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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you mean to say it is a bottle that the shark has got in his stomach."
-- CONTIN—does that mean continent?
-- There are two letters here providentially which give a clew to their fate—PR, that must mean prisoners, and CRUEL INDIAN is evidently the meaning of the next two words.
-- "I mean this, that we ought to think ourselves fortunate if we can begin our married life with a good action.
-- "What do you mean by the SCOTIA?"
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：
-- 'You mean that the thing is supernatural?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father certainly could mean nothing more by his request to me than what you say.
-- Mrs. John Dashwood wished it likewise; but in the mean while, till one of these superior blessings could be attained, it would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche.
-- In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.
-- "They mean no less to be civil and kind to us now," said Elinor, "by these frequent invitations, than by those which we received from them a few weeks ago.
-- What the devil does Sir John mean by not having a billiard room in his house?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mean I don't know whether I can.
-- "Well, and I mean it too, but it takes money to live as I want to.
-- What did the chambermaid mean by it, anyway?
-- Then, with an air of one who did not intentionally mean to create trouble, "He came lots of times.
-- What do you mean by your insinuations, anyhow?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said it was a mean prac-tice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more.
-- She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm.
-- You know what I mean I don't know the words to put it in.
-- Then I told her my father and mother was dead, and the law had bound me out to a mean old farmer in the country thirty mile back from the river, and he treated me so bad I couldn't stand it no lon-ger; he went away to be gone a couple of days, and so I took my chance and stole some of his daughter's old clothes and cleared out, and I had been three nights coming the thirty miles.
-- This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: 'I'd LIKE to!And I orter, too a mean skunk!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geppetto, no doubt, will beat him unmercifully, he is so mean and cruel!"
-- "Do you, perhaps, mean me?"
-- "I certainly do mean you, poor Pinocchio--you who are such a little silly as to believe that gold can be sown in a field just like beans or squash.
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