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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is impossible that the very same words should have been effaced in each document, and by putting the scraps together we might gather some intelligible meaning out of them."
-- "Come, then, tell us the meaning of these words."
-- As to the next two words, GONIE and AUSTRAL, it is only AUSTRAL that has any meaning to us."
-- There are two letters here providentially which give a clew to their fate—PR, that must mean prisoners, and CRUEL INDIAN is evidently the meaning of the next two words.
-- It was impossible to mistake the meaning of the action, for the noble face of the Scotch lord so beamed with gratitude that no words were needed.
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：
-- 'Now,' said Sir Henry Baskerville, 'perhaps you will tell me, Mr. Holmes, what in thunder is the meaning of that, and who it is that takes so much interest in my affairs?'
-- For a minute I stood there with the paper in my hands thinking out the meaning of this curt message.
-- What is the meaning of it all?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mrs. Ep-anchin, in a meaning voice.
-- Aglaya and Alexandra had settled themselves with folded hands on a sofa, evidently meaning to be listeners.
-- N. B. the meaning of which is not explained, was inscribed on his shield ' 'No, A. N. D.,' corrected Colia.
-- Look here,' she continued, pointing to Colia, 'the other day that whippersnapper told me that this was the whole meaning of the 'woman question.'
-- When Hippolyte had finished, Ivan Fedorovitch shrugged his shoulders, and his wife looked him angrily up and down, as if to demand the meaning of his movement.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dread son of Saturn,' said she, 'what, pray, is the meaning of all this?
-- BOOK XIV ESTOR was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle Ndid not escape him, and he said to the son of Aescu-lapius, 'What, noble Machaon, is the meaning of all this?
-- Achilles thrust at him with his spear, meaning to kill him, but Lycaon ran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby the spear passed over his back, and stuck in the ground, hungering though it was for blood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had mal-formed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.
-- ' But perhaps my meaning grows plain now.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.
-- 'But what was the meaning of it all?'
-- What is the meaning of this cattle-herding work?'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king said the cubby would do for his valley meaning me.
-- So then I lit out for bed, I said, meaning some time or another.
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