"I used to have a lot of expectations about what that meant and what it was for.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

I think it's people talking without giving a moment's thought to what they meant when they said it.

我觉得人们在这么说的时候,并没有好好地思考过。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, um, I knew that Brown was an Ivy League school, so that meant it was a very good school.

我知道布朗大学是常春藤联盟中的一员，这表明布朗大学一定是一所非常顶尖的学校。

想进布朗的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"If I could get done what I think needs to get done in four years, even if it meant that I was only president for four years, I would rather be a good president taking on the tough issues for four years, than a mediocre president for eight years,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

By "difficult," it is meant, I think, well, first of all that it is in some sense set apart from common speech, as a specialized and highly self-conscious use of language.

艰深“的意思，我认为，首先，某种程度上它是和平时谈话有所不同的，专业性极强，对语言运用自知也很高。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She tested it, shivering. I am meant to remember.

她颤抖着尝试过，我应该还记得。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Could I say that? It's meant for laypeople.

可以这么说吗？，这是本专门为普通人写的书。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

and I'm making sure that the programme is running to the time it's meant to run by,

我要保证项目要在预定的时间内开展，

制作电视节目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And it also meant that I could take whatever classes I wanted to take,

而且，这意味着我可以任意选择我想要上的课程，

想进布朗的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There's a kind of, well, masculinism in Yeats, and it's part of what I meant last time when I spoke of Yeats's anti-modernism or his reactionary modernism.

叶芝有点大男子主义，我上次提到叶芝反对,现代主义是就在指这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.

我尤其赞赏人权的观点，因为它是要构建一个全面的文化，尤其是一个全面完整的宗教，以此来寻求人类共通的地方，希望别是最低层次的共通点,否则只会是道德的失败，没有任何意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选