专业释义英英释义
mean [ ment ]
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n.
an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
同义词： mean value
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v.
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mean or intend to express or convey
"You never understand what I mean!"
同义词： intend
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have as a logical consequence
"The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
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denote or connote
"`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
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have in mind as a purpose
"I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"
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have a specified degree of importance
"My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
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intend to refer to
"Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
同义词： think of have in mind
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destine or designate for a certain purpose
"These flowers were meant for you"
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mean or intend to express or convey
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adj.
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approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
"the mean annual rainfall"
同义词： average
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characterized by malice
"in a mean mood"
同义词： hateful
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having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
"taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
同义词： base meanspirited
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excellent
"famous for a mean backhand"
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marked by poverty befitting a beggar
"a mean hut"
同义词： beggarly
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(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
"a mean person"
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(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
同义词： beggarly
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of no value or worth
同义词： bastardly
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approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
meant /mɛnt/
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1.
Meant is the past tense and past participle of mean. (mean)的过去式和过去分词
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2.
ADJ You use meant to to say that something or someone was intended to be or do a particular thing, especially when they have failed to be or do it. 原本 [v-link ADJ to-inf]
例：I can't say any more, it's meant to be a big secret.
我再也无可奉告了，这原本是个大秘密。
例：Everything is meant to be businesslike.
所有的事情原本应该是公事公办的。
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ADJ If something is meant for particular people or for a particular situation, it is intended for those people or for that situation. 为…而做的 [v-link ADJ 'for' n]
例：Fairy tales weren't just meant for children.
童话故事不单单是为孩子们写的。
例：The seeds were not meant for human consumption.
这些种子并不是给人吃的。
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PHRASE If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen. 理应
例：The peculiar thing about getting engaged is that you're meant to announce it to everyone.
订婚特别要做的事是你理应该向每个人宣布你订婚了。
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PHRASE If you say that something is meant to have a particular quality or characteristic, you mean that it has a reputation for being like that. 公认
例：The Spurs are meant to be one of the top teams in the league.
马刺队被公认为是联盟中的强队之一。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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That's precisely what I meant.
那恰恰是我的意思。
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I finally twigged what he meant.
我终于弄明白了他的意思。
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What is meant by 'batch processing'?
batch processing是什么意思？
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The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.
VOA: special.2011.05.29
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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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And, um, I knew that Brown was an Ivy League school, so that meant it was a very good school.
我知道布朗大学是常春藤联盟中的一员，这表明布朗大学一定是一所非常顶尖的学校。
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