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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the mean time he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops (who then attended him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and ar-rows just ready to discharge; but I did not observe it, for mine eyes were wholly fixed upon his majesty.
-- lthough I intend to leave the description of this em-Apire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
-- Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but 64 Gulliver's Travelsjust reach with my fist clenched.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She stopped, at twilight, at the door of a mean little public-house, with dim red lights in it.
-- 'I have not,' retorted Mr. Childers, after surveying him from head to foot, 'the honour of knowing you, but if you mean that you can make more money of your time than I can of mine, I should judge from your appearance, that you are about right.'
-- 'Do you mean that he has deserted his daughter?'
-- At least I mean to father, when Merrylegs was always there.'
-- he went down on his knee before her, on the poor mean stairs, and put an end of her shawl to his lips.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- The first and the last might, in a sentence connected with Iceland, mean sea of ice.
-- "You don't mean to say that you have any idea of the meaning of the scrawl?"
-- "I mean to say that we have only just reached the soil of the island itself.
-- Did Hans the guide mean to abandon us?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been virgin when he married: and the sex part did not mean much to him.
-- Nothing in it!What did he mean by nothing in it?
-- If the critics praised it, and Clifford's name was almost famous, and it even brought in money...what did her father mean by saying there was nothing in Clifford's writing?
-- Yet other men seemed to mean nothing to her.
-- 'You mean you wouldn't mind if he made love to Julia in some discreet alcove?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you mean that I have not represented the case correctly?'
-- 'Do you mean the Marseilles people?'
-- 'I mean the French people.
-- 'Ay!But I mean with a will.'
-- 'Do you mean that a prisoner forgives his prison?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you mean libel, I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle,' advised Jo, laughing.
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