Semantics use metadata to capture the formal meaning of data.

语义使用元数据来捕获数据的正式含义。

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M: Well, that s the formal meaning of "to check something out."

原来to check something out可以指从图书馆借书，可是在不正式的场合就是“仔细看一看”的意思。

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The relationship among them consists of three kinds of meanings in semiotics: formal meaning, existential meaning and practical meaning.

这三种意义分别对应着语言的言内意义、指称意义和语用意义。

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That's why she produced story after story after story that can be read in these formal ways with these symbols that accrue meaning and deepen and change over the course of the novel or the story.

这就是为什么她写了一个又一个故事,有着象征意义的形式正式的文章，自然而然地形成某种意义,深刻并改变着小说或故事的发展。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It gave the EU a formal solidarity role - meaning an EU state under attack would be guaranteed assistance by other member states.

BBC: Security and Defence Committee

One factor that the study quantifies is human-capital endowment, meaning the brainpower created by parents, formal education and training, and on-the-job learning.

ECONOMIST: The brainpower famine begins to bite