In the experiments, the authors induced people to think about either credit cards or cash as means of payment.

在实验中，调查者引导人们去思考信用卡或现金作为支付手段时的情况，他们接下来了解大家采用不同支付方式时对商品的评价。

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I think you'll also see us explore scripting languages as means of defining control flow in the 2.1 release.

我想你还能在2.1版本中看到我们使用脚本语言来定义控制流程的探索。

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The centuries-old practice has been condemned by gender rights groups but defended by Zulus as means of combating teenage pregnancy and HIV。

这个习俗已经延续了几百年，招致性别平等组织的谴责，对此祖鲁人辩护称这只是针对青少年早孕、青少年艾滋病等问题的预防手段。

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It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

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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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That's one of the beauties of proteins as working molecules is that their structure can be changed by subtle means.

蛋白质作为一种生物活性分子,其优势之一是,能够通过精细的方法改变其结构

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The least painful and most sensible would be to expand dramatically the availability and use of alcohol-based fuels and electricity as means of powering the transportation sector, where most of our oil is currently consumed.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: War footing or GODSAVEUS

Banking developed in Florence because of the ingenious development of bills of exchange, first as a way of paying debts without having to transport cash, then as a means of evading the church's usury laws, and finally as a means of extending credit.

ECONOMIST: Renaissance Florence

They also desperately want to continue to use the Clinton surpluses (a result, not a cause, of the long 1990s expansion) as a means of marketing themselves as the responsible party.

FORBES: The Coming Recession: How Fiscal Responsibility is Economic Suicide