mean是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 吝啬的; 卑鄙的; 刻毒的; 难看的, 破旧的; 平庸的; n. 中间, 平均数; v. 想要, 打算，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mind!I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowl-edge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
-- 'You don't mean that, I am sure?'
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
-- 'You don't mean to say you took them down, rings and all, with him lying there.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My credentials, entries, and mem-oranda, are all comprehended in the one line, 'Recalled to Life;' which may mean anything.
-- 'I mean of him.
-- 'Do you mean to finish that pair of shoes to-day?'
-- 'I can't say that I mean to.
-- 'Saying your prayers!You're a nice woman!What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.'
-- 'I could not be in peace!It is true, I was al-ways a fine starched-up gentleman!I had both a boot-jack and a hair-comb, which I never used!You should have seen me then, you should have seen me when I lay down!I shall never forget MY FIRST LOVE she was a girdle, so fine, so soft, and so charming, she threw herself into a tub of water for my sake!There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so ferocious!My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am ex-tremely sorry for the garter I mean the girdle that went into the water-tub.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Your tears mean nothing!You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling!You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger--yes, a complete stranger!"
-- I've not long...yesterday...I mean today...I arrived," answered Levin, in his emotion not at once understanding her question.
-- "All right, then, the England," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, selecting that restaurant because he owed more there than at the Hermitage, and consequently considered it mean to avoid it.
-- Do you mean he made your belle-soeur an offer yesterday?"
-- Yes, if he went away early, and was out of humor too, it must mean it....
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What do you mean by `once'?
-- "When I say I'll wager," returned Stuart, "I mean it."
-- "I mean to say that the train isn't going on."
-- "I mean that it is a piece of shameful trickery.
-- The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He exulted, "I'm going to have 'em all--the fame of Max Gottlieb--I mean his ability--and the lovely music and lovely women-- Golly!I'm going to do big things.
-- It was disconcerting to Martin that she should seem to think that she was a superior person quite as much as himself, but he was even more disconcerted when she bubbled: "At the same time, Martin, one does have to be practical, doesn't one!Think how much more money--no, I mean how much more social position and power for doing good a successful doctor has than one of these scientists that just putter, and don't know what's going on in the world.
-- Do I really mean it?
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