Just as a single word can change the meaning of a sentence, a single sentence can change the meaning of a paragraph.

正如一个单词可以改变一句话的意思，一句话可以改变一段话的意思。

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They measured meaning by asking questions like "How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?"

他们通过问这样的问题来衡量意义，如：“你觉得你的生活有方向感或意义感的频率有多高？”

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People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have a strong sense of meaning but are not necessarily happy, showed a deactivation of the adversity stress response.

那些幸福和意义一致的人，以及那些有强烈的意义感但不一定快乐的人，都不能对逆境压力产生反应。

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Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

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This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

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Then, once you've done that, once you have secured the integrity and accuracy of the meaning, Hirsch says, "Okay, fine.

在你完成那个之后，一旦你确定了意思的真实性和准确性，赫施说，好的，不错。

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Does that not mean to you that, when confronted right at the outset with the phrase "sexual relations" that the president adopted and determined the common usage, well-understood definition of sexual relations that everybody in America recognizes as being the true meaning of sexual relations -- meaning sex of any kind?

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Moreover, even within a single group, the meaning of a gesture could vary with context, almost as tone of voice can vary the meaning of a human's spoken word.

ECONOMIST: Evidence that the first words were movements, not sounds

The simplest remark began to seem suspect, a riddle not devoid of meaning, but with a vague haze of meaning that grew hazier as I tried to clutch it.

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