格患者)描绘的又好又准确，但是它有很多方法结局，”Mayer在放映后的采访中解释道。
The end result is broader exposure for your Web content, and that means more visitors and, most likely, an increase to your bottom line.
其结果是您的Web内容所能触及到的范围将更为广泛，而这也就意味着网站将会有更多访客，并且很有可能您公司的盈利状况还会得到改善。
Pleasure is the final cause of beauty and thus is not a means to another end, but an end in itself.
高兴的是最后的美容事业，因此不是一个手段，另一个目的，但其本身的目的。
Pleasure is the final cause of beauty and thus is not a means to another end, but an end in itself.
高兴的是最后的美容事业，因此不是一个手段，另一个目的，但其本身的目的。
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