in the cause of

基本解释

We have achieved great successes in the cause of building up our country.
我们在建设我们国家的事业中取得了巨大的成就。
《新英汉大辞典》
Like it or not, in the cause of the war on drugs the Obama administration looks likely to be drawn into a sustained security commitment to a neighbor of the kind Mr. Clinton launched in Colombia.
不管愿不愿意，为了反毒品斗争的需要，奥巴马内阁很可能不得不承担起为邻国安全负责的义务，就像当年克林顿总统援助哥伦比亚的计划一样。
Chesterton was a writer of considerable talent who whose to suppress both his sensibilities and his intellectual honesty in the cause of Roman Catholic propaganda.
切斯特顿曾是一个极具天赋的作家，但为了罗马教廷的政治宣传而压抑着自己的情感和理智。

This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five.
All of Milton's labors in the cause of liberating England from the tyranny of monarchy had in some way - could be construed as having been useless.
弥尔顿为把英国从君主暴政解放出来,所做的努力在某种程度上,可以说是付之东流了。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选
What I would say about this one, cause it's most complicated, I would say, in the history of humanity.
我会说，因为,是非常复杂的，我会说，是整个人类史上最复杂的。
普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Fischer is an example of an artist who was self-effacing, but bold in the cause of music.
ECONOMIST: The keys of the kingdom