英语释义

1. to have in the mind as a purpose intend
she means to win —sometimes used interjectionally with I, chiefly in informal speech for emphasis
he throws, I mean, hard or to introduce a phrase restating the point of a preceding phrase
we try to answer what we can, but I mean we're not God
— Bobbie Ann Mason

2. to design for or destine to a specified purpose or future
I was meant to teach

3. to serve or intend to convey, show, or indicate signify
a red sky means rain

4. to have importance to the degree of
health means everything

5. to direct to a particular individual
His criticism was meant for all of us.

6. to have an intended purpose
he means well

7. to be in earnest

8. lacking distinction or eminence humble

9. lacking in mental discrimination dull

10. of poor, shabby, or inferior quality or status
mean city streets

11. worthy of little regard contemptible —often used in negative constructions as a term of praise
no mean feat

12. lacking dignity or honor base
a mean motive

13. penurious, stingy
He's very mean with his money.

14. characterized by petty selfishness or malice
a mean surly man

15. causing trouble or bother vexatious
a mean soil to work

16. excellent, effective
plays a mean trumpet a lean, mean athlete

17. ashamed sense 1b
His ready cooperation made me feel mean for what I had said.

18. occupying a middle position intermediate in space, order, time, kind, or degree

19. occupying a position about midway between extremes especially being the mean of a set of values average
the mean temperature

20. serving as a means intermediary

21. something intervening or intermediate

22. a middle point between extremes

23. a value that lies within a range of values and is computed according to a prescribed law: such as

24. arithmetic mean

25. expected value

26. either of the middle two terms of a proportion

27. something useful or helpful to a desired end

28. resources available for disposal especially material resources affording a secure life

29. most assuredly certainly

30. through the use of

31. in no way not at all

32. to have (a particular meaning)

33. to want or intend to express (a particular idea or meaning)

34. to have (something) in your mind as a purpose or goal

35. a middle point between two things

36. to represent or have as a definite explanation or idea
What does this word mean?

37. to be an indication of
Those clouds mean rain.

38. to have in mind as a purpose
He meant to be funny.

39. to intend for a particular use
It's a book meant for children.

40. to have importance to
His visit meant a lot to me.

41. deliberately unkind
That was a mean trick.

42. stingy sense 1

43. low in quality, worth, or dignity
That was no mean achievement.

44. excellent
He plays a mean guitar.

45. occurring or being in a middle position average
The mean temperature for June was 70 degrees.

46. a middle point or something (as a place, time, number, or rate) that falls at or near a middle point moderation

47. arithmetic mean

48. something that helps a person to get what he or she wants
Use every means you can think of to find it.

49. wealth sense 1
A person of means doesn't worry about money.

50. certainly sense 1

51. in any way
I was not a good student by any means.

52. certainly not

英汉例句

• unlike other digital products, the visible part of software usually makes no significant use of photography by means of communication design.

  与许多的数字产品不同，桌面软件的可见部分中并不会使用很多的图片来传达信息。

• it is also possible, by means of modeling, to define and describe the interactions among these capabilities, including precedence and dependency relationships.

  通过建模来定义并描述这些能力之间的相互作用也是可行的，包括先后次序和依赖关系。

• it reduces risks by means of automated testing.

  它以自动测试的方法降低了风险。

• similarly, some firms have started to experiment with 「virtual water-coolers」, connecting their office kitchens by means of a permanent video link.

  同样，一些公司也开始尝试「虚拟水冷器」，通过一个永久视频链接的方式将办公室厨房连接在一起。

• while enumeration can be useful, it is often more convenient to express join points by means of structural properties.

  虽然枚举可能很有用，但是用结构化属性的方式表示连接点通常更方便。

• this is the desk by means of which he jumped over the wall.

  这就是他用来跳过墻去的那张桌子。

• even now stories are told of local witchdoctorsor or bokor who were controlling people by means of a psycho drugs.

