means to an end

基本解釋

It feels like a way of life, not a means to an end.
它更像是一種生活態(tài)度，而不僅僅是達(dá)到目的的手段。
This is where XML is seen as a data storage mechanism, and in a lot of ways, a means to an end.
這些技術(shù)將 XML 看作一種數(shù)據(jù)存儲機(jī)制，而且在許多情形下看作一種達(dá)到目的的手段。
But if we stop to think about it, most of us recognise that material and financial wealth are just a means to an end, not the end in themselves.
但是，如果我們停下來反思一下，我們中的絕大部分人都承認(rèn)物質(zhì)享受和金融財(cái)富僅是達(dá)到目的的手段，而不是要在財(cái)富中終結(jié)。

That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.
In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?
換言之，對我來說，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剝削你，或把你工具化，是吧？
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Kant says people ought to be an end and not a means for us; we ought to understand them on their terms."
康德說人們應(yīng)該使我們的終點(diǎn)，而不是途逕;,我們應(yīng)該從他們的角度來理解他們“
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Trading is a different sort of economic good, just a means to an end.
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