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。

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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”。

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Often far away from home, we may start by keeping in contact with our parents, as a means to meet our obligations as part of our family.

通常如果离家很远的话，我们可以从与父母保持联系开始，作为家庭一份子履行家庭义务的一种方式。

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The Obama administration,he added, must make clear that it does not view engagement with Iran as a process without an end, but as a means to identify ends that would benefit both countries.

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We know that ionization energy is going to increase as we go across the periodic table, so that means carbon has a lower ionization energy than nitrogen which is right next to us.

我们知道电离能会随着周期表,向右而逐渐变大，因此碳的电离能比旁边的氮要低一些,那么就像我说的。

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If you're a public company it means that you've gone through the procedures at the SEC to be approved as a public company.

一家上市公司,是通过证交会的审查程序,而被批准为上市公司的

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They are valuable only as a means to the end of fuelling domestic spending.

ECONOMIST: Ersatz Europeans

"Banks have not cracked the other channels as a means to cross-sell, " he says.

WSJ: Banks Try to Lure Customers Back to Branches

Economic ties were viewed as much as a means to co-operation as an end in themselves.

ECONOMIST: Holding together