As the process of communication is essentially a process of conveying meaning in a certain context, pragmatics can also be regarded as a kind of meaning study.

由于交际的过程从本质来说是在一定的语境中表达意义的过程，因而语用学的本质是一种意义研究。

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The new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference between meaning and happiness, but on the biological level.

新的 PNAS 研究也揭示了意义和幸福之间的差异，但只是在生物学层面上。

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Fisher notes that not every stutterer in the Drayna study had the defective gene, meaning there must be a number of other genes tied to stuttering.

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You know of course that this is absolutely crucial to the study of the law to this day: what are the grounds for understanding the meaning of the Constitution, for example?

你们当然知道,今天这些问题对于法学研究很关键：,比如，理解宪法的,根据是什么？

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Thus, the correct estimate of jobs gained from Medicaid expansion is only 41, 000, meaning that the study overstated the net number by roughly 25 percent.

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It is a randomized controlled study, meaning that similar patients were assigned at random to either get either Centrum or placebo.

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But Robert Harrington, a well-known Duke University Medical Center cardiologist, thought that the good and bad results from the drug made the study neutral, meaning there was no clear benefit from the medicine.

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