She asked him to clarify what he meant.

她要他说清楚他是什么意思。

《牛津词典》

I did not have the foggiest idea what he meant.

我压根儿不知道他是什么意思。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

That is what he meant.

这是他的意思。

youdao

He asks what it meant. Blackwater was the name of a private security and military training company.

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That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.

也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质,我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。

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Derrida famously, notoriously, said "there is nothing outside the text," right? What he meant by that, of course, is that there's nothing but text.

德里达著名地，恶名昭彰地，说道，文本之外什么都没有“,是吧，当然，他意思就是说，需要考虑的只有文本。

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When he made this admission, there was no doubt in anyone's mind what he meant.

CNN

He was asked and he answered and he said yes and he made clear what he meant.

CNN

Journalists spent weeks figuring out what he meant, and he made good use of the ensuing publicity.

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