meaning是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 意思， 意义， 含义； 重要性， 价值，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder broth-ers born in these later years.'
-- Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; 64 Sons and Loversand at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
-- If we haven't all three met here without meaning it.'
-- The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My meaning is that I am a man,' 196 A tale of two citiessaid Stryver, inflating himself at his friend as he made the punch, 'who cares more to be agreeable, who takes more pains to be agreeable, who knows better how to be agree-able, in a woman's society, than you do.'
-- What may your meaning be, Mr.
-- 'My meaning,' answered the man of business, 'is, of course, friendly and appreciative, and that it does you the greatest credit, and in short, my meaning is everything you could desire.
-- Mr. Cruncher had no particular meaning in these sulky corroborations, but made use of them, as people not unfre-quently do, to express general ironical dissatisfaction.
-- He spoke of him, in short, not bitterly or meaning to bear hard upon him, but as anybody might who saw him as he showed himself.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What can be the meaning of this?'
-- Astonished at what he saw, the Councillor asked what was the meaning of all this mummery, and who that man was.
-- The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
-- Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.
-- 'What's the meaning of this?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had never connected these scientific deductions as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions as to the meaning of life and death to himself, which had of late been more and more often in his mind.
-- "I was meaning to come and see you," he said; and then, recollecting with what intention he was trying to see her, he was promptly overcome with confusion and blushed.
-- He bowed, and was meaning to retreat.
-- "Konstantin Dmitrievitch," she said to him, "do explain to me, please, what's the meaning of it.
-- What's the meaning of that?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They greeted him, with no meaning of offense in their snickering, "Got a pimple on my chin, Doc.
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：
-- 80 Crime and Punishment Chapter V f course, I've been meaning lately to go to Razumi-'Ohin's to ask for work, to ask him to get me lessons or something 芒聙娄' Raskolnikov thought, 'but what help can he be to me now?
-- He was meaning to go out, but suddenly, on the floor below, a door was noisily opened and someone began going downstairs humming a tune.
-- Rodya!What is the meaning of it?
-- 'I have been meaning to buy a lock for these two years.
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