Purpose
['pɜːpəs] or ['pɝpəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) reach a decision; 'he resolved never to drink again'.
錄入:希莉娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
(n.) Instance; example.
(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
手打:谢莉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Aim, intent, intention, design, object, end, drift, view, final cause.
v. a. Intend, design, mean, meditate, think of, have in mind, resolve upon, propose to one's self.
v. n. Intend, design, mean, have in mind.
詹妮校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose
ANT:Chance, risk, hazard, revoke, Miscalculate, venture, stake
SYN:Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point,resolve
ANT:Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit
安迪編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to intend (often followed by an infinitive or participial clause as its object).—v.i. to have an intention: (Spens.) to discourse.—adj. Pur′poseful having an object: full of meaning.—adv. Pur′posefully.—n. Pur′posefulness.—adj. Pur′poseless without purpose or effect: aimless.—adv. Pur′poselessly.—n. Pur′poselessness.—adj. Pur′pose-like having a definite purpose: having the appearance of being fit for a purpose.—adv. Pur′posely with purpose: intentionally.—n. Pur′poser.—adj. Pur′posive having an aim: (biol.) functional.—n. Pur′posiveness.
n. idea or aim kept before the mind as the end of effort: aim intention: effect: (Spens.) conversation: (pl.) a sort of conversational game.—Of or On purpose with design intentionally; To the purpose to the point or material to the question.
錄入:提托
例句/造句/用法:
- Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This purpose continued as you wove it? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was now reduced and confined to the original purpose of its institution. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open by a leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus cries out: 'Stop him! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- For blasting purposes also it presents the promise of possible utilization. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Now the operator has to adjust himself to his machine, instead of his tool to his own purposes. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Whatever natural science may be for the specialist, for educational purposes it is knowledge of the conditions of human action. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o'clock. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- After our early dinner, I strolled out alone, purposing to finish off the marshes at once, and get them done with. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- No maiden, said Bois-Guilbert, this was NOT all that I purposed. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I think he had purposed on that day to indicate the origin of his endeavours, and the aim of his ambition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was, that he purposed first seeing Mrs. Steerforth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Like March, having come in like a lion, he purposed to go out like a lamb. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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