generative grammar has taken explanatory adequacy as an ultimate goal of linguistic theories ever since the publication of syntactic structures.
自《句法结构》问世以来,生成语法就以解释充分性作为其追求的最高目标。
an ultimate goal in traffic regulation is 「the green wave, 」 the bam, bam, bam of greens that allows platoons of vehicles to move smoothly through intersection after intersection.
交通管制的终极目标是「绿色波浪」,也就是那些能让车辆队伍流畅的穿过一个接一个的交叉路口的,啵,啵,啵作响的一路绿灯。
citizenship education is not only regarded as a tool, but an ultimate goal for all modern education.
公民教育并非只有工具性的一面,就目的性而言,它乃是全部现代教育的终极目标。