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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I didn't mean to be rude then.
-- I didn't mean to.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what do you mean by hopelessly?'
-- She is an angel!She is not writing anything to you now, and has only told me to write that she has so much, so much to tell you that she is not going to take up her pen now, for a few lines would tell you nothing, and it would only mean upsetting herself; she bids me send you her love and innumerable kisses.
-- They talk of duty, conscience I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience; but the point is, what do we mean by them.
-- But supposing she were in the meantime to miss the axe, look for it, make an outcry that would mean suspi-cion or at least grounds for suspicion.
-- 'Allow me to explain that I have been living with her for nearly three years and at first 芒聙娄 at first 芒聙娄 for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given 芒聙娄 she was a girl 芒聙娄 indeed, I liked her, though I was not in love with her 芒聙娄 a youthful affair in fact 芒聙娄 that is, I mean to say, that my landlady gave me credit freely in those days, and I led a life of 芒聙娄 I was very heedless 芒聙娄' 'Nobody asks you for these personal details, sir, we've no time to waste,' Ilya Petrovitch interposed roughly and with a note of triumph; but Raskolnikov stopped him hotly, though he suddenly found it exceedingly difficult to speak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you mean the house, ma'am?'
-- exclaimed Miss Betsey, unconsciously quoting thesecond sentiment of the pin-cushion in the drawer upstairs, butapplying it to my mother instead of me, 'I don't mean that.
-- But at this point Peggotty- I mean myown peculiar Peggotty- made such impressive motions to me not to 39ask any more questions, that I could only sit and look at all thesilent company, until it was time to go to bed.
-- I mean him.
-- 'Oh, it'll soon leave off,' said Peggotty- I again mean our Peggotty-'and besides, you know, it's not more disagreeable to you than tous.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dearest papa!You do not think I could mean you, or suppose Mr. Knightley to mean you.
-- 'I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'' said Mr. Knightley.
-- Oh yes!It is not likely you should ever have observed him; but he knows you very well indeed I mean by sight.'
-- However, I do not mean to set up my opinion against your's and I am sure I shall not wish for the acquaintance of his wife.
-- I do not rec-ommend matrimony at present to Emma, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
-- "That I can't, indeed," he said, moving past Oak as a Christian edges past an offertory-plate when he does not mean to contribute.
-- "Yes, I mean that I might.
-- Your lot is your lot, and Scripture is nothing; for if you do good you don't get rewarded according to your works, but be cheated in some mean way out of your recompense."
-- We mean to surprise Weatherbury by coming there soon as husband and wife, though I blush to state it to one nearly a stranger.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is built of rough stone, and covered with the yellowish stucco that gives a mean appearance to almost every house in Paris.
-- He is absurdly suspicious, and he is a mean curmudgeon, an idiot, a fool; you would never be happy with him."
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