If we value something not as a means to something else, but for its own sake, let us say that it has "intrinsic value".

如果我们重视某物不是因为把它看作达成其他目标的手段，而是因为它本身，我们就说它有“内在价值”。

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It can be pretty tiring though, and it means you're out of the office a lot in the autumn and the spring, so we try to share the work between the three of us.

不过这确实很累，它意味着你春天和秋天的大多数时间都不在办公室工作。因此，我们尽量三个人一起分担工作。

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To most of us, music means something; it evokes some response.

对我们大多数人来说，音乐是有意义的；它引起了一些反应。

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He spoke to us about the finding. "It really means that the planet is more active than we thought,and more active and that can be geologically or maybe even biologically."

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It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

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But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

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Alvin Hall joins us from our London bureau to break it down for us and explain what it means for all of us.

NPR: Expert Helps Makes Sense of Stimulus Package

That's part of what it means for us to be able to build an economy that lasts.

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And he will push on with his transformative change even if it means that US forces are forced to leave Afghanistan and Iraq in defeat.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Barreling on, regardless