That really wasn't meant to be hard, but what's relevant about this exercise is not the fact that it's hard.

这应该并不难,与此相关的东西,事实上并不难

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is meant to be summer, but you can see it's not.

现在应该是夏天，但是你可以看出来这不是。

关于伦敦的天气 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's written not to one place,but it's a circular letter, meant to be circulated around.

它不是写给一个人的，而是传单通知，给大家四处传阅。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now I would like to read to you from the footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, that for many people embodied at the time what it meant to be engaged in this new literary project.

现在我再给你们读一段《嚎叫》的脚注，这是艾伦金斯堡的著名诗歌，对于很多当时的人来说,参与这项新文学事业意义深远。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选