purpose
美 [ˈpɜrpəs] 
英 [ˈpɜː(r)pəs]
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复数：purposes 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | [c] 意图；目的；用途；目标the intention, aim or function of sth; the thing that sth is supposed to achieve |
| Our campaign's main purpose is to raise money. 我们这次活动的主要目的就是募款。 |
| The purpose of the book is to provide a complete guide to the university. 本书旨在全面介绍这所大学。 |
| A meeting was called for the purpose of appointing a new treasurer. 为任命新财务主管而召开了一次会议。 |
| The experiments serve no useful purpose(= are not useful) . 这些实验毫无用处。 |
| The building is used for religious purposes. 这座建筑是用于宗教活动的。 |
2. | [pl] 情势的需要what is needed in a particular situation |
| These gifts count as income for tax purposes. 这些礼物应属于纳税的收入。 |
| For the purposes of this study, the three groups have been combined. 为了这项研究工作，三个小组业已合并。 |
3. | [c][u] 重要意义；有价值的意义meaning that is important and valuable to you |
| Volunteer work gives her life (a sense of) purpose . 做志愿工作使她的生活有了意义。 |
4. | [u] 意志；毅力；决心the ability to plan sth and work successfully to achieve it |
| He has enormous confidence and strength of purpose . 他信心十足，意志坚强。 |
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例句
Since they are discussing the business all the time, they do not feel the need to stop and set a weekly meeting for that purpose.
因为他们一直从未间断地讨论业务，所以根本没有要暂停或举行周例会讨论的想法。
[with modifier]a building, especially part of a complex, used for a particular purpose.
（尤指建筑群中作特定用途的）房，楼
I use ING Direct for that purpose - they're my primary bank, but they let you set up multiple savings accounts with just a few clicks.
我使用INGDirect，他们是我最基本的储蓄所，不过只需鼠标点击几下，就能建立多种储蓄存款账户。
[The] purpose of [my] talk today really is is to sort of indelibly scar your minds with these charismatic and majestic creatures.
我今天的演讲实际上是想要用这些魅力十足而威严的生物在你们的脑海中留下一个永久的印记。
Find ways to inject new life into your relationship via activities that have no purpose other than to say, "You matter. "
做些什么为你们的关系注入新的活力，不为别的，只为告诉对方“我在乎你。”
Answer: The purpose of the non-IP heartbeat link is often misunderstood.
非IP检测链路的用途常常被误解。
The main purpose of any report is to provide the information needed for decisions to be made and action taken.
所有的报告的主要目的是提供给信息需求要做的决定和有效的行动。
"Absent a car manufacturing business, the dealerships would not seem to serve any purpose for the debtor, " Gonzalez said.
“缺席的汽车制造企业，经销商似乎没有起任何作用的债务人，”冈萨雷斯说。
He said the U. N. Charter allowed military action for the purpose of self defense.
他说，联合国会认可美国国防部的自卫军事行动。
Hence the issue is no longer what forum should be used for negotiations but what their purpose is to be.
因此，问题不再是论坛应当用于谈判，但他们的目的是什么的人。
The master of prose is not cold, but will not let any word or image inflame him with a heat irrelevant to his purpose.
散文大家并不冷漠，但也不会因头脑发热，让任意与其目的无关的词汇或形象扰乱自己。
I'm beginning to see that I have been made for a very special purpose.
我开始明白，造物主为我创设了一个特定的目标。
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it.
每个人一旦到了明了金钱用途的年纪，就会开始希望有钱。
Searching for a collision on purpose amounts to a brute-force attack, and is usually fairly difficult.
对冲突的故意搜索意味著蛮力攻击，这通常很难。
He goes on to claim that the purpose of his alleged abduction was to discredit Iran and its nuclear program.
接着他声称，绑架他的目的是为了诋毁伊朗以及其核项目。
Adidas said the purpose of the stores was to increase sales and capture customer data.
Adidas提到，目的是提高商店的销售，并获取消费者的数据。
If you select this option, you can then choose how much memory to use for this purpose.
如果选择该选项，则您可以选择用于此目的的内存大小。
if you stick with every principle, you can do nothing. but life goes on. we have to choose. once you decide, stick with your purpose.
如果你坚持每一个原则，你什么也做不了，但生活还在继续。我们必须选择，一旦你学则，坚持你的目标吧。
This money can be used to help purchase a home, fund a child's education, add to retirement income, or for any other purpose.
这些资金可以用来购买房屋，投资孩子的教育，增加到退休收入中或者用于其他用途。
He felt as if he was surrounded by men of a different mind and purpose.
他感到自己似乎被一群不同想法和目的的人包围着。
The chapters following are dedicated to that purpose.
后述各章旨在对此作出贡献。
This book has a very specific purpose.
这本书的目的是很明确的。
A thermostatic bath is used for this purpose.
为此目的，使用恒温浴。
The main purpose of industry is to create wealth.
工业的主要宗旨是创造财富。
The purpose of his life is fulfilled.
他生命的目的达到了。
Neither is it necessary, for the purpose in hand, that exceptions should not exist.
就我们当前的目的而言，也没有必要排斥例外的存在。
A lot of people say that they live for no purpose.
许多人说他们的生活缺乏目标。
Our purpose here is simply to learn the use of these versatile components.
我们现在的目的只是学会使用这些多用途的元件。
The purpose of his visit, as he emphasized, was to discuss how Italy could take the field against Germany.
正如他所强调的，他的来访目的，本是讨论意大利怎样才能兴师反抗德国。
You know I don't go away from home often, and I came up here on purpose to tell you this.
你知道我不常离开家，这次来，就是要向你说明这一点。
I can spare two hundred a year for a grand purpose like this.
