purpose

高中CET4CET6

英[ˈpɜːpəs]
美[ˈpɜːrpəs]

基本释义

n.
意图,计划; 情势需要; 重要意义; 意志

词性变化

实用例句

Our campaign's main purpose is to raise money.

我们这次活动的主要目的就是募款。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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

为任命新司库而召开了一次会议。

牛津词典

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

这些实验毫无用处。

牛津词典

The building is used for religious purposes.

这座建筑是用于宗教活动的。

牛津词典

These gifts count as income for tax purposes.

这些赠与应属于纳税的收入。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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

做志愿工作使她的生活有了意义。

牛津词典

He has enormous confidence and strength of purpose .

他信心十足,意志坚强。

牛津词典

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

他明知会激怒她,却故意那么做。

牛津词典

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

那次活动是为筹集资金购买医药物资。

Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.

已经有各种保险计划可以实现这一目的。

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

为达成自己的目的,他们说不定已经做好了伤害你的准备。

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

他的目标是通过提高公司的业绩来实现盈利。

The teachers are enthusiastic and have a sense of purpose.

教师们很热情并且很有决心。

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

实际上协议已经不复存在。

To all intents and purposes the case was closed.

实际上该案已经了结了。

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

是意外还是戴维故意所为?

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

我会演奏口琴. 现在, 我将为你(你们)演奏一首歌曲. 请欣赏.

期刊摘选

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

我们说的话几乎不起作用,他显然已下定决心了.

《简明英汉词典》

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

该是我们抛开分歧,为一个共同的目的而协力工作的时候了.

《简明英汉词典》

I am rather hazy as to what your purpose is.

我摸不清你的用意何在.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

This machine serves a double purpose.

这部机器有双重用途.

《简明英汉词典》

The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.

炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油.

《简明英汉词典》

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

那毫不相干, 我们要牢牢记住这次会议的主要目的.

《简明英汉词典》

I didn't hurt your pride on purpose.

我不是故意伤害你的自尊心.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

What is the chief purpose of all the countermeasures taken?

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) 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 .代出生的美国人).

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

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月听力原文

For what purpose was Larry going to make a speech

出自-2013年12月听力原文

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

出自-2012年6月听力原文

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

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2017年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

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

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

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

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

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

2016年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 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年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The purpose of the text is to persuade.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

This has given me a purpose.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

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

2016年高考英语全国卷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年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 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年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

"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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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"

同义词辨析

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

这些名词均有"目标,目的"之意。

  • aim:从本义"靶子"引申而来,侧重比较具体而明确的目标,但常指短期目标。
  • goal:指经过考虑和选择,需经坚持不懈的努力奋斗才能达到的最终目标。
  • purpose:普通用词,既指以坚决、审慎的行动去达到的目的,又指心中渴望要实际的目标。
  • end:指心目中怀着的某种目的,强调结果而非过程。较正式用词。
  • target:指射击的靶,军事攻击目标。引申指被攻击、批评或潮笑的目标。
  • object:强调个人或需求而决定的目标、目的。
  • objective:与object基本同义,但语义更广泛,指具体或很快能达到的目的,也可指军事目标。书面用词。

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