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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And, translating the word yokel for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be, that this attempt was not made by a countryman?'
-- Mr. Bumble might have meant that he had concentrated a whole existence of happiness into the short space of eight weeks; but the sigh--there was a vast deal of meaning in the sigh.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?'
-- What could be the meaning of it?
-- At that moment, Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but on perceiving Mr. Darcy, he stopped with a bow of superior courtesy to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
-- She then read the first sentence aloud, which comprised the information of their having just resolved to follow their brother to town directly, and of their meaning to dine in Grosvenor Street, where Mr. Hurst had a house.
-- 'What can be the meaning of this?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I likewise taught him to say Master; and then let him know that was to be my name: I likewise taught him to say Yes and No and to know the meaning of them.
-- He did not see the kid I shot at, or perceive I had killed it, but ripped up his waist-coat to feel whether he was not wounded; and, as I found presently, thought I was resolved to kill him: for he came and kneeled down to me, and embracing my knees, said a great many things I did not understand; but I could easily see the meaning was to pray me not to kill him.
-- The next day I set him to work beating some corn out, and sifting it in the manner I used to do, as I observed before; and he soon understood how to do it as well as I, especially after he had seen what the meaning of it was, and that it was to make bread of; for after that I let him see me make my bread, and bake it too; and in a little time Friday was able to do all the work for me as well as I could do it myself.
-- I was perfectly confounded at the sight, and knew not what the meaning of it should be.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How strange this is!what can be the meaning of it!But the whole of their behaviour to each other has been unaccountable!How cold, how composed were their last adieus!How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together!In Edward's farewell there was no distinction between Elinor and me: it was the good wishes of an affectionate brother to both.
-- This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her Christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
-- Edward saw enough to comprehend, not only the meaning of others, but such of Marianne's expressions as had puzzled him before; and when their visitors left them, he went immediately round her, and said, in a whisper, "I have been guessing.
-- "Upon my word," replied Elinor, "I cannot tell you, for I do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word.
-- Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, "Good God!Willoughby, what is the meaning of this?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came within the meaning of a still newer term, which had sprung into general use among Americans in 1880, and which concisely expressed the thought of one whose dress or manners are calculated to elicit the admiration of susceptible young women--a "masher."
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- Chapter VII THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL--BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.
-- she asked, meaning the room.
-- She found, after all--as what millionaire has not?--that there was no realising, in consciousness, the meaning of large sums.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
-- They couldn't hit no project that suited exactly; so at last the duke said he reckoned he'd lay off and work his brains an hour or two and see if he couldn't put up something on the Arkansaw village; and the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way meaning the devil, I reckon.
-- Jump out and he'p the gentle-man, Adolphus' meaning me, I see.
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