0 to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact -- 意思是；意味著
Give it back now! I mean it. 現在就把它還了！我是說真的。
I want you home by midnight. And I mean midnight. 我要你午夜前回家，記住是午夜。
She's kind of strange though. Do you know what I mean? 可是她有點怪。你明白我指甚麼嗎？
What do you mean by that remark? 你那句話是甚麼意思？
[ + that ] These figures mean that almost six percent of the working population is unemployed. 這些數字意味著近6%的勞動人口處於失業狀態。
What does this word mean? 這個詞是甚麼意思？
1 to have a particular result -- 意味著；結果是
[ + -ing verb ] If we want to catch the 7.30 train, that will mean leaving the house at 6.00. 如果想趕上7：30的火車，那就意味著我們要6：00從家中出發。
[ + that ] Advances in electronics mean that the technology is already available. 電子學方面的進步使這項技術已經可供人們利用。
2 to intend -- 有意，打算
You are meant to rub the medicine on the affected area, not swallow it. 你應該把藥抹在受感染部位，而不是吞服。
We were meant to have gone away this week, but Debbie's ill so we couldn't go. 這週我們本該要走，但是戴比病了，所以我們走不了。
Do you think she meant to say 9 a.m. instead of 9 p.m.? 你認為她是想說上午9點而不是晚上9點嗎？
[ + to infinitive ] I've been meaning to call you all week. 我整個星期都想著要打電話給你。
The books with large print are meant for partially sighted readers. 這些大號字體書籍是為視力有障礙的讀者而設的。
I'm sorry if I offended you - I didn't mean any harm. 如果冒犯了你我很抱歉——我並無惡意。
3 to have an important emotional effect on someone -- 對…具有意義，對…具有重大影響
4 not willing to give or share things, especially money -- 吝嗇的，小氣的
5 unkind or unpleasant -- 卑鄙的；刻薄的
She just said it to be mean. 她那麼說就是為了讓人不悅。
Stop being so mean to me! 別對我那麼刻薄！
Observation and interviews with the children and the classroom teachers were used as a means to gather data on the potentially psychological impact of singing.
In the 1920s, the school was eager to distinguish itself from the government schools as a means of attracting more pupils.
This task could be carried out entirely by means of (purely) natural-scientific (naturwissenschaftlichen) methods.
On the other hand, each form has its own unique onset and rime, which means that no form benefits from phonetic consistency.
Physically, this is because, on average, the mean shear causes larger separation between particle pairs so that larger eddies disperse them.
Their restriction to shallow marine environments suggests that photosynthesis was the primary means of organic matter production for these benthic communities.
This means that at the outset, we will deal with the context of ordinary differential equations.
The use of regression models, such as multilevel modeling, potentially provides a rigorous means of modeling variation in cost-effectiveness between centers or countries (13).