  即使在现在，仍旧有传说称是当地的巫医利用精神药物来控制人。

• by means of a sophisticated interfacing device, a human telepathically 「drives」 this avatar body, allowing him to experience pandora just as the na「vi do.

  在先进设备的帮助下，人类利用心灵感应「激活」了这个化身，让他像纳美人一样能适应潘多拉的环境。

• in fact, doctors have even greater access towhat’s going on in your brain than you do, by means of medical imaging!

  实际上，医生们有更高明的手段，通过医学成像可以知道你的脑子里在做些什么。

• link the business model to the system model by means of dependencies between the system use case realizations and the business use case realizations.

  利用系统用例实现和业务用例实现间的依赖性将业务模型与系统模型连接起来。

• the name arises because the particles interact only by means of the weak nuclear force.

  其名字的得来是因为它们之间的作用力仅为弱核力。

• the rmc tool will not solve all these problems. but it will make the job of starting such an effort easier by means of plug-in re-use and method content organization.

  rmc工具不能解决所有这些问题，但是通过插件重用和方法内容组织等手段，它可以使得工作的起步阶段变得更加简易。

• it provides an easy way to achieve critical functional and non-functional requirements, without requiring programming or any change to service implementation code by means of qualifiers.

  它提供一种简单的方法来实现关键功能和非功能性需求，不需要编程，也不需要使用限定符 对服务实现代码进行修改。

• typically, a plug-in focuses on a specific area of responsibility and delegates the rest to others by means of one or more extension points.

  通常，插件专注于特定区域的责任，并通过一个或多个扩展点的方式将其他责任指派给其他插件。

• therefore, this article describes how process creation can be programmatically monitored and controlled on a system-wide basis by means of hooking the native api.

  因此，本文将描述如何通过钩住本机api的方式来实现监控一个进程的创建并在系统级上对之进行控制。

• you can」t place to a yard by means of shoulder and arm energy alone.

  你不能独自用肩和臂的力量将某物推进一码。

• therefore, you must distribute your custom function to your users in other ways, such as by means of a shared file system, email, download, or administrator installation.

  因此，必须采用其他方式将定制函数分发给用户，例如通过共享的文件系统、电子邮件、下载或管理员安装。

• thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means of the persuasive arguments suitable to the case in question.

  第三，当我们能够用适当的说服性论证的方法证明真相或明显的真相时，说服通过讲话本身起作用。

• italians can buy football games and films by means of cards, much as they might top up a mobile phone.

  尽管意大利人可用充满值的手机娱乐消遣，但也会用智能卡付费观看足球赛及电影。

• it is understandable that all the above steps are taken by means of calling certain native api functions.

  上面所有的步骤都可以通过调用某些本机api函数的方式来实现，这是可以理解的。

• so in each area of our live where we are dependent on others services and help, that thing we can make much better by means of social collaboration.

  因此，在我们生活的每个区域中，我们可以依靠其他服务和帮助，通过社会协作可以把事情做得更好。

• one company has presented an idea in which metal strips inserted in pavements and roads operate fly wheels by means of a piston action using hydraulic fluid.

  一个公司提出这样想法：嵌在人行道和路面上的金属条用液压活塞的作用使飞轮转动。

• in the language of common life we mean by objective what exists outside of us and reaches us from without by means of sensation.

  所谓客观在日常生活习用的语言中，大都是指存在于我们之外的事物，并从外面通过我们的知觉而达到的事物。

• these configuration files are not directly manipulated by the user but are updated by means of the db2 gui tools or command line utilities.

  这些配置文件不是直接由用户操纵的，而是通过db2gui工具或命令行实用程序的方式进行更新。

• however, it does not define how the use case is realized internally by the system, but how it is realized externally by means of its user interface.

  但是，它并没有定义用例如何通过系统被内在的实现，而是定义了用例如何通过其用户接口被外在的实现。

• most typically, you interact with cgi applications by means of an html form.

  最通常的情况下，您会通过html表单与cgi应用程序进行交互。

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