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基本釋義

v.
意思是; 打算; 意味著; 意義重大; 表明; 對…當(dāng)真
adj.
吝嗇的; 刻薄的
n.
中庸; 平均

詞性變化

實用例句

In modern Welsh, 'glas' means 'blue'...

在現(xiàn)代威爾士語中,glas 意為“藍色”。

What does 'evidence' mean?...

evidence 是什么意思?

Do you mean me?...

你指的是我嗎?

Let me illustrate what I mean with an old story...

讓我用一個古老的故事來說明我的意思吧。

The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him...

雖然她目睹了這可恥的一幕,但是這對他來說無關(guān)緊要。

It would mean a lot to them to win.

獲勝對他們來說非常重要。

An enlarged prostate does not necessarily mean cancer...

前列腺腫大不一定就是癌癥。

Just because he has a beard doesn't necessarily mean he's a hippy.

不能因為他蓄須就說他是嬉皮士。

It would almost certainly mean the end of NATO...

這幾乎肯定會導(dǎo)致北大西洋公約組織的終結(jié)。

Trade and product discounts can also mean big savings...

商品促銷與產(chǎn)品折扣同樣意味著可能會省下一大筆錢。

Children universally prefer to live in peace and security, even if that means living with only one parent...

孩子們普遍愿意過平靜安寧的生活,即便這意味著只能與單親生活在一起。

Managing well means communicating well.

良好的管理需要有效的溝通。

He says you're fired if you're not back at work on Friday. And I think he meant it...

他說,如果你星期五還不回去上班的話就解雇你。我想他是當(dāng)真的。

He could see I meant what I said. So he took his fur coat and left.

他看得出我并非只是說說而已,于是拿起他的皮衣走了。

I didn't mean to hurt you...

我無意傷害你。

If that sounds harsh, it is meant to...

如果這么說聽起來刺耳的話,那目的就達到了。

I'm sure he didn't mean any harm...

我相信他并無惡意。

I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark.

我本無意冒犯,那不過是句脫口而出的冒失話。

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on the new books you meant to read...

夏天是把想讀卻沒讀的新書惡補一下的最佳時機。

You know very well what I meant to say...

你非常清楚我想說什么。

John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together.

約翰不斷安慰我說,我們注定要在一起。

It was his idea. Gordon's, I mean...

這是他的主意,我是指戈登。

Is something upsetting you—I mean, apart from this business?

有什么煩心事嗎?我的意思是,除了這件事以外還有嗎?

I'm sure he wouldn't mind. I mean, I was the one who asked him...

我肯定他不會在意的,因為是我問他的。

They were filled with racial stereotypes, I mean, it looked like something from the 1930s.

他們滿腦子種族成見,似乎都是些20世紀30年代的老思想。

It was law or classics—I mean English or classics.

是法律或者古典文學(xué)——我的意思是英語或古典文學(xué)。

I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances.

我明白在這種悲慘的情況下失去孩子的滋味。

'Oh, Gairdner,' he said, as if that meant something to him...

“哦,蓋爾德納,”他說道,好像他聽說過這個名字。

Does the word 'Fareham' mean anything to anyone?

有人對 Fareham 這個詞有印象嗎?

I know you mean well, but I can manage by myself.

我明白您的好意,不過我自己能行。

真題例句

This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

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The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

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Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

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Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

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Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

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A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

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I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair.

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Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

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The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

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Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

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Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

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I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that.

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But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.

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The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

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That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

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Security devices are required to list the frequencies they broadcast on—that means that a potential thief can find what they need to know with minimal Googling.

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Only a very small proportion of burglaries are committed by technical means.

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Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.

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It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

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It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.

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It could also mean training employees how to do their jobs through video game platforms.

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Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

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Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.

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But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

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This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer, the environmental agency said.

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It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have ?plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

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It means that we aren’t very friendly, we aren’t very open.

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This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

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That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

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Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.

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In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques .

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"Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend," Soupios says.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

A commentary in the Shanghai Daily points out that innovation doesn't mean piles of documents.

2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are "engaged" is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberati

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

And yet that does not mean that simply extending our careers is appealing.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Being depressed can mean feeling "lost in your own small, negative, dark world," Dowrick says.

2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains?

2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

But this does not mean the end of the textbook itself.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

I mean a lot of people seem to think that it's a nice job, you know.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

I mean isn't it time for you to think about getting married?

