1、purpose

意义；用途

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

那次活动是为筹集资金购买医药物资。

Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.

已经有各种保险计划可以实现这一目的。

目标；目的

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

为达成自己的目的，他们说不定已经做好了伤害你的准备。

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

他的目标是通过提高公司的业绩来实现盈利。

实际上

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

实际上协议已经不复存在。

To all intents and purposes the case was closed.

实际上该案已经了结了。

2、employ

雇用

The company employs 18 staff.

公司雇用了18名员工。

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

3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。

使用;采用

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

警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。

the vocabulary that she employs.

她使用的词汇

利用，花费（时间）

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

你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。

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

记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。