According to ancient Chinese astronomy, the ziwei star was surrounded by 28 other stars, meaning it was the heart of the sky.
根据中国古代天文学，紫微星被其它28个星星环绕，这意味着它是天空的中心。
The spray forms a water-resistant layer, meaning it can be cleaned using only water.
喷雾能形成防水层，也就是说，只需用水就能洗净它。
The Moon's orbit is elliptical, meaning it does not follow a circular but rather an oval path.
月球的轨道是椭圆的，因此，就意味着它不是以正圆的方式环绕地球公转，而是椭圆。
This costume operates just like any other outfit, meaning it will tear up when Aya takes damage.
当阿娅受到伤害时，它就会跟其他装备一样毁坏。
Just as important, the system could "scale" - meaning it would work even as many more people used it.
同样重要的是，这个系统可以“扩展”——这表示不管有多人在使用，它都能正常工作。
The land was forced downwards in March's huge earthquake, meaning it now regularly floods at high tide.
这里经三月的大地震后陆地出现明显下沉，导致现在一涨潮就泛洪不断。
This code falls into the silent operation category, meaning it executes and provides no feedback to the user.
这一代码属于静默操作，这意味着它执行后不向用户提供任何反馈。
He points to WBRU as an example of a commercial station, meaning it earns money by selling time to advertisers.
他指出WBRU是商业电台的典范，言下之意是因为该电台通过向广告商出售广告时间来谋利。
In computer storage, the SCSI initiator is the endpoint that initiates a SCSI session, meaning it sends a SCSI command.
在计算机存储中，SCSI启动程序是启动SCSI会话的端点，这意味着它会发送scsi命令。
The EU's antitrust watchdog last month opened an extended investigation, meaning it has until early April to complete its review.
上个月，欧洲反垄断机构展开了一项深度调查，这意味着其要到明年4月初才能完成评估。
Worse yet is when approval is needed several times along the way, meaning it has to be bounced back and forth a bunch of times.
如果还需要来来回回的多次批准那就更糟糕了。
If there is no group with this name, it is created and given the multipurpose type, meaning it may be used for email or access control.
如果没有这个给定名称的组，就需要创建该组并为它提供通用类型，这意味着它可以用于电子邮件或访问控制。
Eastern China's industrial area is just about the reddest part of the map, meaning it has the highest concentration of particulates.
中国东部工业区处于地图上红色程度最深的区域，表明这里的颗粒物浓度是最高的。
Small-cell lung cancer is the more aggressive of the two, meaning it can spread quickly to other parts of the body early in the disease.
一种是小细胞肺癌，这种肺癌更具侵袭性，在早期就能扩散到其他器官。
For example, in Figure 5, the user package has an instability value of 1, meaning it has an efferent coupling of 4 and no afferent coupling.
例如，在图5中，user包的不稳定性值为1，这表示它有一个值为4的传出耦合，而没有传入耦合。
The matter we can see makes up just 17% of matter in the Universe; the remaining 83% is "dark", meaning it does not reflect or emit detectable light.
人类可见的物质只占到整个宇宙总物质的17%，剩下的83%是所谓“暗的”，意味着它们不会释出或反射可测光。
Only 5% of the information that is created is "structured", meaning it comes in a standard format of words or Numbers that can be read by computers.
仅有5%信息是以“结构化”的形式被创造出来的，这些信息以标准形式的语句或数字组织而成，并且可以为电脑所读出来。
Doctors report that about twenty million people suffer from serious headaches, and ten percent of these have intractable pain–meaning it doesn’t go away.
医生报告，大概有2千万人患有严重头痛，并且他们之中百分之十患有顽固性疼痛——那意味着疼痛不会消失。
Earlier this week it was announced that the wedding would be broadcast live on YouTube meaning it has the potential to be the most interactive event ever.
在这个星期早期，这个婚礼被宣布将在YouTube上同步播放，意味着它有可能成为有史以来最互动的事件。
The Palm Pre is the only smartphone on this list to use the portrait slider format, meaning it slides up instead of to the side when holding it like a phone.
PalmPre是榜单里唯一一款采用竖式滑盖设计的智能手机，这意味着在抓着它使用时是向上滑而不是向侧边滑。
NK: Yes, Ninject is released under the Apache License 2.0, meaning it can be used in projects of all kind without the requirement of redistributing source.
NK：对，Ninject基于ApacheLicense 2.0进行发布，即各种项目都可以使用它，而无须重新分发源代码。
The utility runs very quickly as it is not acquiring any locks or latches and runs outside of the engine's resources (meaning it even works on a hung engine).
该实用程序运行得非常快，因为它不需要获取任何锁，并且在引擎资源以外运行（这意味着它甚至能在一个挂起的引擎上工作）。
Further, DARPA wants BLADE to be integrated into existing electronic warfare devices, meaning it wants new algorithms and software, not new hardware systems.
此外，DARPA想把BLADE系统集成到现有电子战设备中，也就是DARPA需要的是新的算法和软件，而不是新的硬件系统。
[OASIS Committee Specification and ISO Draft Standard] is an XML schema language, meaning it is a language that can be used to define and limit XML vocabularies.
[oasis委员会规范和ISO草案标准]是一种XML模式语言，即一种可用于定义和限制xml词汇表的语言。
[OASIS Committee Specification and ISO Draft Standard] is an XML schema language, meaning it is a language that can be used to define and limit XML vocabularies.
[oasis委员会规范和ISO草案标准]是一种XML模式语言，即一种可用于定义和限制xml词汇表的语言。
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