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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you mean danger from this family fiend or do you mean danger from human beings?'
-- 'Yes, sir, and mean to find it.'
-- 'What!you don't mean to say ?'
-- 'That's just what I do mean to say.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, you don't mean to say that she and Lihachof ' cried Rogojin, turning quite pale.
-- 'Oh, I didn't mean in this room!I know I can't smoke here, of course.
-- I may have expressed myself badly, but I didn't mean that.'
-- Did she mean because Nas-tasia had been living with Totski?
-- 'Schneider said that I did the children great harm by my pernicious 'system'; what nonsense that was!And what did he mean by my system?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should be a mean coward,' he cried, 'were I to give in to you in all things.
-- When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions.'
-- Grant-ed that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.'
-- 'Son of Tydeus,' replied Nestor, 'what mean you?
-- This is what I say, and this is what I mean to do.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't mean no manner of speaking.
-- I mean marn 'ithout a 'ed!"
-- "When I say here," said the mariner, to Mr. Marvel's intense relief, "I don't of course mean here in this place, I mean hereabouts."
-- D'you mean to say ?"
-- "Wait a bit," said the mariner, rising and speaking slowly, "D'you mean to say ?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you mean to tell me ' 'Yes.
-- But I mean to do better things still.
-- I mean to conquer that.
-- 'I don't understand,' said I; 'do you mean to say ' 'It killed the Kanakas yes.
-- I did not, however, mean to die, and an incident oc-curred that warned me unmistakably of the folly of letting the days pass so, for each fresh day was fraught with in-creasing danger from the Beast People.
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