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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I understood his meaning when, plunging my hands into the sparkling jet, I myself gave a wild and frantic cry.
-- To make any meaning out of the sound, however, was beyond my power.
-- But what is the meaning of this murmur of waves, this unmistakable moaning of the salt-sea billows?
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：
-- For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an ab-solute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom.
-- But the day after, all the brilliant words seemed like dead leaves, crumpling up and turning to powder, meaning really nothing, blown away on any gust of wind.
-- But they were unripe, a little bitter, without meaning hang- ing there.
-- She looked at him, getting his meaning through the fog of the dialect.
-- One meaning blots out another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Jeremiah, evidently meaning Bad.
-- All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his plate; since he could not look towards her without receiving some glance of mysterious meaning or warning, as if they were engaged in a plot.
-- 'Meaning Twickenham?'
-- 'You must guide him, you know; you must steer him; you must direct him; he is one of a crotchety sort,' said Mr Meagles, evidently meaning nothing more than that he did new things and went new ways; 'but he is as honest as the sun, and so good night!'
-- I want to say it earnestly, and with as plain a meaning as it is possible to express.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You do know her, and she helps you better than any-one else could,' answered Laurie, looking at her with such mischievous meaning in his merry black eyes that Beth sud-denly turned very red, and hid her face in the sofa cushion, quite overcome by such an unexpected discovery.
-- She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good im-pression.
-- John never asked to see it, but she always insisted on his doing so, and used to enjoy his masculine amazement at the queer things women wanted, and made him guess what pip-ing was, demand fiercely the meaning of a hug-me-tight, or wonder how a little thing composed of three rosebuds, a bit of velvet, and a pair of strings, could possibly be a bonnet, and cost six dollars.
-- I felt myself disgraced and deserted forever, but didn't blame him a particle, and was scrambling my papers together, meaning to rush upstairs and shake myself hard, when in he came, as brisk and beaming as if I'd covered myself in glory.
-- Your letter came in the morning, but you said nothing about a parcel, meaning it for a surprise, so I was disappointed, for I'd had a 'kind of feeling' that you wouldn't forget me.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
-- There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.
-- We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it.
-- But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.
-- yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line, rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He's in luck, then,' said the young man, with a meaning look at Fagin.
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