Usually, the first meaning for a word in a dictionary is its literal meaning. Figurative meaning shares some of the qualities of the literal meaning.

通常，字典中对一个词解释的第一个的意项就是它的字面意思。比喻意思往往具备字面意思的某些属性。

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The first step in solving this meaning shortage is to figure out what you really care about, and then do something about it.

解决这个意义缺失（问题）的第一步是找出你真正关心的事情，然后再做点什么。

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Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning the first fruits of the harvest.

宽扎节是基斯瓦希里语，意思是收获的第一个果实。

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The Supreme Court has heard many cases that test the meaning of the First Amendment.

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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The first is the meaning of rights.

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He wrote from the outside in, meaning the first and last songs were completed before he started penning the middle.

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The Faroes scored with their first meaning attack of the second half - Stephen Craigan's poor touch gifted possession to the Faroes and Udsen played in Holst, who wriggled free 10 yards out before shooting across Taylor and into the bottom corner.

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