means是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 方法， 手段，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and means of warmth.
-- Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
-- The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distract-ing his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Only one thing more,' said Mr. Lorry, laying stress upon it as a wholesome means of enforcing her attention: 'he has been found under another name; his own, long forgotten or long concealed.
-- Outside Tellson's never by any means in it, unless called in was an odd-job-man, an occasional porter and messenger, who served as the live sign of the house.
-- Silence in the court!Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excel-lent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, ex-cellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-ad-verbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
-- The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
-- Mr. Lorry adjusted his little wig at both ears as a means towards that end, and bit the feather of a pen.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lords of the bedchamber, who were to carry his Maj-esty's train felt about on the ground, as if they were lifting up the ends of the mantle; and pretended to be carrying something; for they would by no means betray anything like simplicity, or unfitness for their office.
-- It was the shoes that caused the metamorphosis by means of which, unknown to himself, he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer; but, as we have just seen, he felt himself in his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the very thing which but some minutes before he had rejected.
-- He found himself on one of the many circumjacent mountain-ridges with which we are acquainted by means of Dr. Madler's 'Map of the Moon.'
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
-- 'I am by no means old,' said the Fir Tree.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That means that she's not slept again all night," he thought.
-- "You remember the children, Stiva, to play with them; but I remember them, and know that this means their ruin," she said--obviously one of the phrases she had more than once repeated to herself in the course of the last few days.
-- "On one side it's a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side" (he stammered) "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
-- But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.
-- What is wanted is means of improving nutrition, and not for lowering it."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.
-- Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority shook their heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling.
-- The following night they passed through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, which means in Arabic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal.
-- "I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
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