Aim

(noun.) the action of directing something at an object; 'he took aim and fired'.

(noun.) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); 'the sole object of her trip was to see her children'.

(verb.) propose or intend; 'I aim to arrive at noon'.

(verb.) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal; 'She wanted to aim a pun'.

(verb.) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; 'Please don't aim at your little brother!'; 'He trained his gun on the burglar'; 'Don't train your camera on the women'; 'Take a swipe at one's opponent'.

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• I've heard him say he's a capital one,' replied Mr. Pickwick, 'but I never saw him aim at anything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling chord--to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole present aim was to cheer him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To identify acting with an aim and intelligent activity is enough to show its value--its function in experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The net conclusion is that acting with an aim is all one with acting intelligently. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I am happy, which is, to my mind, the main aim of life. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Doing proceeds from needs and aims at change. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To avoid excitement was one of Miss Mann's aims in life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The gypsy aimed carefully and fired and as he jerked the bolt back and ejected the shell Robert Jordan said, Over. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The blow was aimed at hazard, and was not a severe one. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I opened up my holster, took the pistol, aimed at the one who had talked the most, and fired. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I poized it--aimed it--then my heart failed me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This Emma felt was aimed at her; and it made her quite angry. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Thus in aiming at the increase of his own private pleasurable states of consciousness, he contributes to the consciousness of others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Aiming at the center of his chest, a little lower than the device, Robert Jordan fired. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I think the gentleman you mentioned must be the point she's aiming at, and yet I don't like his living down in her own part of the country neither. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I see very little good in people aiming out of their own sphere. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We have perhaps arrived at the stage of philosophy which enables us to understand what he is aiming at, better than he did himself. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Darius had already made plans for an expedition into Europe, aiming not at Greece, but to the northward of Greece, across the Bosphorus and Danube. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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