If living so unhappy, what is the purpose to own a house?

如果生活得那么的不开心，要房子又有何用呢？

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When creating a design I often find myself throwing out elements I don't need after I ask myself what is the purpose to this design element?

在进行一个设计的时候，我经常会发现我自己在使用一个元素后，立刻问自己一个问题这个设计元素的目的到底是什么，问过之后我发觉我不需要那个元素。

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One has to ask oneself what the purpose of the exercise is.

大家必须问一问自己，这个锻炼的目的是什么。

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Second explicate purpose for the education institutions is to allow students to practice and to apply what they've learnt.

第二个教育体系的,表面目标是,给学生实践的机会,让他们运用所学的知识。

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The centrality Aristotle ascribes to politics forces us to consider another question ? namely what is the purpose of this study?

亚里士多德加到政治中的,中心论点迫使我们考虑另一个问题,即这门研究的目的为何？

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So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

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While I agree that lemonade stands are beyond the scope of what is supposed to be the purpose of government regulation of the food industry.

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The reason is as elementary as it gets: The purpose of intelligence is to see what your enemy is trying to hide, to grasp how your enemy thinks, and how he cleverly camouflages what he thinks.

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The first question the FCC has to ask is what was the main purpose of splitting Ma Bell into the baby bells?

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