Short selling serves a really important public purpose.

卖空服务有一个非常重要的公共目的。

It was the idea of getting Bulstrode to apply some money to a public purpose — some money which he had thought of giving me.

这是让布尔斯特罗德将一些钱用于公共目的的想法——一些他曾想给我的钱。

The state staggered under taxes which were paid in fury, for the taxpayers knew that much of the money voted for public purposes was finding its way into private pockets.

这个州在税收问题上有步履维艰的感觉，因为纳税人发现那些作为公共事业费表决通过的钱有不少落进了私人腰包，他们是怀着满腔愤怒在交税的。

In the progress of despotism, the authority of the executive power gradually absorbs that of every other power in the state, and assumes to itself the management of every branch of revenue which is destined for any public purpose.

在专制主义的进程中，行政权力的权威逐渐吸收了国家中所有其他权力的权力，并承担了对用于任何公共目的的每一个收入部门的管理。