purpose

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基本釋義

n.
意圖,計劃; 情勢需要; 重要意義; 意志

詞性變化

實用例句

Our campaign's main purpose is to raise money.

我們這次活動的主要目的就是募款。

牛津詞典

The purpose of the book is to provide a complete guide to the university.

本書旨在全面介紹這所大學。

牛津詞典

A meeting was called for the purpose of appointing a new treasurer.

為任命新司庫而召開了一次會議。

牛津詞典

The experiments serve no useful purpose (= are not useful) .

這些實驗毫無用處。

牛津詞典

The building is used for religious purposes.

這座建筑是用于宗教活動的。

牛津詞典

These gifts count as income for tax purposes.

這些贈與應(yīng)屬于納稅的收入。

牛津詞典

For the purposes of this study, the three groups have been combined.

為了這項研究工作,三個小組業(yè)已合并。

牛津詞典

Volunteer work gives her life (a sense of) purpose .

做志愿工作使她的生活有了意義。

牛津詞典

He has enormous confidence and strength of purpose .

他信心十足,意志堅強。

牛津詞典

He did it on purpose, knowing it would annoy her.

他明知會激怒她,卻故意那么做。

牛津詞典

The purpose of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies...

那次活動是為籌集資金購買醫(yī)藥物資。

Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.

已經(jīng)有各種保險計劃可以實現(xiàn)這一目的。

They might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose...

為達成自己的目的,他們說不定已經(jīng)做好了傷害你的準備。

His purpose was to make a profit by improving the company's performance.

他的目標是通過提高公司的業(yè)績來實現(xiàn)盈利。

The teachers are enthusiastic and have a sense of purpose.

教師們很熱情并且很有決心。

For all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist...

實際上協(xié)議已經(jīng)不復(fù)存在。

To all intents and purposes the case was closed.

實際上該案已經(jīng)了結(jié)了。

Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose?

是意外還是戴維故意所為?

I can play the harmonica. Now, I'll play a song for you. Enjoy it please.

我會演奏口琴. 現(xiàn)在, 我將為你(你們)演奏一首歌曲. 請欣賞.

期刊摘選

We spoke to little purpose — his mind was clearly made up already.

我們說的話幾乎不起作用,他顯然已下定決心了.

《簡明英漢詞典》

It's time to set our differences by and work together for a common purpose.

該是我們拋開分歧,為一個共同的目的而協(xié)力工作的時候了.

《簡明英漢詞典》

I am rather hazy as to what your purpose is.

我摸不清你的用意何在.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

This machine serves a double purpose.

這部機器有雙重用途.

《簡明英漢詞典》

The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.

煉油廠的主要工作是提煉原油.

《簡明英漢詞典》

That is irrelevant; we must keep the main purpose of this meeting in sight.

那毫不相干, 我們要牢牢記住這次會議的主要目的.

《簡明英漢詞典》

I didn't hurt your pride on purpose.

我不是故意傷害你的自尊心.

《簡明英漢詞典》

真題例句

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep, cultivating a tremendous sense of strength.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

出自-2014年6月閱讀原文

We encourage students to go on to college whether they are prepared or not, or have a clear sense of purpose or interest, and now have the highest college dropout rate in the world

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Its purpose is to build and maintain bone and muscle mass, both of which shrink with age.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

What is the purpose of California's rule about alcohol display in gas stations

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

More than three fourths of government expenses are used for this purpose.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Most recognizable of the ship designs are the ship's smoke stacks, but the fourth stack was actually just artistic in nature and served no functional purpose.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

To Fendley, a sense of drive and purpose, as well as an effective high-school education, and basic life skills, like balancing a checkbook, are the necessary ingredients for a successful life in America.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

What is the chief purpose of all the countermeasures taken?

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer (二戰(zhàn)后生育高峰期出生的美國人) parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy (冷漠) they've inherited from Generation X (60 .代后期和70 .代出生的美國人).

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

The purpose of the speech was to encourage the audience of corporate executives and local business owners to support local sports groups.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

For what purpose was Larry going to make a speech

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastian's experiment?

出自-2012年6月聽力原文

Kwanzaa is based on seven principles which are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

The purpose of today's lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

2017年高考英語北京卷 單項填空 原文

But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

For this purpose, select ripe bananas for freezing as they are much sweeter.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

In 1963 the UN set up the World Food Programme, one of whose purposes is to relieve worldwide starvation.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文

In addition, their arms that are unnecessary for moving around are freed for other purposes, like throwing stones or signaling.

2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 任務(wù)型閱讀 原文

Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 題設(shè)

Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics, put it this way: if we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

One of the purposes of the annual pony drift is to control the number of ponies.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)

Successful product design takes into consideration a product's function, purpose, shape, form, color, and so on.

2016年高考英語上海卷 選詞填空 原文

The only purpose of it is to create a website that can win you a competition.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 原文

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The purpose of the text is to persuade.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設(shè)

This has given me a purpose.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

We can infer that the purpose of Whaley's project is to help students see their own strengths.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設(shè)

When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 完形填空 原文

You are only one person, and you do not have time to waste on people who would rather cause drama or mess up with your purpose.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

You are now not wanted; you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

"The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, of patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formation of truly noble and manly character, exhibit," wrote Smiles, " what it is in the power of each to ac

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But creating a future army of coders is not the sole purpose of the classes.

2016年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

2015年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

It was the purpose and responsibility of great minds to go forth and seek out the truth, which they believed to be founded in knowledge.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The main purpose of this "clawback" rule is to hold bankers accountable for harmful risk-taking and to restore public trust in financial institution.

2019年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

2015年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

2015年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

"You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations: terms like vision, values, passion, and purpose, " said Khurana.

2015年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;

    "his intent was to provide a new translation"

    "good intentions are not enough"

    "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"

    "he made no secret of his designs"

  • 2. what something is used for;

    "the function of an auger is to bore holes"

    "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

  • 3. the quality of being determined to do or achieve something;

    "his determination showed in his every movement"

    "he is a man of purpose"

Verb
  • 1. propose or intend;

    "I aim to arrive at noon"

  • 2. reach a decision;

    "he resolved never to drink again"

同義詞辨析

aim, goal, purpose, end, target, object, objective

這些名詞均有"目標,目的"之意。

  • aim:從本義"靶子"引申而來,側(cè)重比較具體而明確的目標,但常指短期目標。
  • goal:指經(jīng)過考慮和選擇,需經(jīng)堅持不懈的努力奮斗才能達到的最終目標。
  • purpose:普通用詞,既指以堅決、審慎的行動去達到的目的,又指心中渴望要實際的目標。
  • end:指心目中懷著的某種目的,強調(diào)結(jié)果而非過程。較正式用詞。
  • target:指射擊的靶,軍事攻擊目標。引申指被攻擊、批評或潮笑的目標。
  • object:強調(diào)個人或需求而決定的目標、目的。
  • objective:與object基本同義,但語義更廣泛,指具體或很快能達到的目的,也可指軍事目標。書面用詞。

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