"pull " has the widest use and its meaning covers that of all the other verbs in this group . “pull”用途最广,兼有这一组中所有其他动词的意义。
This is good news, very good news. it means they don't know he's been neutralized . 这是个好消息,非常好的消息。这就是说,他们尚不知道他已经被毙死。
Thoreau's writing was always simple, gay or sharp in tone, though its meaning was mostly serious . 索洛的文章虽内容严肃但一向简明扼要,格调轻快、鲜明。
Nor did it mean her father's sort of meek struggle; a weary effort to fit harmlessly in . 也不是像她父亲那样的懦弱的斗争,但求无过地马马虎虎地生存下去。
Do you realize that if you go to trial again it means the electric chair if you are found guilty ? 如果你再受审,而被裁决有罪,那你就要坐电椅了,你知道吗?
"is my hair very untidy?" asked bertha, catching miss ley's look and its meaning . “我的头发很凌乱,是吗?”伯莎问道。她看到了莱伊小姐的目光并理解了其目光中的含意。
Everyone should save for the future, even if it means doing without something that is desirable now . 人人都应该为将来存钱,哪怕是目前缺少一些心里想添置的东西也要储蓄。
it meant a long, exhausting series of submission and argument before four separate government bodies . 这就意味着要分别在四个政府机构面前进行一系列冗长的,使人精疲力尽的陈述和论辩。
it means ruin! black ruin for the rich, and consequently, of course, blacker ruin still for the poor . 那意味着毁灭!对有钱人来说可怕的瘟疫,当然其结果对穷人来说,是更加可怕的瘟疫。
it means that the object of our sentiment corresponds in some special way to some inherited or acquired disposition . 它意味着,我们感情的对象正以某种特有的方式迎合着我们的某些固有情愫。