And this kind of defeated the purpose.

而这似乎有点本末倒置。

Waiting until the last couple of days defeats the purpose of spaced repetition.

一直等到最后几天才打破间隔重复的目的。

Look, there's no replacing either of you without an amount of work that would ultimately defeat the purpose.

替换你俩得花大量工夫，而且最终事与愿违。

It would just defeat the purpose entirely.

它只会完全违背目的。

Kinda defeats the purpose of making extra money.

我是想赚外快 这不本末倒置了嘛。

No, I can't let you touch it. That would defeat the purpose.

不，我不能让你碰它， 那样会毁了它的作用。

Well, that kinda defeats the purpose of making sure you don't get hurt.

这好像与确保你不会受伤的任务相悖。

Unfortunately, they only work if cooled to low temperatures, which requires energy and defeats the purpose.

不幸的是， 它们只有在冷却到低温时才能工作，这需要能量并且达不到目的。

Also, daily critiques force you to write with the door constantly open, and in my mind that sort of defeats the purpose.

并且，每天的批评要求你必须不断地打开门来写作，就我的理解，这似乎与工作坊的目的相背。

It would defeat the purpose.I mean, how do you steal a car with a flat?

这有违初衷 怎么会有人偷 轮胎漏气的车呢？

If you think about it, that kind of defeats the purpose of her being able to choose her husband in the first place.

如果你仔细想想，那就违背了她最初选择丈夫的目的。

And I think if a parent just swoops in and buys all the boxes or buys too many boxes, it defeats the purpose of what the program stands for.

我认为，如果家长突然介入，买下了所有的饼干，或者买了太多盒，这就违背了这个项目的宗旨。

It can even swipe to text on the physical keyboard, which is cool at first, but if you think about it, it defeats the purpose of having a physical keyboard in the first place.

它甚至可以滑动到实物键盘上的文本，这首先是很酷的，但是如果你仔细想想，它会首先破坏拥有事物键盘的目的。

So it's really unfortunate because language is a way to communicate and if we're not communicating well, nobody's gonna understand us and that kind of defeats the purpose of language which is for communication.

这很遗憾，因为语言是一种交流的方式，如果我们不能很好地交流，没有人会理解我们，这就破坏了语言交流的目的。

But that defeats the purposes, many parents have told me, of teaching their children financial literacy and having them go through the process of learning procurement, learning distribution, learning sales, and then learning to manage money.

但是，许多家长告诉我，这违背了教育孩子财务知识的目的——让他们经历学习采购、学习分配、学习销售，然后学习管理金钱的过程。

To have observed the strict letter of the law would have defeated the purposes of the delegates, because Congress and the state legislatures were openly hostile to such drastic changes as had been made.

严格遵守法律条文会违背代表们的意图，因为国会和州立法机构公开反对已经做出的如此剧烈的改变。

Because also numbers like " 17" , " 14" , if you don't say them clearly enough, can sound like " 70" or " 40" , and then, again, you've defeated the purpose because somebody hasn't got the critical information they need to call you back.

因为还有像“17”，“14”这样的数字，如果你没能清晰的说出来，可能会被听成“70”或“40”，那么，你就失败了，因为某人还没有得到给你回电所需的关键信息。