Judging from the way he laughed as he told it, it was meant to be humorous.

从他讲述时笑的方式看来，那是为逗人发笑。

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IT WAS meant to be the beginning of the end.

但愿这是意味着结束的开始。

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That's because it was meant to be the hardest problem on that test.

因为这是考试中最难的那一题了。

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In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

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It was an event that was really meant to be a kind of coronation of Claude Levi-Strauss, whose work had burst upon the American scene only a few years earlier.

这个会议其实可以看做是,列维斯特劳斯加冕礼，他的作品在会议前几年刚刚传入美国。

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It looks like it was a circular letter meant to be circulated to different churches.

它看起来像是一份通函,由各教会传阅。

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