In fact, you may set your purpose once and spend your entire career living up to it.

实际上，定下目标是一时的，实现它可能是一世的。

Does any one live, who knows what set purposes you have, half as well as I do?

有没有人活着，谁知道你有什么既定的目标，有我的一半？

It is not probable, be it said, that he acted with any set purpose of involving Clifford in a charge of murder.

可以这么说，他的行为不可能有任何既定的目的，让克利福德被控谋杀。

Not of course that anyone in their senses would counsel her to hold up to scorn and ridicule of set purpose—literature shows the futility of what is written in that spirit.

当然，任何理智的人都不会建议她忍受既定目标的蔑视和嘲笑——文学表明本着这种精神所写的东西是徒劳的。

It was obvious that the thief had come with a set purpose, which rendered the crime even more mysterious; because, why did he assume so great a risk for such a trifling object?

显然，小偷是有来意的，这也让这起犯罪事件更加扑朔迷离。因为，他为什么要为了区区一件小事冒这么大的风险？