He ceases to be himself. He is no longer an individual, but a thing, an instrument to some purpose foreign to his ego.

他不再是一个人，他成了追求某一个他不了解的目的的一件事物、一个工具。

" It's five miles; and as you're evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know about yourself" .

“它有五英里；既然你显然一心想说话，你不妨通过告诉我你对自己的了解来达到某种目的。”

Then the March family turned out en masse, and Jo exerted herself to some purpose, for people not only came, but stayed, laughing at her nonsense, admiring Amy's taste, and apparently enjoying themselves very much.

然后马奇一家人全都出来了，乔为了某种目的而努力，因为人们不仅来了，而且还留下来，嘲笑她的胡说八道，欣赏艾米的品味，显然玩得很开心。

Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends said.

不论劳里的动机何在，他那一年的确是为了某种目的在努力学习，于是他以优等成绩毕了业，他的朋友们形容他在用拉丁语演说时，菲利普斯的优雅气度和狄摩西尼的雄辩在他身上兼而有之。