The move is a means to fight crime.

这个行动是打击犯罪的一种手段。

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He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.

他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。

《牛津词典》

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It is an endorsement of our call for economic, social uplifts as a means of fighting extremism."

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It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

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In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

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After all, cycling, like anything else in Paris, is as much a style-statement as a means of transport.

BBC: Caroline Wyatt cycling through Paris

And most of them lacked a means to lock in, or hedge, these paper gains in home equity.

FORBES: Mispriced

This recommendation is not a threat to that ambition but a means of achieving it.

BBC: Eastbourne and Hastings hospitals could share services