sole purpose

基本解释

Just as XML is often joked about as being a standard whose sole purpose is to create more standards.
就象大家经常开玩笑说 XML 是这样一个标准，它的唯一目的是产生更多的标准。
The thesis is a formal document whose sole purpose is to prove that you have made an original contribution to knowledge.
论文是一种很正规的文献，它的唯一目的就是证明你对知识做出了创新性的贡献。
You might create the plug-in with the sole purpose of deploying the profile, or the profile could be added to an existing plug-in where it will be just one of many artifacts.
您可以创建以部署概要文件的单一目的来创建插件，或者这个概要文件可以添加到一个现存的插件中，在这里它仅仅是众多构件中的一个。

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.
因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人
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In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.
美国法律规定，如果你仅因为年龄原因辞退员工，
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If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.
如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。
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To paraphrase Adam Smith, the sole purpose of money is to facilitate the exchange of goods.
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