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adj. 平均的；卑鄙的；低劣的
vt. 意味；想要；意欲
n. 平均值
vi. 用意
n. (Mean)人名；(柬)棉

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This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that.

But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence ( ' , 放纵 ) and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.

The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

Security devices are required to list the frequencies they broadcast on—that means that a potential thief can find what they need to know with minimal Googling.

Only a very small proportion of burglaries are committed by technical means.

Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.

It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.

It could also mean training employees how to do their jobs through video game platforms.

Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer, the environmental agency said.

It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

It means that we aren’t very friendly, we aren’t very open.

This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.

In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques ( ' , 评论 ).

"Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend," Soupios says.

A commentary in the Shanghai Daily points out that innovation doesn't mean piles of documents.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are "engaged" is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberati

And yet that does not mean that simply extending our careers is appealing.

Being depressed can mean feeling "lost in your own small, negative, dark world," Dowrick says.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains?

But this does not mean the end of the textbook itself.

He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.

I mean a lot of people seem to think that it's a nice job, you know.

I mean isn't it time for you to think about getting married?

I mean, it's been two decades, but I can still remember when I got my first real salary.

In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques.

Just because emails are a quick form of communication, it doesn't mean emails, especially business emails, should be written using informal, shortened forms of words.

Just because they can't sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn't mean that animal don't have culture.

Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become one.

More stages mean more possible sequences.

Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.

You mean high school graduates can't do this task in general?

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

In his eyes, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that innovation has stopped.

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.

People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

I now put 20 dollars a week into my vacation fund and another 20 into retirement savings, she says, Those mean more to me than lunch.

Unfortunately for them ( ' , and often the taxpayers), our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia ( ' , meaning it takes a lot of energy to set them moving), and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

That means that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's licence to fly.

A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn't mean elementary education isn't important.

And just because work stops, it doesn't mean we are recovering.

B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

But simply switching to electric can will not mean pollution-free cities.

But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.

Collaborative projects mean you're sharing the spotlight with others.

Forward exchange cover, now what does that mean exactly?

I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

I mean we deal with all kinds of people on a regular basis.

I mean, I've seen the famous films, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's and a few others, but I still don't fully get it.

I mean, what people regard as luck, you can actually create, to a degree.

I'm sorry, do you mean to say, it's a real-life series about a real person?

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

In his eyes, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that innovation has stopped.

It doesn't mean that my to-do lists no longer exist, but I've become more aware of the importance of slowing down and making sure that I enjoy the daily activities as I carry them out.

It's true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from .

Just because you can make good choices for others doesn't mean you'll do the same for yourself, Polman cautions.

nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.

Sorry, what do you mean by news-subs?

These improvements don't mean we shouldn't attempt to control our use of technology.

We might use the word "negative" to describe more difficult emotions but it doesn't mean those emotions are bad or we shouldn't have them.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

Also I'm not going to ask you what words mean.

Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh.

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

Both locally and globally, the continued spread of full-sun coffee plantations (种植园) could mean the destruction of the rainforest ecology.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But we're never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more.

By the time these "solutions" become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means.

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

English is a dynamic language that admits new words and recognizes changes in meaning, spelling, and usage of familiar words.

Food can also have a specific meaning, and play a significant role in a family or culture's celebrations or traditions.

For example, when I'm writing a textbook, it has become second nature to check a dozen definitions of a key term, which helps me dig into the core and understand its meaning.

For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

He was an international grandmaster, which meant I wound be learning from one of the game's best.

His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect other students.

How different is our mean-spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little scrap of "understanding" that can be dug out of a book.

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

I didn't mean to eat anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn't help trying it.

I mean, I don't see that much of them now as it is.

I picked up the stem cells in providence, rhode island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London.

I think it would be satisfaction of enjoying things with others, meaning when you give it to others, whether it's time, attention, a gift, anything, just those moments of sharing.

Identify other means of the breakdown.

If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome.

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.

In his modernist view, beauty lies in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create solutions to problems through the most efficient means.

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

It meant a happy and loving family.

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

Like many things in life, it's an ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement, which means you'll just keep getting better and better.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him: he meant business.

Mean taking some risks, so your brain raisers your tolerance for risk as well.

New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.

Seeing the positive side of things doesn't mean you're ignoring what happened.

Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way---that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means.

Songs in their heads: music and its meaning in children's lives.

Songs in their heads:music and its meaning in children's lives.

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

Success means getting personal desires satisfied.

Success, then, means never feeling tired.

That means 350 dollars for seven people.

That means a transparent object doesn't look very different from the surrounding air or water.

That meant beating out Miller king, who was the best player at our school.

That routine meant dad was home early to spend the evening with mum and me.

The cow was their only means of support, in fact.

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.

The language was simple, so simple I could plainly understand its meaning, yet it was still beautiful.

The line segment goes up between Day 1 and Day 2, which means that the bird flew farther on Day 2.

The meaning of silence varies among cultural groups.

The means and expenses of students' communication.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

The underlined word "sharp" probably means clear and definite.

Then came my tweens and teens, and mean girls and cool kids.

Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life.

There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

These innovative solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.

They think tradition means old things from the past.

This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone.

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.

Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants.

Tina stern received rides from Wilson for all her four years in college, and the trips meant much more to her than just free transportation.

To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets.

Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention.

True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal meant me no real harm.

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

Wang's winning of the prize means that Chinese architects are getting international recognition.

Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes.

Whoever patty was, she was a mean girl.

You don't mean you're going to read every word, do you?

You mean I should keep these useless things at home?

Zac knows the meaning of a purple heart—he earned one himself in a war as a soldier.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowingly positive.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music.

Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?.

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest.

But the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood.

Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain's National Health Service ( ' , NHS) and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well.

Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

But that doesn't mean crucial ethical issues involving AI aren't at hand.

For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention—so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

Prior knowledge and interests influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

Tronick believes that just because a child isn't learning from the screen doesn't mean there's no value to it -- particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.

What Washington does – or doesn't do – to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

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