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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children must go, we will take them farther into the wood, so that they will not find their way out again; there is no other means of sav-ing ourselves!'
-- The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, contain-ing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.
-- Then she cried: 'Snow-white, Rose- red, come out, the bear will do you no harm, he means well.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
-- 87Chapter VIII The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
-- I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.'
-- He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story concerted between Glum-dalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words to make me sell at a better price.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby.
-- By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.
-- These portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.
-- There is some disparity in your respective years, but in your means and positions there is none; on the contrary, there is a great suitability.
-- It is remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man; he is, however, choleric and original.
-- To bear with him means to obey; and scarcely had his heavy feet resounded within our joint domicile than he shouted for me to attend upon him.
-- Then again I seemed to find the word luco, which means sacred wood.
-- Besides, some means would surely be found to keep my uncle back from attempting any such absurd expedition.
-- "Well, but it means nothing," was the angry answer.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said to her fiercely, 'I'd rather you said that to me than said you love me!It means such a lot more...Till after-noon then.
-- 'Not at all,' said Dukes; 'the top of you's by no means HORS DE COMBAT.
-- 'Ye must be born again!I believe in the resurrection of the body!Ex-cept a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it shall by no means bring forth.
-- But under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford was tempt-ed to enter this other fight, to capture the bitch-goddess by brute means of industrial production.
-- 'My dear boy, my dear lad, can you believe what it means to me, to hear that!And to hear you are working in the hopes of a son: and that you may again employ every man at Tevershall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
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