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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For a wolf, no,' said Tabaqui, 'but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
-- They never meant to do any more the Bandar-log nev-er mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
-- Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.
-- 'It is in my head that, if bullets mean anything, they would cast thee out.'
-- 'What did Petersen Sahib mean by the elephant dance?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these pages, Lenni-Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wap-anachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.
-- 'If you mean the younger Delaware, he, too, has gone down with the water.'
-- Does not Renard mean to turn like a fox on his footsteps, and to carry to the rich and gray-head-ed Scotchman his daughters?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the mean time, Ichabod would carry on his suit with the daughter by the side of the spring under the great elm, or sauntering along in the twilight, that hour so favorable to the lover's eloquence.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But do you mean to say she suspected nothing?"
-- "Did you mean it when you said she wouldn't have a bob?"
-- I do not know why I had an inkling that it would appeal to Strickland's sense of humour to bring a furious stockbroker over to Paris on a fool's errand to an ill-famed house in a mean street.
-- Do you mean to say you don't want to have anything more to do with them?"
-- "Won't it mean anything to you to know that people loathe and despise you?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft did not intend to let the raft go away in the current without guidance, neither did he mean to embark on it himself to steer it.
-- "Do you mean to say that you turn up your nose at suckling-pig?'
-- He did not mean to build a boat with boards and planking, but simply a flat-bottomed canoe, which would be well suited for navigating the Mercy above all, for approaching its source, where the water would naturally be shallow.
-- I don't mean from two-legged thieves, but from those with four paws!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this?
-- But neither oaths, or prayers, nor words, will kill me, and therefore I live, and mean to live.'
-- 'You mean when she has your money?'
-- Everybody bridled up at this remark, as much as to say, 'I know you mean me.
-- 'Why, Betsy,' said the old woman, 'you haven't been you don't mean to say you've been a ''Sitting up all night?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You mean Maslenikoff?"
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