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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the Weatherbury folk were by no means uninteresting intrinsically.
-- Liddy looking at it said, "Did you ever find out, miss, who you are going to marry by means of the Bible and key?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her brother, her only means of communication, had not come to see her for four years, and had sent her no assistance; yet she prayed to God to unseal her father's eyes and to soften her brother's heart, and no accusations mingled with her prayers.
-- His bass voice was by no means unpleasant, and was in keeping with his boisterous laughter.
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- This mystery he meant to penetrate, hoping by its means to gain a sovereign ascendency over this fair typical Parisian.
-- "That is a pity; you are without one great means of success.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
-- Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth 25month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.
-- There was a show of grati-tude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behav-iour to her.
-- But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
-- You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She means well."
-- I guess this means we don't go to Europe.
-- "Don't you go throwing the Confederacy in my face!I reckon the Confederacy means as much to me as it doesto you, me with four boys in the Troop and you with none.
-- "Why, he means the boys are a passel of fools!"
-- "Yes, and there's 'Rue de la Paix' on the box, if that means anything to you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him profit by the means as I found out?
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- "Not that anybody means to try," she added, "for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is till it falls.
-- But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.
-- Even after that crisis in our affairs, he got up and turned round and round confusedly a few times, not knowing where I was; but finally went on his knees to his sponge and threw it up: at the same time panting out, "That means you have won."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh,' said the ass, 'by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.'
-- 'Yes, yes,' answered the mouse, 'by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
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