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  • 柯林斯词典
  • AI释义
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  • 牛津词典
  • purpose

    高中/CET4/CET6

    • 英 [ˈpɜːpəs]
    • 美 [ˈpɜːrpəs]

    释义

    • 常用
    • 高考讲解
    • n.
      意图,计划; 情势需要; 重要意义; 意志
  • 词态变化

    • 复数: purposes;
    • 第三人称单数: purposes;
    • 过去式: purposed;
    • 过去分词: purposed;
    • 现在分词: purposing;
  • 实用场景例句

    • 全部
    • 意志
    • 目的
    • 作用
    • 行动
    • 有意
    • 打算
    • 企图

    The primary purpose of the campaign was to gather funds for vital medical supplies.

    这次活动的主要目的是为重要医疗物资筹集资金。

    金山词霸

    Insurance plans are designed specifically for this purpose.

    这些保险计划是专为这一目的设计的。

    金山词霸

    Driven by their purpose, they might deliberately aim to inflict harm upon you.

    出于目的,他们可能蓄意要对你造成伤害。

    金山词霸

    With the purpose of boosting the company's efficiency, he sought to create monetary benefits.

    他以提升公司效率为目的,力求创造经济利益。

    金山词霸

    The teachers pursue their purpose with remarkable enthusiasm and steadfast resolve.

    这些教师以非凡的热情和坚定的决心追求他们的目标。

    金山词霸

    The original purpose of the agreement has effectively ceased to apply.

    该协议的最初目的实际上已不再适用。

    金山词霸

    The purpose of the matter was thoroughly resolved from all perspectives.

    这件事的意图已在各个角度得到了彻底解决。

    金山词霸

    Was David's action driven by purpose or simply an unfortunate accident?

    戴维的行为是出于意图还是仅仅是个不幸的意外?

    金山词霸

    The aim of the article is to offer a detailed overview of the museum.

    这篇文章旨在详细概述这座博物馆。

    金山词霸

    A conference was arranged for the purpose of electing a new committee chair.

    为选举新委员会主席而安排了一次会议。

    金山词霸

    The research yields no clear purpose (= is not meaningful).

    这项研究没有明确目的(毫无意义)。

    金山词霸

    The park is designed for recreational purposes.

    这个公园是为休闲活动而设计的。

    金山词霸

    Benefits received from such programs count as deductions for tax purposes.

    此类计划的收益应属于免税的扣除项。

    金山词霸

    For the purpose of this experiment, the two teams have been merged.

    为了这个实验的目的,两个团队已经合并。

    金山词霸

    Helping others brings his life a sense of purpose.

    帮助他人给他的生活带来了目标感。

    金山词霸

    She left the door open on purpose, knowing it would let the cold air in.

    她明知会让冷空气进来,却故意把门开着。

    金山词霸

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  • 真题例句

    • 全部
    • 四级
    • 六级
    • 高考
    • 考研

    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 ( ' , including other scientists) 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

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  • 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"

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  • 词组搭配

    to no purpose

    with no result or effect; pointlessly

    无结果地,无成效地,徒劳地

    to the purpose

    relevant or useful

    与本题有关的,得要领的,合适的;有用的

    you may have heard something from them which is to the purpose.

    你或许已从他们那儿听到了一些有关的事情。

    on purpose

    Intentionally; deliberately.

    故意地;有意地

    to good purpose

    With good results.

    有益地,有成效地

    to little purpose 或 to no purpose

    With few or no results.

    几乎徒劳的,少有成效地

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  • 词根词缀

    词根: pose

    1. =put,表示"放"; 2. 引申为"职位"

    • adj.

      disposed 愿意的,想干的

      dispose安排+ed……的→任安排的→心甘情愿的

      indisposed 不愿意的,身体不适的

      in不+disposed[adj.愿意的,想干的]→adj.不愿意的,身体不适的

    • n.

      composer 作家, 作曲家, 设计者, 著作者

      compose创作+er人→composer作家, 作曲家

      pose 姿势,姿态

      pose放→n.姿势,姿态 v.造成,提出,摆姿势,佯装

      proposal 提议,建议;求婚

      propose[v.计划, 建议, 向……提议, 求[婚] v.打算, 求婚]+al表名词→n.提议,建议;求婚

      purpose 目的,意图;用途,效果

      pur=per+pose放→始终放着的→目的

      repose 休息;躺下

      re再+pose放→再放下[工作]→休息

    • v.

      compose 组成,构成;[of]由…组成;创作[诗歌等]

      com一起+pose放→放到一起→组成

      depose 沉淀

      de下去+pose放→沉淀

      discompose 解体;使失态,慌张

      dis分开+compose组成,构成→解体

      dispose [of]处理,处置;[for]布置,安排

      dis分开+pose放→分开排列→安排

      expose 暴露

      ex出+pose放→放出来→暴露

      impose 征[税];[on]把…强加给

      im进+pose放→进去放[强放]→强加

      juxtapose 并排,并置

      juxta并排+pose放→并排放

      oppose 反对, 使对立

      op=ob反对+pose放→置于相反地方

      pose 造成,提出,摆姿势,佯装

      pose放→n.姿势,姿态 v.造成,提出,摆姿势,佯装

      propose 计划, 建议, 向……提议, 求[婚]

      pro向前+pose放→向前放→提议

      transpose 调换, 颠倒顺序, 移项

      trans变换+pose放→变换放→调换

  • 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。
  • 同义词

    vt.打算;意图;目标

    aimwillintentionresolutiontargetdesigngoalobjectdeterminationplan

    其他释义

    determinegoalaimendresolutionintentiondesignmeaningproposemissionthingpursuitobjectsaketargetwillobjectivedeterminationplan