首頁(yè)英語(yǔ)詞典meansmeans的意思

means

英 [mi?nz] 美[minz]

英英釋義同義詞辨析詞組搭配考試真題實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句

近義詞process plenty method manner purse instrument facility organ technique

反義詞

n. 手段；方法；財(cái)產(chǎn)
v. 意思是；打算（mean的第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù)） [ 復(fù)數(shù)means ]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

中文詞源

means 方式，方法，錢(qián)財(cái)，財(cái)富

來(lái)自mean,中間的。后形容詞做名詞，引申詞義調(diào)解人，調(diào)停人，有影響力的人，最終用于指方式，方法，并引申詞義錢(qián)財(cái)，財(cái)富。

英英釋意

1. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved;: "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"

2. instrumentality used to achieve an end

3. considerable capital (wealth or income);: "he is a man of means"

英文詞源

means (n.): "course of action," late 14c., from mean (n.); sense of "wealth" is first recorded c. 1600. Compare French moyens, German Mittel. Phrase by no means attested from late 15c.; means-test is from 1930.

同義詞辨析

manner, method, way, mode, fashion, means, approach

這些名詞均含"方法，方式"之意。

manner：多指行動(dòng)的特殊方式或獨(dú)特的方法。

method：指有系統(tǒng)、有條理地辦事或解決問(wèn)題的方法。

way：普通用詞，可指一般的方法，有時(shí)也指?jìng)€(gè)人的方法或方式，也可指特殊的方式或方法。

mode：書(shū)面用詞，常指因個(gè)人愛(ài)好或傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗等因素而遵循的方法。

fashion：著重獨(dú)特的程序或方式，尤指?jìng)€(gè)人的偏愛(ài)或習(xí)慣。

means：指為達(dá)到某種目的或目標(biāo)而采用的方法、手段或途徑。

approach：指從事某事的特別方法、途徑。

考試真題

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

According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.

All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

And so all this means more traffic jams on the road.

Beyond gender, young adults' living arrangements differ considerably by education—which is tied to financial means.

Even if they could, Simpli Safe 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.

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

It just means that I'll need to change my ticket.

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

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.

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

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.

That means an extra five hours a day.

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

That means depending on packaged food with high salt and sugar content.

That means students are asked to use their individual experience to come up with answers to general questions.

That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

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.

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.

The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

The article says many people tend to assume that innovation just means creating something new, but actually it's more than that.

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.

The word "culture" comes the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".

This connection happens not only by means of collaborative development, review and testing, but also at conferences where faculty regularly decide on their textbooks and curricula for the coming year.

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

This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.

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

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.

Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.

Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.

He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy

The predicted global population growth means that ways have to be found to produce more food with finite resources.

According to social learning theories, social interaction is a means by which people acquire attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities

Which means that a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column.

For all of these reasons, some colleges like Hartwick are rethinking the old way of doing things and questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means.

It is by no means certain that the settlement will be?enacted?(執(zhí)行)?–?it is the subject of afairness hearing in the US courts.

Business leadership means that managers need to "put first things first," which implies that before leading others, you need to be clear on your own values, abilities, and strengths and be seen as trustworthy

Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of "real world" education—which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.

For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today.

That means wolves in the suburbs of New York.

If someone has a great sense of humor, were a son, it means that they are happy, socially confident and have a healthy perspective on life

The other's portrayal of Muir's life is a testimony to what it means to be lifelong learners and to use that learning to inform and bring about change

The means they use to get information.

That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope,' Doctor Snyder said, 'Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.

EL POPOLA CHINIO, which means from people's China, it's a monthly magazine in Esperanto and it is read worldwide

"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (從事自由職業(yè)的) perfor

Across the developed world, ear use is in decline as more people move to city centers, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.

And "doing well" means your earnings are rising.

Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their devices more and more inaccessible.

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.

It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.

Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.

living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don't have secure water supplies to drink.

Many successful virtual companies provide digital services, such as financial transactions, in the case of PayPal, or means of communication, as Skype does.

Ruel says that means the productivity of a nation's future generations depends in a large part on the first 1, 000 days of life.

That means concentrating on the direction of your life in general and your own academic performance specifically.

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

That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.

That means when a golfer tells himself "Don't hit the ball into the water", his mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water.

That person then drinks from the cup and raises it high, saying "Harambee!" which means "Let's all pull together!" All repeat "Harambee!" seven times and each person drinks from the cup.

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.

The extreme isolation of these massive farms leaves them often unattended, and monitored only once or twice a year, which means if the livestock falls ill or requires assistance, it can be a long time for farmers to discover.

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.

They include photos repurposed for inappropriate or illegal means, identity theft, embarrassment, bullying by peers or digital kidnapping.

This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (從事自由職業(yè)的) performer, who isn't regularly employed every single day working on projects.

This means an unprecedented number of people are surviving longer in conditions requiring expert support.

This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

This means that they have no foundations.

This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.

This means they are paid the lowest legal wage and receive no health care or other benefits provided to full-time employee.

This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU.

While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

Yet it is worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time.

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what "doing well" means in facts and figures?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Identify other means of the breakdown.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The means and expenses of students' communication.

The median number(中位數(shù)) 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.

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

They think tradition means old things from the past.

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

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

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.

