She asked him to clarify what he meant.
她要他说清楚他是什么意思。
The farmer didn't understand what he meant, but he still hired him.
农夫不明白他的意思，但还是雇佣了他。
What he meant is that human should follow the way of nature and try not to break the rule of nature.
他的意思是说，人类应该遵循自然的方式，尽量不要打破自然法则。
My grandfather Ruby once told me that time is the most precious commodity; I never understood what he meant until 2002.
我的祖父鲁比曾对我说过，时间是最贵重的商品；直到2002年，我才明白他的意思。
We asked him what he meant by Vedanta.
我们问他吠檀多是什么意思。
What he meant was that he regretted having to ask for the bail-out.
他的本意是对于不得不要求纾困，他感到很遗憾。
So I sort of thought he was insulting his staff, but that's not what he meant.
所以我觉得他是在侮辱他的员工，但是他并不是这个意思。
What he meant, of course, is he'll await a High Court ruling and then act.
他的意思，当然是要他将等待著高等法院的裁决，然后再采取行动。
His tones underlined his meaning so that no one could mistake what he meant.
他的语气使得他的意思很突出，以致没人能误解他的意思。
I wasn't sure what he meant by that, but he promised to tell me when he got home.
我不知道他说的是什么东西，而他答应我回来后一定会告诉我的。
Obama looked like a little kid asking his Daddy to explain what he meant to do.
奥巴马看上去就像个孩子，在询问他的爹地下一步该怎么做。
My friend said cars are a pain. What he meant was that his car was a lot of trouble.
我的朋友视汽车为眼中钉，他的意思是他的车子为他添了许多麻烦。
When I first heard this, I didn't quite understand what he meant until I experienced it myself.
当我第一次听到这个，我不是很能理解这是什么意思，直到我自己有了亲身体验。
What he meant was that Brett had his ownpersonality, all kids do, and his style was that of a bulldozer.
他的意思是布雷特有他自己的性格特征，和其他小孩一样，他的处事方式就是像推土机，横扫一切，盛气凌人。
I learned what he meant by that when we were establishing quality as our Number One Priority at Ford .
我在我们把质量确定为第一重要的事时明白了这句话的意思。
What he meant was that Brett had his ownpersonality, all kids do, and his style was that of a bulldozer.
他的意思是布雷特有自己的个性，每个孩子都是如此，而他的风格就像不可一世的推土机。
What he meant by an account in full, Nikolay knew even less than the panic-stricken and bewildered Mitenka.
全部帐目是些什么帐目，胆战心惊的、困惑不安的米坚卡比·尼古拉知道得更多。
Dwight Eisenhower said, "planning is everything, the plan is nothing." I didn't know what he meant until recently.
艾森豪·威尔(Dwight Eisenhower)曾说过，“规划至关重要，计划本身无足轻重”，直到最近我才明白它的真谛所在。
That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.
也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质，我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。
When pressed on what he meant by this phrase, he told the class that he desired a wife who would do his cooking and cleaning.
当追问他这句话想表达什么意思的时候，他对班里的人说他希望有一位会给他做饭、打扫的妻子。
But the interpreter of a law cannot solve the problem by going back to the author of the legal text and asking what he meant.
但是法律解释则不能通过这种方式解决，即回到作者那问他想要表达什么意思。
Yeah, but I think what he meant was, it's hard to make an unhappy woman happy…a house can only be as happy as the least person in it.
是啊，但是我认为他的意思是，要让一个不快乐的女性快乐很难，一个房子里的快乐只等于住在房子里那个最少快乐的人一样多。
When Descartes said, "Conquer yourself rather than the world," what he meant was, at bottom, the same - that we should act without hope.
当笛卡儿说：“征服你自己有甚于征服全世界。”他的意思究竟还是一样——那就是我们没有希望也得行动。
When asked what he meant by that, Mr Trichet said that when interest rates fall to “very, very low” levels it is hard to raise them again.
当被问及其意指如何时，特先生回答道，当利率降到“非常、非常低”的水平时，再想提息就难了。
Derrida famously, notoriously, said "there is nothing outside the text," right? What he meant by that, of course, is that there's nothing but text.
德里达著名地，恶名昭彰地，说道，文本之外什么都没有“，是吧，当然，他意思就是说，需要考虑的只有文本。”
Derrida famously, notoriously, said "there is nothing outside the text," right? What he meant by that, of course, is that there's nothing but text.
德里达著名地，恶名昭彰地，说道，文本之外什么都没有“，是吧，当然，他意思就是说，需要考虑的只有文本。”
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