"I'm very sorry you've been annoyed," said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
“有人让你不高兴了，我很难过。”爱丽丝回答道，她开始明白它的意思了。
In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the same gesture, physically, but its meaning differs sharply.
在上面的两个例子中，来自两种不同文化的人在肢体上有着相同的姿势，但这些姿势的含义大有不同。
A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message, or the action, or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance.
高语境文化是指信息、行动或事件的语境承载了其大部分意义和重要性的文化。
In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.
在一个根本不关心你的生活及生活意义的工作场所，办公室用语可以帮助你理清你与工作的关系，以及理清工作定义你身份的方式。
We should create situations to guess its meaning.
我们应该创造条件来猜测其含义。
It includes four steps: seeing a word, getting back its meaning from your memory, connecting it to other words in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word. This process uses many parts of the brain at one time.
它包括四个步骤：看到一个单词，回忆这个词的意思，将它与句子中其他单词联系起来，再看下一个单词。这个过程同时调动了大脑的很多部分进行工作。
Where exactly does its meaning lie?
意义到底何在？
What is it saying? What is its meaning?
这首诗在说什么呢？它是什么意思？
至少能指教我它的含意吧?
互惠的涵义是模糊的。
Is its meaning the same as in earlier periods?
其含义是与其早先的各个时期相同吗？
That is one of the things that gives a story its meaning.
这就是故事的意义所在。
The author friends of Norway did not understand its meaning.
挪威的作家朋友不明其意。
The term ‘100-year event’ really lost its meaning this year.
“在这种情况下，‘百年一遇’一词也失去了意义”，尤盖特说。
In the midst of these birth pains, morality loses its meaning.
在伴随出世的阵痛中道德失去了意义。
I have to pick out its meaning with the help of an English translation.
我必须借助英文的译文才把意义弄明白。
The poem was like a revleation to him when he finally got its meaning.
当他理解了这首诗的含义的时候，他好像受到了启示。
As long as its meaning is clear, a saying can be both historic and current.
只要其意清晰，一条谚语可以古今共用。
The term “platform” is clearly over-used to the point of losing its meaning.
很明显名词“平台”被过度使用了以至失去了它的原意。
We must read between lines and determine its meaning according to the contexts.
我们应该看上下文在语境中确定词义。
Once you've tried this exercise, look it up in the dictionary and confirm its meaning.
一旦你开始了这项练习，你就要查字典确定生词的意思。
It is this precision that makes it possible to manage content based on its meaning.
就是这种精确性，才使基于含义管理内容成为可能。
What’s more, like many words it changed its meaning, and in relative terms, fairly recently.
而且，和很多词一样，它的含义也发生了改变，相对而言，改变得还挺晚。
Just think of the implications: If love is simply chemicals, doesn't that change its meaning?
试想一下：如果爱情只是化学构成，它的含义不就变了吗？
Maybe the next time a Hollywood film USES the word "glocal", it will get its meaning right.
如果再次看到这个词出现在好莱坞影片里，或许就不会出现误解了。
Define what love means to you: Sometimes the word love is used so loosely it loses its meaning.
定义爱情对你意味着什么：有时候，“爱”这个词被用的太多太滥了，以至于甚至失去了它的价值。
Guess who has the longest claim on the word and its meaning. Not me and my meetings that's for sure.
猜猜是谁最早发明了这个词和它的含义。当然不是我，也不是在我开的会上发明的。
For example, if your child asks about a stop sign, you can describe the sign and explain its meaning.
例如，如果你的孩子问你关于禁行标志的事，你可以描述它的样子并解释它的意思。
Because fame emotion career can all be categorized as part of its meaning but not all of its meaning.
因为名利、感情、事业都可以变成它的意义，但都不是它的意义。
Because fame emotion career can all be categorized as part of its meaning but not all of its meaning.
因为名利、感情、事业都可以变成它的意义，但都不是它的意义。
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