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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hooked himself now, as the tremendous jerk he gave the cable proved, and the sailors began to haul in the monster by means of tackle attached to the mainyard.
-- The captain examined the document carefully, and said:"Well, here's the date of the occurrence first: 7 Juni means June 7; and if we put that before the figures 62 we have in the other document, it gives us the exact date, 7th of June, 1862."
-- There is ZWEI, which means TWO, and ATROSEN or MATROSEN, the German for SAILORS."
-- BRINGT IHNEN means BRING THEM; and, if you recollect, in the English paper we had SSISTANCE, so by putting the parts together, it reads thus, I think: ‘BRING THEM ASSISTANCE.'"
-- "Then it would be by no means a matter of indifference to you, to visit another country instead."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, no, my dear Watson, not all by no means all.
-- 'As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,' said I, 'but at least it is not difficult to find out a few -particulars about the man's age and professional career.'
-- The most of them would by no means advance, but three of them, the bold-est, or it may be the most drunken, rode forward down the goyal.
-- That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them.
-- Sir Charles's generosity has giv-en us the means to do so.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- said the prince, laughing merrily as he rose from his place; just as merrily as though the circumstances were by no means strained or difficult.
-- I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances; but I am boring you, I see, you ' 'Just two words: have you any means at all?
-- No; at present I have no means what-ever, and no employment either, but I hope to find some.
-- 'It's a wonderful face,' said the prince, 'and I feel sure that her destiny is not by any means an ordinary, uneventful one.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is what he says, and this is he means to do, he will lame your horses for you, he will hurl you from your chariot, and will break it in pieces.
-- The son of Tydeus having thrown his spear dashed in among the foremost fighters, to the place where he had seen it strike the ground; meanwhile Hec-tor recovered himself and springing back into his chariot mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life.
-- She went, therefore, to the room which her son Vulcan had made her, and the doors of which he had cunningly fas-tened by means of a secret key so that no other god could open them.
-- It is easy to see when Jove is helping people and means to help them still further, or again when he is bringing them down and will do nothing for them; he is now on our side, and is going against the Argives.
-- I will find means to protect him from the swarms of noisome flies that prey on the bodies of men who have been killed in battle.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was all the more inclined to snap at Hall because the stranger was undoubtedly an unusually strange sort of stranger, and she was by no means assured about him in her own mind.
-- Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no means of reaching the land unless I should chance to drift there.
-- I was too ignorant of botany to discover any resort of root or fruit that might lie about me; I had no means of trapping the few rabbits upon the island.
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