purpose

美音：['pɜrpəs] 英音：['pɜː(r)pəs]

简单释义：

n.目的；用途；目标；意图

v.想；决心(做)

网络宗旨；效果；意义

变形：

复数：purposes 过去分词：purposed 现在分词：purposing

完整释义：

1.目的,宗旨,意向
2.目的;意图
3.用途,效果;意义
4.意图,用意;打算,心愿
5.决意,意志,决心
6.(讨论中的)论题

1.(文)意欲;意图:
2.想,企图,打算(做);决心(做)

例句：

The answer was negative, since the old chat channels were quite generic and did not serve their purpose.
答案是木有。老式的那种聊天频道太废柴了，和我们的设计意图不符。
He never writes anything out of nothing - his latest poem is one with a purpose.
他从不写空洞的东西-他最近写的诗就是有目的的。
He said. "The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern, yet, they both make the forest beautiful. "
竹子与蕨树有着不同的生命意义，它们都使得这个树林更加美丽。
Paying the bills, trying to get job interviews, and most importantly, trying to figure out what the heck his life's purpose is now.
支付账单，寻求面试机会，而且更重要的是，努力弄清楚自己的生活目标到底是什么。
Digital certificates can be easily created with the command-line OpenSSL tool or with any other tool made for that purpose.
数字证书可以使用OpenSSL命令行工具或其他用于此目的的工具简单地创建。
Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper -- hard-eyed , and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.
恰在此时，他遇到了他的铁哥们儿乔•哈帕——他两眼发直，显然心怀鬼胎。
The purpose of this laboratory activity is to investigate the wave nature of light by studying diffraction patterns.
本实验的目的是通过衍射斑研究光的波动性。
This purpose of this prime directive is often misunderstood.
该基本指令的意图经常被误解。

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