dual-purpose
两用,两用的,双用途,两用型
Definitions
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- : serving two functions: a dual-purpose database for research and teaching.
- : bred for two purposes, as to provide beef and milk.
Examples
By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.
They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.
In short, Maduro is now facing dual crises: One economic, the other of legitimacy.
But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.
The whole purpose of the gang is to generate money for its incarcerated leaders.
Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
The emperor Nicholas of Russia declared, by ukase, his purpose to assist Austria.
For the purpose of ascertaining the Board's powers in this connection the opinion of the Attorney General has been requested.
The culture of expression is a very different thing from the artful imitation of the signs of feeling and purpose.