Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段与目的。
Speaking Chinese means more job opportunities.
会说中文意味着更多的就业机会。
Being optimistic means being hopeful about the future.
乐观意味着对未来充满希望。
This means that these volunteers not only heard the sound, but they remembered it.
这意味着这些志愿者不仅听到了这种声音，而且还记住了它。
If we want to get to Chicago by sunset, it means having to leave at dawn tomorrow.
如果我们想在日落之前到达芝加哥，那就意味着明天拂晓就得动身。
Growing up means that we need to face up to our responsibilities to our family and the society.
成长意味着我们需要正视自己对家庭和社会的责任。
Encountering difficulties while you're pursuing your dream means that you're on the right track.
在追梦的过程中遇到困难意味着你正走在正轨上。
An obstacle, setback or delay means only one thing: it's not time for your goal to be completed yet.
一个障碍、挫败或延迟只意味着一件事：现在还不是你实现目标的时候。
Tolerance just means that you should respect the differences in others and not try to make them change.
宽容只是意味着你应该尊重他人的不同，而不是试图改变他们。
Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.
最彻底的失败当然就是不去尝试，因为这意味着，你永远都不能向着自己的目标进发。
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”。
Being humble means you have the ability to accurately assess your deficiencies without denying your skills and strengths.
谦虚意味着你有能力准确评估自己的不足之处，同时也不否认自己的技能和优势。
Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.
浪费食物不仅意味着失去维持生命的营养，还意味着失去宝贵的资源，包括土地、水和能源。
My son, Ronan, looks at me and raises one eyebrow. His eyes are bright and focused. Ronan means "little seal" in Irish and it suits him.
我的儿子罗南看着我，挑起一侧眉毛。他的眼睛明亮而专注。罗南在爱尔兰语中的意思是“小海豹”，这很适合他。
In 1963, the Finnish Parliament made the bold decision to choose public education as the best means of driving the economy forward and out of recession.
在1963年，芬兰议会做出了一个大胆的决定：选择公共教育作为推动经济向前发展和走出经济衰退的最佳手段。
A more effective technique is "reframing", which means consciously reinterpreting a situation in a more positive light.
一种更有效的方法是“重构”，也就是有意识地从更积极的角度重新解释一种情况。
Here is what she says about the meaning of work: "If you have a job you like, work means much more than just making money."
关于工作的意义，她是这样说的：“如果你有一份自己喜欢的工作，工作的意义远不止是赚钱。”
The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".
“文化”这个词来自拉丁语“colere”，字面意思是“培养”。
Sometimes, it just means being connected by the heart.
有时候，它只是意味着心灵的联结。
It means we need to keep temperature increases below 1.5℃.
这意味着我们需要将升温幅度控制在1.5℃以下。
In China, we use red paper for hongbao because red means good luck.
在中国，我们用红色的纸做红包，因为红色寓意着好运。
It means a growing interest in traditional culture among China's youth.
这意味着中国年轻人对传统文化越来越感兴趣。
I expect each of you to make a kite that means something important to you.
我希望你们每个人都做一个对你们来说有重要意义的风筝。
Through her tears, she said, "You have no idea how much this means to me."
她流着泪说：“你不知道这对我有多重要。”
This means that to make your life happier, take a few minutes each day and count your blessings.
这意味着，想让生活更加愉悦，那就每天腾出几分钟，细数那些让你有幸福感的事。
Network learning has increasingly become an important means for people to acquire knowledge and solve problems.
网络学习已日益成为人们获取知识和解决问题的重要手段。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。
One old idiom is "luoyeguigen", which means returning to one's homeland at the old age, like fallen leaves return to the roots of their trees.
有个古老的成语叫“落叶归根”，意思是年老时回到自己的家乡，就像落叶返回树根一样。
Geocentric means Earth-centered, so the geocentric view holds that the Sun, the planets, and the stars, all revolve around the Earth, which is stationary.
地心论是指以地球为中心，所以地心论认为，太阳、行星和恒星都围绕着地球旋转，而地球是静止的。
Harris said that it was simply part of his job, "When I joined the army, I made a promise to protect the people, which also means protecting the dreams of a child."
哈里斯说，这只是他工作的一部分，“当我加入军队时，我承诺要保护人民，这也意味着要保护一个孩子的梦想。”
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