1·Be careful not to cover plants too closely, which could trap heat and defeat the purpose of shading.
注意不要把植物遮盖得过于密实，那样会使热量散发不出去，达不到遮荫的目的。
2·They presented use cases to the legal department to help them understand how purging content so frequently would defeat the purpose of the system.
它们为法律部门提供了一些用例，以帮助它们理解经常净化内容为何会破坏系统的作用。
3·The configuration is as minimal as possible because the point of a framework is to simplify tasks, so complicating the configuration would defeat that purpose.
配置应尽可能地少，因为框架的目的是简化任务，复杂的配置将无法达到此目的。
4·You aren't meant to ever make sense of them since that would defeat the whole purpose.
你命中注定地无法感觉到他们，因为那将戳穿整个谎言。
5·Allowing too much free space, however, could cause extra pages to be read for queries and largely defeat the purpose of using a clustering index.
不过，如果允许太多自由空间的存在，则可能导致查询时需要读取额外的页，这反而大大违反了使用群集索引的本意。
6·She maintains that she should pay me for staying in the flat, whereas I argue that this would defeat the purpose of the exercise.
她坚持为在我的公寓里居住付钱，但我认为这会违背我那么做的本意。
7·Thatwould slow the process and defeat much of the purpose.
那将会大大的缓解这个过程并且改变大多数的意愿。
8·You can choose not to answer questions or to adjust privacy Settings so that others can't find you, but that tends to defeat the purpose of a social networking site.
你可以不回答问题或调整隐私设定这样其他人就找不到你，不过那样违背了社交网站的本意。
9·Before I set foot on the floor, I had only one purpose, and that was to win, and nothing in the world was worse than the one who had spent the night in the defeat of Iverson.
在踏上任何比赛的地板之前，我，艾弗森只有一个目的，那就是取胜，这世界上没有什么比在失败中度过一个夜晚更糟糕的了。
10·When using Ajax on the client, it is best if you don't block the client, and thus the asynchronous calls. Blocking would defeat the purpose of using Ajax.
在客户机上使用Ajax时，最好不要阻塞客户机，这样就不会阻塞异步调用。