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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you wound the optic nerve, you merely see flashes of light, just as disease of the auditory nerve merely means a humming in our ears.
-- You cannot imagine what this means to an inves-tigator, what an intellectual passion grows upon him!You cannot imagine the strange, colourless delight of these intel-lectual desires!The thing before you is no longer an animal, a fellow-creature, but a problem!Sympathetic pain, all I know of it I remember as a thing I used to suffer from years ago.
-- My thoughts went back to my means of escape.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- But he means to kill thee.'
-- 'That means there's a gale behind me.
-- Come along!When you're south of the Sticky Water [he meant the Equator] and your tail tingles, that means there's a gale in front of you and you must head north.
-- When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If enemies have reached the portage at all, a thing by no means probable, as our scouts are abroad, they will surely be found skirting the column, where scalps abound the most.
-- As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended en-tirely on bodily strength and resolution.
-- Tell him to trust you with the means to buy the freedom of his daughters.
-- 'The Hurons are not to be seen,' he said, addressing Da-vid, who had by no means recovered from the effects of the stunning blow he had received; 'let us conceal ourselves in the cavern, and trust the rest to Providence.'
-- As there were horses, to leave the prints of their footsteps, in both bands of the Indians, this interruption cut off any probable hopes of assistance being conveyed through the means of their trail.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw that she wished me to appeal to his sympathies by every means in my power.
-- Though his means were adequate to the needs of himself and his wife, he certainly had no money to waste; but now he was wantonly extravagant in the purchase of delicacies, out of season and dear, which might tempt Strickland's capricious appetite.
-- It meant to him what God means to the believer, and when he saw it he was afraid.
-- In giving to the character of his invention flesh and bones he is giving life to that part of himself which finds no other means of expression.
-- "I think you're trying to say something, I don't quite know what it is, but I'm not sure that the best way of saying it is by means of painting."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate the passengers, destitute of all marks for their guidance, could not have possessed the means of reckoning the route traversed since their departure.
-- Not having been able to leave the town before the first operations of the siege, he found himself shut up, to his great disgust; but, not accustomed to succumb to difficulties, he resolved to escape by some means or other.
-- It was not even necessary to lop the trees, for enormous quantities of dead wood were lying at their feet; but if fuel was not wanting, the means of transporting it was not yet found.
-- If he had survived from his fall, how was it that he had not found some means of making known his existence?
-- Pencroft much regretted not having either fire, or the means of procuring it, for he had, unfortunately, forgotten to bring the burnt linen, which would easily have ignited from the sparks produced by striking together two flints.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
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