为了这样一个伟大的目标，我可以一年捐助两百镑。
A stake used for this purpose was the earliest type of sundial and was called a gnomon.
这种特定的标杆就是最早的一种日晷仪，人们称之为日晷仪标杆。
He gave no advance indication-not even to me-as to the purpose of this extraordinary gathering.
对这次非常会议的目的，他事先未作任何透露--甚至对我也未透露。
Senator Keating was peddling someone's rumors for some purpose of his own, despite the highly dangerous international situation.
参议员基廷不顾十分危险的国际局势，为着他个人的某种目的而在散布某人的谣言。
The purpose of map interpretation is to determine the temporal and spatial relationships among the different rocks.
对地图判读目的在于确定不同岩石的时间空间关系。
I was deliberately trying to annoy him. ; I got him angry on purpose.
我故意气他一下。
Its purpose was to provide potential customers with a source of unbiased information as to the features and specification available.
其目的是向潜在客户提供关于仪器特性和规格的公正的情报。
The main purpose is to escape from traditional musical sonorities into a new world of tonal experience.
主要的目的是要逃脱传统的音乐声响，进入一个崭新的音调实践的世界。
Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday.
他这样拿定了主意，于是星期六一整天简直没有跟他说上十句话。
Othello entered the chamber, full of the black purpose which he had meditated of putting his lady to death.
这时奥瑟罗怀着要把他的夫人害死的凶恶念头走进屋里来了。
He was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
他是一个善于写文章的老手，他不会不知道，只有引起读者“兴味”的文章才更容易达到目的。
Primary purpose is to correlate regularities: for a limited range of experimental date.
主要目的是对有限范围内的实验数据总结出规律来。
It was a night out of ten thousand for my purpose.
对于实现我的计划来说，这一夜真是千载难逢。
The major purpose of keeping these records is to inform governmental authorities of the international position of the country.
保持这些记录的主要目的，是向政府当局汇报该国的国际地位。
The purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security.
联合国的宗旨是维护国际和平与安全。
Day and night he must have one single thought, one single purpose: merciless destruction.
无论白天黑夜他必须只有一个思想，一个目的；无情的破坏。
The purpose of IP logging is to determine the depth and geometry of the polarizable bodies.
IP测井的目的在于确定极压体的深度和形状。
Its purpose is to provide a current supplement to other existing reports and reviews.
其目的是对其他已有的报告和综述提供新的补充。
They also had a heart large enough to think about others, to dedicate themselves to a higher purpose.
他们也有心系他人的慈心，为了更高的目标勇于献身。
If you joke with him he'll think you are insulting him on purpose.
如果你同他开玩笑，他会认为你有意侮辱他。
Massacre seems to be the only life purpose.
杀戮，似乎成为众人生活的唯一目标。
I came here on purpose to see you . 2. The doctor gave him a general anaesthetic. 3. Eating more vegetable is good for your health . 4.
我是专程来看你的.2。医生给他做全身麻醉。3。多吃蔬菜对你的健康有好处。
My life purpose is all about looking for a place where I belong.
我的人生目标就是为了找寻让我有归宿感的地方。
Peter is so infirm of purpose that it is useless to ask him for advice.
彼得这人优柔寡断，向他征求意见是徒劳无用的。
Shaw did not know the purpose of the footage and believed it to be publicity, not for the film.
肖并不知道拍这个片段的用意，还以为这只是用于宣传，而非加入到影片中。
'Come thou with me, ' said the Hare, 'and I will lead thee to it, for I know where it is hidden, and for what purpose. '
“跟我来吧，”小野兔说，“我带你去，我知道它藏在哪儿，也知道它的用途哦。”
These outer manifestations are necessary to enable him to focus on his true purpose which is always a divine one.
这些外在显现是必要的，能够令他聚焦于他那始终神圣的真正目标。
But he did not take his eye off the purpose of the factories: to make a profit.
但是他并没有忽视企业的宗旨：那就是赚取利润。
He was a man of purpose, a fine talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures.
这是个装腔作势的人，能言会道，突出他的笑容，重视他的手势。
It's not that it gives me a warm glow, but it does give me a certain peace with myself, and a sense of purpose.
这并不在于它给我带来了一种温暖的热情，而是确实让我自己获得了某种平静，并有了明确的目标。
Our Lord said, in effect, to Paul - Your whole life is to be over mastered by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine.
“主实际上是对保罗说，”你的整个生命由我作主，在我之外，你将没有任何别的目标和意义。
Circumstances provided should be very clear and easy to be proved for purpose of future lawsuit.
考虑将来的仲裁或诉讼，规定的情形应当明确且易于证明。
The requested information is for the purpose of order processing, order fulfilment and communication with you on your order status.
此信息仅作为处理订单，发货和随时与您保持联络通报有关订单处理进展情况。
Focus on your purpose - Even when the Apostle Paul was isolated in a prison, he never stopped living out his purpose.
专注在你的目标上-使徒保罗一个人被关在监牢里，仍没停止为他的目标而努力。
But I began looking at design in a place like Amsterdam and recognized, you know, the first job of design is to serve a social purpose.
但是我开始观察像阿姆斯特丹这样地方的设计结果发现，嗯，设计的首要目的是为社会服务。
No one was certain whether he postponed the visit on purpose, but this brought more criticism of him.
谁都不知道他是否故意推迟了这次访问，可是这引起了对他更多的批评。
Do not, for one failure, give up the purpose that you decided to effect.
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
You were really trying to prove you're a country boy. Were you using that phrase on purpose?
你的确在想证明你是个乡下小子。你真是故意这么发音的吗
