They take the fear out of what are huge behemoths, but it means we turn them into cuddly toys, which they are not.

它们消除了巨大的庞然大物带来的恐惧，但这意味着我们将它们变成了可爱的玩具，这并非是它们本来的样子。

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I'm now applying to graduate school, which means someday I'll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want.

我现在正在向研究生院提交申请，这意味着有朝一日，我会重新找到一份工作，一份人们为了得到他们想要的东西而对我非常友好的工作。

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I'm self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love.

我是个体经营者，这意味着我为自己工作，做我喜欢做的事。

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"I don't think I would say he is free of cancer. I would say that he is in what we call a solid partial remission which means that the majority of the cancer cells have disappeared,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

So what we're going to see is less shielding, which means that it will actually feel a higher z effective.

那么我们将会看到更少的屏蔽，这意味着将会感受到更大的有效核电量。

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So that it's not what the text means -which might be anything, according to Hirsch, if you just appeal to the text; it's what the author means to say.

所以不是文本的意思，而是作者想说的东西,赫施认为，文本的意思几乎可以是任何东西，如果你仅仅参考文本的话。

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To lose weight, governments have to do two things: learn how to do more with less, which means modernising the state, and cut back on what they offer, which among other things means tackling the social transfers.

ECONOMIST: The ever-growing state

But they have yet to specify what that means, which powers they propose to repatriate from Brussels and how they would go about it.

ECONOMIST: David Cameron

If a company can expand its output to meet the market demands simply by internal efficiency improvements (which is what productivity means to some extent), why should they go out and hire more labor?

FORBES: It's The Productivity, Stupid