In China, nine has the similar pronunciation with the word "forever", meaning long life.
在中国，“九”与“久”谐音，寓意长寿。
There is also a room of plants which includes a special bonsai12 tree, the trunk of which happens to be shaped like the Chinese sign meaning long life.
有一间房内放着盆景，其中有一棵树很特殊，这树的树干形状正像汉字的“寿”。
He spoke for a long time but his meaning didn't really come across.
他讲了很久，但并没有人真正理解他的意思。
Before one of these workouts, the men skipped breakfast, meaning that they exercised on a completely empty stomach after a long overnight fast.
这些男人没吃早饭就进行其中一项训练了，意味着他们经过一整夜的禁食之后进行完全空腹的锻炼。
We have long mediated on the meaning of life.
长期以来，我们一直在思考人生的意义。
For example pondering a word's meaning for a long time did help its recall, but putting equivalent effort into thinking about its structure didn't help recall.
举一个例子，对于一个单词的意义进行长时间的思考有助于对它的回忆，但是我们把相同的力气花在对它结构和组成的了解上，却往往于事无补。
The strokes of traditional characters have their own rich meaning and a long history.
传统汉字的笔画有着丰富的意义和历史。
Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time.
长久以来人们都在探寻人生的意义。
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned the concept of a semantic web, a web with inbuilt meaning, long before the advent of social sites, but it is yet to become reality.
远在社交网站出现之前，万维网的发明者，蒂莫西·伯纳斯·李就首次提到语义网的概念，一个内嵌含义的网络。
It doesn't matter if you fail to catch or to understand the odd word here and there, as long as you get the 'global meaning '.
只要你抓住了全文的意思，听不清或听不懂个别词也没关系。
It didn’t look good to start – a long file of tour buses, a horde of tour guides and “a suggested path” – meaning, there most likely there’d be only one way to enjoy the park.
看起来情况不妙，一长溜的旅游巴士，一群导游和一条“建议路线”，很有可能就是在公园游玩的唯一路线。
That's fine so long as it has the same meaning.
只要是同样意思就好。
It is displayed in a long directory listing in the place of the executable flag for other users (the last character), with the same meaning for upper and lower case as for suid and sgid.
它显示在其他用户的可执行标识中(最后的字符)的长目录清单，而且suid和sgid的大小写意义相同。
It occurred between the Takoma Park and Fort Totten stations, where there is a long stretch of track, meaning trains often reach high speeds.
事发地点位于Takoma公园站和Totten堡站之间，该段地铁线路较长，这就意味着在该段线路间行驶的列车常常是高速运行的。
But Mr Bashir has long since emptied the process of meaning.
但是Bashir先生很久以前就掏空了该进程的意义。
Unfortunately, when you write for long periods of time, you end up writing drivel, meaning you have to spend more time rewriting your idea until it's coherent.
不幸的是，当你写了很长时间时，你会开始胡言乱语，这意味着你必须花更多的时间重新写下你的想法直到它变得有条理。
As long as you can keep the world guessing, the more people will be pumping for meaning, and the more mystique this movement will have.
只要能让这个世界继续猜测下去，只要越来越多的人开始搜寻这场运动的意义，它就会变得越来越神秘。
One difficulty: Monkeys live almost 30 years on average, meaning any study to measure a difference in death rates would need to wait a long time.
但此类研究面临着一个困难：猴子平均可以活将近30年，这意味着任何衡量寿命差别的研究都需要等待很长时间。
The JFFS2 filesystem is log-structured, meaning that it is basically a long list of nodes.
JFFS2文件系统是日志结构化的，这意味着它基本上是一长列节点。
It was also the largest negative anomaly, meaning difference below the long-term average, on record for any month.
它也是有记录以来任何一个月中最大的负异常，指的是低于长期平均值的差分。
Industries such as cement and other building materials are usually considered "territorial goods", meaning they are bulky, basic and too expensive to transport long distances.
像水泥和其他建筑材料这样的行业，通常被认为是“地域性商品”，意味着庞大，普通，长途运输成本太高。
He said this study was designed to understand how changes in long-term emotional states - meaning, whether you consider yourself a happy or sad person overall - are affected by the people you know.
他表示，该研究的目的是为了了解人们的心境如何受到周围人的影响。这里的心境是指一个人大体上的情绪状态，是开心愉悦还是闷闷不乐。
This overhang holds down prices, meaning that the road out of negative equity is a long one.
过量的供给压低了房价，这意味着解决负资产问题需要一段很长的时间。
Its value appears to be overestimated based on its historical performance, meaning that investors should be prepared to hold its stock for the long-term.
就其历史业绩表现来说，该公司的价值有点被高估，这意味着投资者需要进行长期投资了。
Maine's legendary Allagash, the river that taught Henry David Thoreau the meaning of wilderness, has long been Mired in controversy over Bridges and additional access points in its protected corridor.
缅因州传奇故事中的阿拉加什河让亨利·戴维•梭罗思考荒芜之地的意义。长期以来，这条河流保护的狭长地带的桥梁和额外的通道口一直陷于辩论的困境当中。
The long passage that connects the two wings of IBM's headquarters in Armonk gives a new meaning to the expression "a walk down memory lane".
位于阿曼克的IBM总部，连接大楼两翼长长的通道给“走过记忆长廊”这句话赋予了新的含意。
I doubt it was the scenery, but sometimes when we spend too long looking at the same things; they lose their meaning.
我怀疑这到底是不是环境的问题。不过我们盯着相同的东西看得久了也确实会审美疲劳。
The Earth may exist in an underpopulated portion of the Milky Way, meaning we might not encounter another alien intelligence for a long, long time, if at all.
也许，地球所在之处是银河系的犄角旮旯，如果真是这样，我们在短期内不太可能与其他外星智慧生命有接触。
The Earth may exist in an underpopulated portion of the Milky Way, meaning we might not encounter another alien intelligence for a long, long time, if at all.
也许，地球所在之处是银河系的犄角旮旯，如果真是这样，我们在短期内不太可能与其他外星智慧生命有接触。
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