It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products.

对东印度公司来说，这是一笔巨大的交易，因为这意味着该公司可以决定自己想要的产品价格。

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I would be very sad if it meant that the market expects it'll be quite OK to have zombie banks roaming around, sucking the life out of the economy.

如果这意味着市场预期僵尸银行四处游荡，吮吸经济活力，也完全OK的话，那我将非常难过。

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It meant that father wouldn't be back in a few days.

这意味着父亲几天内回不来。

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It meant that people would not have to climb many steps to reach the upper floors of tall buildings.

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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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It doesn't represent any particular neuron in the body, but just meant to represent functions that all of them have.

它不代表体内任何特定的神经元,只是用来表现神经元共有的一些功能

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Firstly it meant that a significant proportion of the foreign debt was in practice written off.

WSJ: Philip Bowring: China Needs a 1997-Style Crisis

It meant that Glenn Hoddle had to be a little experimental with his selection.

BBC: England can't rely on lady luck

We breathed again - it meant that, mercifully for us, they would fall upon somebody else.

BBC: Stanley Ross remembers the Blitz