当被问及她什么意思时，她诡秘地说：“你自己想想吧。”

Asked what she meant, she said mysteriously: "Work it out for yourself."

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海蒂还在纳闷爷爷是什么意思时，彼得来了，边吹着口哨边叫着。

While Heidi was still wondering what the grandfather had meant, Peter arrived, whistling and calling.

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当你遇到一个单词，却不知道它的意思时，你应该怎么做？

What should you do when you come to a word and you think you don't know what it means?

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iterature cannot merely be received as a definite unit of referential meaning that can be decoded without leaving a residue.

文学不能仅仅以一个确切的参考性意思的单位来理解,这种参考性意思的单位在破解时不会留下任何残余。

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Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

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And when we say lower in energy, of course, what we mean is more negative.

当然当我们说能量更低时，我们的意思是更为不活跃。

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