Instrumental ties predominate in secondary groups; we perceive people as means to ends rather than as ends in their own right.
工具性关系在次级群体中占主导地位；我们把人当作达成目的的手段，而不是目的本身。
Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.
生产和消费只能作为达到这一目的的手段，而且要防止它们控制了人类。
Treat money the way it was meant to – as means to existence rather than the ultimate source of happiness and joy.
把钱看成是维持生存的工具吧，而不是能带来快乐和幸福的源泉。
Companies usually prefer to avoid wild swings in their sales and profits, so they seek out foreign markets as means to this end.
为尽量避免销售量和利润的剧烈波动，公司通常会寻找海外市场作为防止这种情况出现的措施。
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。
Across the developed world, car use is in decline as more people move to city centres, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.
在发达国家，随着越来越多的人搬到城市中心，汽车使用量正在下降，而年轻人更倾向于选择其他出行方式。
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”。
Less vegetation means the soil can't hold water as well; the soil loses its ability to retain water when it does rain.
更少的植被意味着土壤也无法保持水分；下雨时土壤就失去了保持水分的能力。
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.
这意味着，比如说，纽约市立大学的学生可以跟随一位有声望的教授进行学习，得到与他们在纽约大学同一个班级所得到的同等质量的教育，这种期望十分合理。
Note that this means, unlike vowels, intervening H and W characters do not act as a barrier to combining runs of letters with the same code.
请注意：这意味着，与元音不同同，插在中间的字符H和W不会对组合相同代码的字母形成障碍。
Often far away from home, we may start by keeping in contact with our parents, as a means to meet our obligations as part of our family.
通常如果离家很远的话，我们可以从与父母保持联系开始，作为家庭一份子履行家庭义务的一种方式。
Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the role of data, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory.
诸如璀璨的钻石或筑巢的鸟等现象都被归于数据的作用，成为形成或检验新理论的手段。
"By all means, reach out to your social network, but as you cast a wide net looking for job prospects, be conscious of every email you send," Fay suggests.
Fay 建议：“用一切方法接触你的社交网络，但是，在你广撒网找工作机会的时候，也要注意你发出的每封邮件。”
It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
这是利用电视作为劝导方式的一个实例。
Amphons city council wants to introduce cremation that is burning the dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problem.
安丰市议会想要采用火葬的方法，将尸体焚烧作为处理这一问题的一种方式。
Only flush the toilet when necessary: this means to not use the toilet as a garbage to avoid wasting water.
只在必要时冲厕所：这意味着不要把厕所当作垃圾桶使用以避免浪费水。
If he is Indian as you say, whatever that means, and if he is back here to stay this time and if he tells me that himself, I'll let it go.
如果他像你说的那样是印第安人，不管那是什么意思，如果他这次回来是要住下来，如果他自己亲口告诉我，我就不追究了。
The special fare systems on the airlines' computers encourage more people to fly on less popular flights, and this means that as a result all flights are equally full.
航空公司电脑上的特殊票务系统鼓励更多的人乘坐不那么受欢迎的航班，这意味着结果所有航班的客流量都是一样的。
In 1963, the Finnish Parliament made the bold decision to choose public education as the best means of driving the economy forward and out of recession.
在1963年，芬兰议会做出了一个大胆的决定：选择公共教育作为推动经济向前发展和走出经济衰退的最佳手段。
We need to use it as carefully and as productively as we can, that means prioritising our activities so that we spend most time on the things we really want to do.
我们要尽可能谨慎和有效地利用时间，这意味着要确定活动的优先次序，以便将大部分时间花在我们真正想要做的事情上。
The renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.
人们对腰围的重新关注意味着行业组织面临着压力，要证明其产品既健康又美味。
Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.
尽管如此，人们对腰围的重新关注意味着，行业集团面临着压力，需要证明其产品不但美味，而且健康。
That means I just want to act as myself.
这意味着我只想做我自己。
This means sidelining corporate cluck-cluckers such as lawyers who worry that any admission of guilt will lead to lawsuits.
这意味着公司里的杞人忧天者，例如律师这样担心承认任何过失都可能导致法律诉讼，要靠边了。
The growing power of the elite, who controlled the economy, would give them the means to physically coerce people to move to Teotihuacán and serve as additions to the labor force.
控制着经济的精英阶层力量不断增强，这将使他们能够强迫人们搬到特奥蒂瓦坎，作为劳动力的补充。
Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.
世界语是一种人造语言，目的是充当国际上不同语言使用者之间交流的辅助手段。
One result of his research is known as the total time hypothesis, which simply means the amount you learn depends on the time you spend trying to learn it.
他的一项研究成果被称为“总时间假说”，即你学习的总量取决于你花在尝试学习它上的时间。
Graphics are included not merely as a means of making the information easier for the student to grasp, but as an integral part of the way social scientists think.
加入图形不仅是让学生更容易掌握信息的手段，也是社会科学家思考方式的一个组成部分。
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.
把时间看作是一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你功利性地对待它，认为任何特定的时刻都应该充分利用起来以使其朝着某一既定目标迈进。
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.
把时间看作是一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你功利性地对待它，认为任何特定的时刻都应该充分利用起来以使其朝着某一既定目标迈进。
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