1、purpose

意義；用途

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

那次活動是為籌集資金購買醫(yī)藥物資。

Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.

已經(jīng)有各種保險計劃可以實現(xiàn)這一目的。

目標(biāo)；目的

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

為達(dá)成自己的目的，他們說不定已經(jīng)做好了傷害你的準(zhǔn)備。

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

他的目標(biāo)是通過提高公司的業(yè)績來實現(xiàn)盈利。

實際上

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

實際上協(xié)議已經(jīng)不復(fù)存在。

To all intents and purposes the case was closed.

實際上該案已經(jīng)了結(jié)了。

2、employ

雇用

The company employs 18 staff.

公司雇用了18名員工。

More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.

3,000余名當(dāng)?shù)厝耸芄陀诼糜螛I(yè)。

使用;采用

The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.

警方目前即將采取的策略明顯很強(qiáng)硬。

the vocabulary that she employs.

她使用的詞匯

利用，花費（時間）

Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters.

你可以有效地利用時間處理一些專業(yè)問題。

The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.

記者們最好花時間向我們說明為什么訴訟費高得驚人。