The problems lie in the means, not the ends.

问题出在手段而不是结果。

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As future conditions are uncertain, production is always speculative. It may result either in a surplus or in a deficit in the means of the entrepreneur.

假如未来的处境不确定，那么生产就总是有风险的，可能获利也可能亏损，这取决于企业家的方法。

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This measure inevitably means higher taxes in the long run.

从长远来看这项举措的结果就是要多纳税。

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Some experts believe the word for chocolate came from the Aztec word "xocolatl" which in the Nahuatl language means "bitter water."

VOA: special.2010.02.17

plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

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We understand irony only, he means, to the extent to which we are in agreement with the other person.

他的意思是,我们只能在赞同对方观点的程度上,理解讽刺。

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Behind the controversy is a change not in the laws of war but in the means of waging it.

ECONOMIST: Assassination

Are we only interested in the means and consider the ends irrelevant?

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

It is in this context that prison libraries take on central roles in creating the means and the setting in which lifelong learning can occur.

UNESCO: M��nster Prison Library