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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
-- Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face at least to my taste his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.
-- And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means to the same extent as with whalemen.
-- But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
-- It chanced one morning, while Oliver's affairs were in this auspicious and comfortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, chimney-sweep, went his way down the High Street, deeply cogitating in his mind his ways and means of paying certain arrears of rent, for which his landlord had become rather pressing.
-- Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
-- 'When I says I will, I means I will,' replied Mr. Gamfield doggedly.
-- There was not so great a necessity for hurrying as Mr. Sowerberry had anticipated, however; for when they reached the obscure corner of the churchyard in which the nettles grew, and where the parish graves were made, the clergyman had not arrived; and the clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire, seemed to think it by no means improbable that it might be an hour or so, before he came.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.
-- Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever.
-- Her performance was pleasing, though by no means cap-ital.
-- Jane was by no means better.
-- 'My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- 'Now,' he resumed, standing behind her: 'in case I should go away leaving things half done, and so should be wanted again when you come to the other half and get into one of your flights, has Arthur told you what he means to do about the business?'
-- His picture, dark and gloomy, earnestly speechless on the wall, with the eyes intently looking at his son as they had looked when life departed from them, seemed to urge him awfully to the task he had attempted; but as to any yielding on the part of his mother, he had now no hope, and as to any other means of setting his distrust at rest, he had abandoned hope a long time.
-- The doctor was scarcely the kind of apparition to inspire a patient with a sense of absolute completeness, but as he presently delivered the opinion, 'We are as right as we can be, Mrs Bangham, and we shall come out of this like a house afire;' and as he and Mrs Bangham took possession of the poor helpless pair, as everybody else and anybody else had always done, the means at hand were as good on the whole as better would have been.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my goodness!That little goose means a centaur, and she called him a Cyclops,' exclaimed Jo, with a burst of laughter.
-- T. TUPMAN Mr. Pickwick, Sir:I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trou-ble in his club by laughing and sometimes won't write his piece in this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and let him send a French fable because he can't write out of his head as he has so many lessons to do and no brains in fu-ture I will try to take time by the fetlock and prepare some work which will be all commy la fo that means all right I am in haste as it is nearly school time Yours respectably, N. WINKLE [The above is a manly and handsome aknowledgment of past misdemeanors.
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
-- 'She means vampire, not seaweed, but it doesn't matter.
-- The old gentleman send heaps of things, and is rather wearin, but means wal, and it aint my place to say nothin.
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