means

• n. 手段；方法；财产
• v. 意思是；打算（mean的第三人称单数） [ 复数means ]

来自mean,中间的。后形容词做名词，引申词义调解人，调停人，有影响力的人，最终用于指方式，方法，并引申词义钱财，财富。

1. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved;

"a means of control"

"an example is the best agency of instruction"

"the true way to success"

2. instrumentality used to achieve an end

3. considerable capital (wealth or income);

"he is a man of means"

means (n.)

"course of action," late 14c., from mean (n.); sense of "wealth" is first recorded c. 1600. Compare French moyens, German Mittel. Phrase by no means attested from late 15c.; means-test is from 1930.

manner, method, way, mode, fashion, means, approach

这些名词均含"方法，方式"之意。

manner： 多指行动的特殊方式或独特的方法。

method： 指有系统、有条理地办事或解决问题的方法。

way： 普通用词，可指一般的方法，有时也指个人的方法或方式，也可指特殊的方式或方法。

mode： 书面用词，常指因个人爱好或传统习俗等因素而遵循的方法。

fashion： 着重独特的程序或方式，尤指个人的偏爱或习惯。

means： 指为达到某种目的或目标而采用的方法、手段或途径。

approach： 指从事某事的特别方法、途径。

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

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

And so all this means more traffic jams on the road.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Beyond gender, young adults' living arrangements differ considerably by education—which is tied to financial means.

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Even if they could, Simpli Safe 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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I'm self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

It just means that I'll need to change my ticket.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

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'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.

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

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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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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That means an extra five hours a day.

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

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That means depending on packaged food with high salt and sugar content.

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That means students are asked to use their individual experience to come up with answers to general questions.

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That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.

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That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

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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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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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The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

The article says many people tend to assume that innovation just means creating something new, but actually it's more than that.

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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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The word "culture" comes the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".

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This connection happens not only by means of collaborative development, review and testing, but also at conferences where faculty regularly decide on their textbooks and curricula for the coming year.

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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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This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.

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

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.

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Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.

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He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means

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This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

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Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy

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The predicted global population growth means that ways have to be found to produce more food with finite resources.

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According to social learning theories, social interaction is a means by which people acquire attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities

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Which means that a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column.

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For all of these reasons, some colleges like Hartwick are rethinking the old way of doing things and questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

It is by no means certain that the settlement will be enacted (执行) – it is the subject of afairness hearing in the US courts.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Business leadership means that managers need to "put first things first," which implies that before leading others, you need to be clear on your own values, abilities, and strengths and be seen as trustworthy

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of "real world" education—which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today.

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That means wolves in the suburbs of New York.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

If someone has a great sense of humor, were a son, it means that they are happy, socially confident and have a healthy perspective on life

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The other's portrayal of Muir's life is a testimony to what it means to be lifelong learners and to use that learning to inform and bring about change

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The means they use to get information.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope,' Doctor Snyder said, 'Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

EL POPOLA CHINIO, which means from people's China, it's a monthly magazine in Esperanto and it is read worldwide

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"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) perfor

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Across the developed world, ear use is in decline as more people move to city centers, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.

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And "doing well" means your earnings are rising.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their devices more and more inaccessible.

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As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.

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Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.

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living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don't have secure water supplies to drink.

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Many successful virtual companies provide digital services, such as financial transactions, in the case of PayPal, or means of communication, as Skype does.

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Ruel says that means the productivity of a nation's future generations depends in a large part on the first 1, 000 days of life.

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That means concentrating on the direction of your life in general and your own academic performance specifically.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

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

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That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

That means when a golfer tells himself "Don't hit the ball into the water", his mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water.

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That person then drinks from the cup and raises it high, saying "Harambee!" which means "Let's all pull together!" All repeat "Harambee!" seven times and each person drinks from the cup.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

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.

