It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.
VOA: special.2009.05.10
Justice seems to mean adhering to the principal, justice in the city, adhering to the principal of division of labor.
正义似乎意味着谨守本份,城中正义,谨守着劳动区分的主要原则。
However it can also be used to mean an expression of sympathy.
然而,它也可以用来表达同情的感受。
I knew he did not understand, but like me,he took it to mean that I meant no harm.
VOA: special.2010.07.17
while plainly we can understand it simply to mean preconception which is inescapable nevertheless can still be bad.
尽管我们知道它的意思是,不可避免的先入为主的看法,可能是不好的。
Now,people use the expression to mean to prepare for dealing with any kind of trouble.
VOA: special.2009.05.24
I take good to mean good. Consequently, if you were to write a good paper for me, B that would get a B.
我认为好就是好,如此一来,如果你给我写了篇好论文,就会拿。
But she says fixing the government does not have to mean making it the enemy.
VOA: special.2010.03.06
That's what I take the Elder Brother to mean here.
我认为戏中的哥哥是这个意思。
One story is that the word was used to mean poor farmers or uneducated people.
VOA: special.2009.08.09
In later levels of Hebrew it will start to mean that wind But it is really "wind," ruah is wind.
但是在后来的希伯来语中它便有这个意思,事实上它是指“风“,ruah是指气。
He says John Fitz Gerald, a writer for a New York newspaper, used the name The Big Apple to mean New York in the nineteen twenties.
VOA: special.2009.12.27
We use the term element to mean the lowest value.
我们说基本值,意味着是最小值。
Eighty-six has also been used in popular culture to mean dismiss or even kill.
VOA: special.2010.01.08
But we take it to mean holy writing,sacred writing.
是我们把它扩展到神圣著作的意思。
Elizabeth Custer believed the name changed over time to mean the soldiers themselves.
VOA: special.2010.03.07
He accepts the view that justice is giving to each what is owed, but he interprets this to mean that justice means doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.
他接受,正义是给予每个人其所应得的观点,但他的诠译是,将正义定义为善待你的朋友,严惩你的敌人。
In nineteenth century England, the expression came to mean an undependable statement.
VOA: special.2010.10.31
So one more piece of notation, I'm going to write "s-i" to mean what?
-i是什么意思呢
Today,many groups use the word to mean a life-threatening emergency.
VOA: special.2010.04.18
It can be used to mean one or two things.
这个句型可以用来表达一两件事。
The word itself came to mean death and destruction.
VOA: special.2009.09.03
Yes. And people use that phrase, too, to mean "to die," don't they?
是的,人们也使用这个词,表示“去死“,是吗?
It has come to mean "take this medicine."
VOA: special.2009.03.22
They sort of seemed--even though they didn't say anything, when we were talking to them, when they were sort of pleased, we took that to mean that that was what they were doing.
他们看上去似乎-尽管他们不会说任何事情,在我们向他们阐述的时候,当他们有点高兴的时候,我们将之理解为我们做的就是他们当时正在做的。
The name came to mean several things.
VOA: special.2010.03.07
First, let's talk about malnutrition. Now usually that concept gets used to talk about too little nutrition, but in fact, if you consider mal to mean poor rather than too little, and poor nutrition can really get manifested as under-nutrition, over-nutrition, or just unhealthy eating in general.
我们首先谈谈营养不良,现在我们通常把这个概念视同于缺乏营养,但实际上理解为"不好的",比"不足"更为恰当,一般而言,不好的营养可以被理解为,营养不足,营养过剩,或者仅仅是指不健康的饮食
"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.
VOA: standard.2010.01.16
How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?
我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生?
I've read through the same thing twenty times and I've missed something obvious. Someone who's never seen it before looks at and says, did you really mean to do this?
但是它们有一双旁观者之眼,我把同一段代码读上20遍,都会漏掉一些很明显的错误,从没看过这段代码的人会告诉我?
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