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”。
However, mimicking the compensation policy of competitors for the sake of parity means neglecting the value of compensation as a means of stressing long-term performance.
然而，为了平等而模仿竞争对手的薪酬政策，意味着忽视了薪酬作为一种强调长期绩效的手段的价值。
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。
That means that they live life "energetically"—more intensively, but not for as long.
这意味着他们过着“精力充沛”的生活——更加集中，但不是为了活得长。
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。
For managers, this means that employees must have the capability of doing the job and must regard the appraisal process as valid.
"对管理者来说，这意味着，员工必须要有完成工作的能力，而且必须要认为这种评价过程是有根据的。
Market modification also means searching for increased usage among present customers or going for a different market, such as senior citizens.
市场调整还意味着要为现有客户提供更多的花样，或转向不同的市场，如中老年人市场。
Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.
专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。
"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。”
This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs.
这意味着对水本身及其供应成本收费。
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。
I desire to engage in exercise and I value exercise extrinsically, not for its own sake, but as a means to something beyond it.
我喜欢锻炼并看重其外在价值，并不是因为锻炼本身，而是把它作为达到一些目的的手段。
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。
Talking with parents about the past may enhance the development of the self-concept, for example, as well as help the child understand what it means to "remember".
例如，与父母谈论过去可以促进自我概念的发展，也可以帮助孩子理解“记住”的含义。
For thousands of years they have had to rely on catching sea mammals and fish as a means of sustenance.
数千年来，它们不得不依靠捕食海中的哺乳动物和鱼类为生。
Take "8" for example, the Chinese pronunciation of the number "8" has almost the same sound as that of the Chinese character "发[fa:]", which means making a fortune.
以“8”为例，数字“8”的中文发音与汉字“发[fɑː]”的发音几乎相同，意味着发财。
Centuries later, Marsilio Ficino similarly promoted drinking young blood as a means for the elderly to regain their youthful vigor.
几个世纪后，马西里奥·菲奇诺同样提倡饮酒，以此作为老年人恢复年轻活力的一种手段。
What this means for you as a developer is that you might have some surprises on 64-bit hardware.
作为一个开发人员，这对您意味着在64位硬件上可能会有一些意外发生。
The 22-year-old Yang thinks he did the right thing as a means of preparing himself for society.
22岁的杨扬认为，他做的事情是对的，这是一种为自己进入社会做准备的方式。
It automatically provides the design and runtime means for managing relational data as objects.
它自动提供设计和运行时方式，可将关系数据作为对象管理。
Only the critical resources should be assigned, in a proposed state, as a means of holding them for this new initiative.
在一个项目还处于被提议的状态时，一种处理资源的方法是只有关键资源应当被分配。
It could take advantage of existing context that is available to the service implementation on each request as a means for understanding the calculator state that is to be acted upon.
它可以利用每个请求的服务实现可用的现有上下文作为理解所要遵照的计算器状态的一种方法。
RUP describes testing as a means for continuously assuring quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
RUP将测试描述为一种在软件开发生命周期中不断地确保质量的方法。
Each area can been subdivided into a set of practices, the strengths in each of which we will assess as the means for understanding the organization's maturity.
每个领域可以分为一系列的实践，我们评估每个实践意味着对组织成熟度的理解。
To see this merely as a means for greedy politicians to enrich themselves would be to underestimate its significance.
仅仅把它看作贪婪政客攫取财富的一种手段，未免低估了它的影响力。
What this means for countries such as Dominica is unclear.
这对像多米尼克国这样的国家，意义不是很明显。
This tutorial demonstrates the use of the DOM Core API as a means for reading and manipulating XML data using the example of a series of orders from a commerce system.
本教程将使用取自商业系统的一系列订单例子，展示如何使用DOMCoreAPI作为读取和处理XML数据的手段。
WS-Polling can be used as a means for an endpoint to control the rate at which messages are delivered and processed by its SOAP engine.
WS - Polling可以作为一种端点控制SOAP引擎传递和处理消息速度的一方法。
I'll tell you later about what it means for me, as well as how depression and mania affect me.
我将在后文中告诉你它对于我的意义以及抑郁和躁狂是如何影响我的。
This can serve as a means for both human contributors and software agents to provide updates, the former by way of a browser form.
这种方式可以作为通过操作人员或软件代理提供更新的一种方法，前者通过浏览器表单的方式。
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