"Oh, Gairdner," he said, as if that meant something to him.

“啊，盖尔德纳，”他说道，好像这个名字对他来说意味着什么。

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Those were the stories that stayed with you… that meant something.

这才是让人永生难忘，意义非凡的感人故事。

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She found many photographs of people she did not know, but there were some that meant something to her.

她发现很多不认识的人的照片，但还有一些照片触动了她。

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I could see that the word w-a-t-e-r meant something wonderful and cool that flowed over her hand.

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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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Take the example of "plastic" again: "Oh, gee, that's a strange word," we say, so we go to the OED , we see it meant something different then, our problem is solved, and we continue.

再拿“塑料“来举例：,我们说，“哦，那是个生词“,所以我们去查牛津大学英语词典，我们发现它有些不同的意思，问题解决了，我们继续下去。

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It was amazing to have her meet Olympia Snowe and Barbara Boxer because that meant something to her politically.

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You could share that with a friend the way that you might loan a vinyl record or a CD to them, to listen to a song that meant something to you.

NPR: Apple's Jobs Argues Against Song Protections

Mr. BAILEY: It can be, and it's difficult with--you know, the use of some words that meant something 20 years ago may mean, you know, something totally different with the MTV generation.

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