In one case it went from meaning "a meal" to meaning "a single portion."

其中一例源于“一餐”或者“单份”的意思。

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Yet so slippery—and thus convenient to politicians—is the English language that a single word encompasses both, and in doing so loses any claim to meaning.

英语非常狡猾-因此对于政客们来说非常方便-一个词涵将这两种意义都涵盖了，并且在行动中失去其中的一种意义。

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As your horizons expand, these new ideas can give a whole new meaning to life.

随着你的眼界不断开阔，这些新观念将给你的生活赋予崭新的意义。

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But Afghanistan fell three places to just above Somalia, meaning Afghanistan is seen as the second most corrupt country.

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We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

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He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.

其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。

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The Civil Rights Division will continue its efforts to aggressively enforce civil rights laws to give meaning to the promise of equal opportunity.

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And the experts said examiners might have allowed "grade inflation" to happen without meaning to.

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We lack leaders like Bill Casey, who have the courage to give strategic meaning to what we know.

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