serve the purpose

基本解释

Application frameworks serve the purpose of encapsulating the architectural mechanism contracts and common functions for applications that leverage them to realize a set of business objectives.
应用程序框架为利用了它们来实现一组业务目标的应用程序，封装了架构机制契约和公共的功能。
The object of experience exists only to serve the purpose of the Atman.
经验的对象仅仅为服务于阿特漫的目的而存在。
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Therefore, all possible means, linguistic or non-linguistic, have been adopted by advertisers to serve the purpose of advertising.
因此，广告撰写人尽可能地采用一切语言及非语言的技巧来实现广告宣传的目的。

In a White House statement, President Obama said the bombings "serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children."
Religion had to bring a softening effect upon against the violent and bestial character of the early Romans. But for us today, Machiavelli writes, religion has to serve the opposite purpose.
宗教必须带来一种缓和效应，用以针对,早期罗马人的野蛮残忍的性格,但是对于今天的我们来说，马基雅维利写道，宗教不得不为相反的目的服务。
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Beyond that, nuclear weapons would even serve the purpose of a far more ambitious aim.
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The ECB does not discriminate among member issuers, so Italian bonds serve the purpose just as well as Finnish ones.
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