means
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- n. 手段；方法；財產(chǎn)
- v. 意思是；打算（mean的第三人稱單數(shù)） [ 復數(shù)means ]
考試真題
- "This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer," the environmental agency said.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- 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.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a professor.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- And so all this means more traffic jams on the road.
2017年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Beyond gender, young adults' living arrangements differ considerably by education—which is tied to financial means.
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- I'm self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love.
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- It just means that I'll need to change my ticket.
2017年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.
2016年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- That means an extra five hours a day.
2019年6月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- That means depending on packaged food with high salt and sugar content.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- That means students are asked to use their individual experience to come up with answers to general questions.
2019年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.
2019年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.
2017年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2015年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2017年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2016年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- The article says many people tend to assume that innovation just means creating something new, but actually it's more than that.
2016年6月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- 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.
2016年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The word "culture" comes the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- 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.
2019年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.
2017年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2016年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.
2019年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- He obtained Monsanto's patented seeds by illegal means
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- The predicted global population growth means that ways have to be found to produce more food with finite resources.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- According to social learning theories, social interaction is a means by which people acquire attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- 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
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Which means that a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column.
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- 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
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- 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.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- That means wolves in the suburbs of New York.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- 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
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- 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
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- The means they use to get information.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- 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
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- EL POPOLA CHINIO, which means from people's China, it's a monthly magazine in Esperanto and it is read worldwide
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- "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
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- And "doing well" means your earnings are rising.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their devices more and more inaccessible.
2017年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- 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
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.
2018年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.
2019年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don't have secure water supplies to drink.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Many successful virtual companies provide digital services, such as financial transactions, in the case of PayPal, or means of communication, as Skype does.
2015年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- 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.
2015年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- That means concentrating on the direction of your life in general and your own academic performance specifically.
2019年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- That means that the FAA could suspend virgin Galactic's licence to fly.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- 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.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- 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.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- 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.
2016年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2016年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- They include photos repurposed for inappropriate or illegal means, identity theft, embarrassment, bullying by peers or digital kidnapping.
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- This means an unprecedented number of people are surviving longer in conditions requiring expert support.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- This means that they have no foundations.
2019年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- This means they are paid the lowest legal wage and receive no health care or other benefits provided to full-time employee.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- 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.
2018年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- 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.
2018年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- 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.
2017年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what "doing well" means in facts and figures?
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh.
2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 完形填空 原文
- At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.
2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.
2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- By the time these "solutions" become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- 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.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 單項填空 原文
- Identify other means of the breakdown.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.
2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀表達 原文
- 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.
2016年高考英語上海卷 選詞填空 原文
- 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.
2017年高考英語浙江卷（11月） 語法填空 原文
- 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.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Success means getting personal desires satisfied.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項
- Success, then, means never feeling tired.
2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- That means 350 dollars for seven people.
2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- That means a transparent object doesn't look very different from the surrounding air or water.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The cow was their only means of support, in fact.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 語法填空 原文
- The line segment goes up between Day 1 and Day 2, which means that the bird flew farther on Day 2.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- The means and expenses of students' communication.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- 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.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The underlined word "sharp" probably means clear and definite.
2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 短文填空 原文
- They think tradition means old things from the past.
2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets.
2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- 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.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Wang's winning of the prize means that Chinese architects are getting international recognition.
2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設
- A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2015年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2020年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- Fourth, electronic means of payment may raise security and privacy concerns.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2020年考研真題（英語一）翻譯 Section Ⅲ
- Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.
2014年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Mies' signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.
2011年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.
2014年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2012年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2011年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2020年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2016年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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
2013年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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
2015年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2009年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- This means that people should avoid crisping their roast potatoes, spurn thin-crust pizzas and only easily toast their bread.
2020年考研真題（英語一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- 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.
2009年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- 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.
2011年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