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

I mean, it's been two decades, but I can still remember when I got my first real salary.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Just because emails are a quick form of communication, it doesn't mean emails, especially business emails, should be written using informal, shortened forms of words.

2018年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Just because they can't sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn't mean that animal don't have culture.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become one.

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

More stages mean more possible sequences.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.

2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

You mean high school graduates can't do this task in general?

2017年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

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The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

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The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

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But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

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Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

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There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

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In his eyes, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that innovation has stopped.

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You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.

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People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

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I now put 20 dollars a week into my vacation fund and another 20 into retirement savings, she says, Those mean more to me than lunch.

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Unfortunately for them , our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia , and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

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That means that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's licence to fly.

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A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn't mean elementary education isn't important.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

And just because work stops, it doesn't mean we are recovering.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

But simply switching to electric can will not mean pollution-free cities.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Collaborative projects mean you're sharing the spotlight with others.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Forward exchange cover, now what does that mean exactly?

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

I mean we deal with all kinds of people on a regular basis.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

I mean, I've seen the famous films, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's and a few others, but I still don't fully get it.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

I mean, what people regard as luck, you can actually create, to a degree.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

I'm sorry, do you mean to say, it's a real-life series about a real person?

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In his eyes, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that innovation has stopped.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

It doesn't mean that my to-do lists no longer exist, but I've become more aware of the importance of slowing down and making sure that I enjoy the daily activities as I carry them out.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

It's true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from .

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Just because you can make good choices for others doesn't mean you'll do the same for yourself, Polman cautions.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Sorry, what do you mean by news-subs?

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

These improvements don't mean we shouldn't attempt to control our use of technology.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

We might use the word "negative" to describe more difficult emotions but it doesn't mean those emotions are bad or we shouldn't have them.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Also I'm not going to ask you what words mean.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 語法填空 原文

Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 完形填空 原文

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Both locally and globally, the continued spread of full-sun coffee plantations (種植園) could mean the destruction of the rainforest ecology.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

But we're never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more.

2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

By the time these "solutions" become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means.

2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 單項填空 原文

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

2016年高考英語上海卷 完形填空 原文

English is a dynamic language that admits new words and recognizes changes in meaning, spelling, and usage of familiar words.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 任務(wù)型讀寫 原文

Food can also have a specific meaning, and play a significant role in a family or culture's celebrations or traditions.

2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

For example, when I'm writing a textbook, it has become second nature to check a dozen definitions of a key term, which helps me dig into the core and understand its meaning.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 任務(wù)型閱讀 原文

For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

2017年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

He was an international grandmaster, which meant I wound be learning from one of the game's best.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文

His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect other students.

2016年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

How different is our mean-spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little scrap of "understanding" that can be dug out of a book.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

I didn't mean to eat anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn't help trying it.

2018年高考英語天津卷 單項填空 原文

I mean, I don't see that much of them now as it is.

2017年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

I picked up the stem cells in providence, rhode island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London.

2016年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

I think it would be satisfaction of enjoying things with others, meaning when you give it to others, whether it's time, attention, a gift, anything, just those moments of sharing.

2016年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文

Identify other means of the breakdown.

2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項

If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome.

2016年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

2015年高考英語上海卷 完形填空 原文

In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀表達 原文

In his modernist view, beauty lies in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create solutions to problems through the most efficient means.

2016年高考英語上海卷 選詞填空 原文

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

It meant a happy and loving family.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 完形填空 原文

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Like many things in life, it's an ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement, which means you'll just keep getting better and better.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 語法填空 原文

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him: he meant business.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文

Mean taking some risks, so your brain raisers your tolerance for risk as well.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Seeing the positive side of things doesn't mean you're ignoring what happened.

2015年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 選項

Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way---that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Songs in their heads: music and its meaning in children's lives.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項

Songs in their heads:music and its meaning in children's lives.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Success means getting personal desires satisfied.

2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項

Success, then, means never feeling tired.

2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

That means 350 dollars for seven people.

2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文

That means a transparent object doesn't look very different from the surrounding air or water.

2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

That meant beating out Miller king, who was the best player at our school.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 完形填空 原文

That routine meant dad was home early to spend the evening with mum and me.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 完形填空 原文

The cow was their only means of support, in fact.

