A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

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

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

And when you can write that down, for me, there is just tremendous sense of creativity and of purpose and meaning.

当你能把它写出来的时候，对我个人来说，会感到这种来自巨大的创造性,目的性，意义性的满足感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He leads a big church in California and has sold millions of copies of books about "The Purpose Driven Life."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

That is to say, the arts of interpretation are used for the purpose of discovering, uncovering, and arriving at meaning.

也就是，语言被用于,探索，发现，事物真正的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He said he agreed generally with Mister Clay, that he thought Mister Clay's purpose was great and highly patriotic."

VOA: special.2009.03.26

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

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I want to just go over the requirements of the course that really are required, not the optional piece, just so that you understand what my purpose is pedagogically.

我只想跟大家回顾一下,这门课程的必须要求，并非可以自由选择的,这样你们会理解我的目的何在。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Let's flip back a step beyond that to Mycenaean civilization for the purpose of noting the great contrast, the great change.

让我们跳回到迈锡尼时代,比较看看两者间巨大的差异,也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

When Hobbes uses the term "art" there, " "For by art is created," that term is deeply revealing of his purpose.

当霍布斯用“艺术“这个词，“是由艺术造成的,深刻地揭示了他的目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

" I have no purpose," he said, "either directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery where it exists.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.

这个比喻的目的,是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子,带来的模糊和困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

We were both wondering, you have this general purpose computer next to your ear why were you not able to make that sale?

我们都在想，你手边就有一台电脑,为什么你不能完成这次买卖？

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Now, the purpose of this exercise is to give you a little bit of practice in figuring out what these quantities are.

就有这样的结论,这个练习的作用时让你们理解,这些物理量是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

There are all kinds of different boxes or the purpose for those boxes are different.

搜索框的功能不尽相同,因为这些搜索框的目的也不同。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

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