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

The extreme isolation of these massive farms leaves them often unattended, and monitored only once or twice a year, which means if the livestock falls ill or requires assistance, it can be a long time for farmers to discover.

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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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They include photos repurposed for inappropriate or illegal means, identity theft, embarrassment, bullying by peers or digital kidnapping.

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This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) performer, who isn't regularly employed every single day working on projects.

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This means an unprecedented number of people are surviving longer in conditions requiring expert support.

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This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

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This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

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This means that they have no foundations.

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This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

This means they are paid the lowest legal wage and receive no health care or other benefits provided to full-time employee.

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This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Yet it is worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what "doing well" means in facts and figures?

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

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

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 单项填空 原文

Identify other means of the breakdown.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 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年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 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年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 语法填空 原文

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年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Success means getting personal desires satisfied.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Success, then, means never feeling tired.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

That means 350 dollars for seven people.

2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

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

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The means and expenses of students' communication.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

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

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 短文填空 原文

They think tradition means old things from the past.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very tricky, particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting.

2020年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Fourth, electronic means of payment may raise security and privacy concerns.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

If we readjust our view of arguments—from a verbal fight or tennis game to a reasoned exchange through which we all gain mutual respect, and understanding—then we change the very nature of what it means to "win" an argument.

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

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

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Mies' signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The fact that this is not an uncommon occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and steal from someone else's accounts.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This means that a DNA database may have a lot of data from some regions and not others, so a person's test results may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This means that people should avoid crisping their roast potatoes, spurn thin-crust pizzas and only easily toast their bread.

2020年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Television is an effective means of communication.

电视是一种有效的通信手段。

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Is there any means of contacting him?

有没有什么办法和他取得联系？

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Have you any means of identification ?

你有没有任何身份证件？

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We needed to get to London but we had no means of transport .

我们需要赶往伦敦，但却没有任何交通工具。

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People should pay according to their means .

人们应该按照各自的负担能力来消费。

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He doesn't have the means to support a wife and child.

他无钱养活妻小。

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Private school fees are beyond the means of most people (= more than they can afford).

私立学校的费用是大多数人无力支付的。

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Are the monthly repayments within your means (= can you afford them) ?

这样按月还钱，你能承受得了吗？

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Try to live within your means (= not spend more money than you have).

要尽可能量入为出。

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a man of means (= a rich man)

有钱人

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‘Do you mind if I have a look? ’ ‘By all means. ’

“我看一眼行吗？”“当然可以。”

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The load was lifted by means of a crane.

重物是用起重机吊起来的。

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She is by no means an inexperienced teacher.

她绝不是个毫无经验的教师。

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We haven't won yet, not by any means.

我们离成功还远着呢。

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He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.

他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。

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The move is a means to fight crime...

采取这项举措是为了打击犯罪。

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The army had perfected the use of terror as a means of controlling the population...

军队已经深谙利用恐怖手段控制民众之道。

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...a person of means...

富人

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He did not have the means to compensate her.

他没有钱来补偿她。

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The more gifts she received, the more she craved, until he was living beyond his means...

得到的礼物越多，她的胃口就越大，直到他捉襟见肘为止。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It is far better to pay off old debts steadily by living within your means.

量入为出地一步步偿还旧债，这个方法要好得多。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This is a two year course taught by means of lectures and seminars...

本课程为期两年，授课形式为讲座与研讨。

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The trailer was connected to the car by means of a complicated system of hoses, pipes and rods.

活动房屋通过一系列复杂的软管、管道和连杆与汽车相连。

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'Can I come and have a look at your house?' — 'Yes by all means'.

“我可以过来看看你的房子吗？”“当然可以。”

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This is by no means out of the ordinary...

这丝毫不足为奇。

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They were not finished, however, not by any means.

不过，他们并没有结束,绝对没有。

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We seem to have lost sight of the fact that marketing is only a means to an end.

我们似乎忽略了这样一个事实：营销只是达到目的的手段。

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