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

A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very tricky, particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting.

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

Fourth, electronic means of payment may raise security and privacy concerns.

If we readjust our view of arguments—from a verbal fight or tennis game to a reasoned exchange through which we all gain mutual respect, and understanding—then we change the very nature of what it means to?"win"?an argument.

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

Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes.

Mies' signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

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

The fact that this is not an uncommon occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and steal from someone else's accounts.

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.

The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th

This means that a DNA database may have a lot of data from some regions and not others, so a person's test results may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

This means that people should avoid crisping their roast potatoes, spurn thin-crust pizzas and only easily toast their bread.

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

Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.

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

詞組搭配

beyond (或 within) one's means

beyond (or within) one's budget or income

入不敷出（或力所能及）

by all means

of course; certainly (granting a permission)

當(dāng)然；好的

“我可以提個(gè)建議嗎？”“當(dāng)然可以?！?
‘May I make a suggestion?’ ‘By all means.’。

by any means

(following a negative) in any way; at all

根本，一點(diǎn)也［用于否定句］

我一點(diǎn)也不窮.
I'm not poor by any means。

by means of

with the help or agency of

通過(guò)，依靠

通過(guò)水渠將水輸送到城市.
supplying water to cities by means of aqueducts。

by no means

(或 by no manner of means)not at all; certainly not

根本不，一點(diǎn)也不

結(jié)果怎樣根本沒(méi)有保證.
the outcome is by no means guaranteed。

means of grace

(Christian Theology)the sacraments and other religious agencies viewed as the means by which divine grace is imparted to the soul, or by which growth in grace is promoted

(基督教神學(xué))蒙恩之道

means of production

(especially in a political context) the facilities and resources for producing goods

生產(chǎn)資料

a means to an end

a thing that is not valued or important in itself but is useful in achieving an aim

達(dá)到目標(biāo)的途徑

higher education was seen primarily as a means to an end.
高等教育主要被看作實(shí)現(xiàn)理想的途徑。

實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句

Television is an effective means of communication.: 電視是一種有效的通信手段。

Is there any means of contacting him?: 有沒(méi)有什么辦法和他取得聯(lián)系？

Have you any means of identification ?: 你有沒(méi)有任何身份證件？

We needed to get to London but we had no means of transport .: 我們需要趕往倫敦，但卻沒(méi)有任何交通工具。

People should pay according to their means .: 人們應(yīng)該按照各自的負(fù)擔(dān)能力來(lái)消費(fèi)。

He doesn't have the means to support a wife and child.: 他無(wú)錢(qián)養(yǎng)活妻小。

Private school fees are beyond the means of most people (= more than they can afford).: 私立學(xué)校的費(fèi)用是大多數(shù)人無(wú)力支付的。

Are the monthly repayments within your means (= can you afford them) ?: 這樣按月還錢(qián)，你能承受得了嗎？

Try to live within your means (= not spend more money than you have).: 要盡可能量入為出。

a man of means (= a rich man): 有錢(qián)人

‘Do you mind if I have a look? ’ ‘By all means. ’: “我看一眼行嗎？”“當(dāng)然可以?！?/dd>
牛津詞典

The load was lifted by means of a crane.: 重物是用起重機(jī)吊起來(lái)的。

She is by no means an inexperienced teacher.: 她絕不是個(gè)毫無(wú)經(jīng)驗(yàn)的教師。

We haven't won yet, not by any means.: 我們離成功還遠(yuǎn)著呢。

He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.: 他不怎么喜歡這項(xiàng)工作，只是把它看作達(dá)到目的的手段而已。

The move is a means to fight crime...: 采取這項(xiàng)舉措是為了打擊犯罪。

The army had perfected the use of terror as a means of controlling the population...: 軍隊(duì)已經(jīng)深諳利用恐怖手段控制民眾之道。

...a person of means...: 富人

He did not have the means to compensate her.: 他沒(méi)有錢(qián)來(lái)補(bǔ)償她。

The more gifts she received, the more she craved, until he was living beyond his means...: 得到的禮物越多，她的胃口就越大，直到他捉襟見(jiàn)肘為止。

It is far better to pay off old debts steadily by living within your means.: 量入為出地一步步償還舊債，這個(gè)方法要好得多。

This is a two year course taught by means of lectures and seminars...: 本課程為期兩年，授課形式為講座與研討。

The trailer was connected to the car by means of a complicated system of hoses, pipes and rods.: 活動(dòng)房屋通過(guò)一系列復(fù)雜的軟管、管道和連桿與汽車(chē)相連。

'Can I come and have a look at your house?' — 'Yes by all means'.: “我可以過(guò)來(lái)看看你的房子嗎？”“當(dāng)然可以?！?/dd>
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典

This is by no means out of the ordinary...: 這絲毫不足為奇。

They were not finished, however, not by any means.: 不過(guò)，他們并沒(méi)有結(jié)束,絕對(duì)沒(méi)有。

We seem to have lost sight of the fact that marketing is only a means to an end.: 我們似乎忽略了這樣一個(gè)事實(shí)：營(yíng)銷(xiāo)只是達(dá)到目的的手段。

日本三级香港三级人妇少妇,亚洲人成一区在线网站,亚洲中文字幕第一页在线,亚洲中文字幕第一页在线