2015年高考英語廣東卷 語法填空 原文

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.

2017年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

The language was simple, so simple I could plainly understand its meaning, yet it was still beautiful.

2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The line segment goes up between Day 1 and Day 2, which means that the bird flew farther on Day 2.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

The meaning of silence varies among cultural groups.

2016年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

The means and expenses of students' communication.

2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項

The median number(中位數(shù)) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

The underlined word "sharp" probably means clear and definite.

2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項

Then came my tweens and teens, and mean girls and cool kids.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life.

2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 短文填空 原文

These innovative solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.

2015年高考英語上海卷 選詞填空 原文

They think tradition means old things from the past.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 完形填空 原文

Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Tina stern received rides from Wilson for all her four years in college, and the trips meant much more to her than just free transportation.

2019年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets.

2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal meant me no real harm.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Wang's winning of the prize means that Chinese architects are getting international recognition.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設(shè)

Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes.

2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Whoever patty was, she was a mean girl.

2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

You don't mean you're going to read every word, do you?

2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 原文

You mean I should keep these useless things at home?

2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文

Zac knows the meaning of a purple heart—he earned one himself in a war as a soldier.

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowingly positive.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

出自-2014年考研翻譯原文

I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music.

出自-2014年考研翻譯原文

Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

出自-2014年考研翻譯原文

Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest.

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

But the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood.

出自-2018年考研翻譯原文

Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain's National Health Service and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But that doesn't mean crucial ethical issues involving AI aren't at hand.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention—so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

2019年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Prior knowledge and interests influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

2013年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Tronick believes that just because a child isn't learning from the screen doesn't mean there's no value to it -- particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.

2017年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

What Washington does – or doesn't do – to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

Verb
  • 1. mean or intend to express or convey;

    "You never understand what I mean!"

    "what do his words intend?"

  • 2. have as a logical consequence;

    "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

  • 3. denote or connote;

    "`maison' means `house' in French"

    "An example sentence would show what this word means"

  • 4. have in mind as a purpose;

    "I mean no harm"

    "I only meant to help you"

    "She didn't think to harm me"

    "We thought to return early that night"

  • 5. have a specified degree of importance;

    "My ex-husband means nothing to me"

    "Happiness means everything"

  • 6. intend to refer to;

    "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"

    "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

  • 7. destine or designate for a certain purpose;

    "These flowers were meant for you"

Adjective
  • 1. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value;

    "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"

    "of average height for his age"

    "the mean annual rainfall"

  • 2. characterized by malice;

    "a hateful thing to do"

    "in a mean mood"

  • 3. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

    "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke

    "taking a mean advantage"

    "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare

    "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

  • 4. excellent;

    "famous for a mean backhand"

  • 5. marked by poverty befitting a beggar;

    "a beggarly existence in the slums"

    "a mean hut"

  • 6. used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity;

    "a mean person"

    "he left a miserly tip"

  • 7. used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt

同義詞辨析

intend, mean

這兩個動詞均有"想要,打算"之意。

  • intend: 較正式用詞,但常用,指對未來的行動做出打算,并力爭實現(xiàn)。
  • mean: 口語多用,指懷有作某事的想法或希望得到某物,特別用于效果不好而動機良好的場合。

low, mean, cheap, shabby

這些形容詞均有"卑鄙的,卑賤的,卑下的"之意。

  • low: 指行為卑鄙、可恥、下文明,可引申指庸俗。
  • mean: 暗示狠毒、貪婪、缺乏尊嚴感等為人們所不恥的卑鄙、自私、渺小的行為。
  • cheap: 側(cè)旨人或物的品質(zhì)低劣下賤。
  • shabby: 指行為的不公和卑劣而使人感到不屑和輕蔑。

mean, imply, indicate, represent, denote, signify, suggest

這些動詞均含有"表示……的意思"之意。

  • mean: 最普通用詞。指文字或符號等所表示的各種明確的或含蓄的意義。
  • imply: 側(cè)重用文字或符號表示的聯(lián)想,暗示。
  • indicate: 指明顯的表示。
  • represent: 指體現(xiàn)或代表。
  • denote: 指某一詞字面或狹義的意思,或指某些符號或跡象的特指含義。
  • signify: 指用文字、說話或表情等表示單純的意思。
  • suggest: 通常指暗含地、隱晦地表達意思。

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