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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICEThe train had started punctually.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was, like most inhabitants of Elk Mills before the Slavo- Italian immigration, a Typical Pure-bred Anglo-Saxon American, which means that he was a union of German, French, Scotch, Irish, perhaps a little Spanish, conceivably a little of the strains lumped together as "Jewish," and a great deal of English, which is itself a combination of primitive Briton, Celt, Phoenician, Roman, German, Dane, and Swede.
-- Don't you idiots realize what it means to have a man like that here, making new concepts of life?
-- means cubic centimeter and those to whom it means compound cathartic.
-- V Few women can for long periods keep from trying to Improve their men, and To Improve means to change a person from what he is, whatever that may be, into something else.
-- You're as unsandy as can be, but somehow 'Sandy' means you to me and-- Oh, my dear, I do like you!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?
-- 'Praskovya Pavlovna means to complain to the police about you,' she said.
-- What a grief it was to me when I heard that you had given up the university some months ago, for want of means to keep yourself and that you had lost your lessons and your other work!How could I help you out of my hundred and twenty roubles a year pension?
-- 'Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?'
-- 'Could I have expected to set it all straight and to find a way out by means of Razumihin alone?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think Mr.Murdstone's means were straitened at about this time; but it is littleto the purpose.
-- I had resolved to run away.- To go, by some means or other, downinto the country, to the only relation I had in the world, and tell mystory to my aunt, Miss Betsey.
-- My late experiences with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber suggested to methat here might be a means of keeping off the wolf for a little while.
-- My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking.
-- which did not by any means relieve my anxiety.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- If he means any thing, it must be to please 40 Emmayou.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The image as a whole was that of a small Noah's Ark on a small Ararat, allowing the traditionary outlines and general form of the Ark which are followed by toy-makers and by these means are established in men's imaginations among their firmest, because earliest impressions to pass as an approximate pattern.
-- she said with a little distress, and looking hopelessly around for some means of escape from her moral dilemma.
-- Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba's disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
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