【mean音标】 英[mi:n] 美[mi:n]
【单词释义】 mean是什么意思：
v.表示…的意思；意思是；打算；产生…结果
adj.吝啬的；刻薄的；破旧的；残忍的
n.平均数；中间；几何平均；等比中数
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] means [第三人称单数] means
[单词现在分词] meaning
[单词过去式] meant
[单词过去分词] meant
[比较级] meaner [最高级] meanest
【mean形近词/近似词】
dean n.学院院长，系主任；教务长；[宗]主任牧师
ocean n.洋；海洋；大海
lean v.（使）倾斜，屈身；倚靠 adj.瘦的；脂肪少的；贫乏的 n.倾斜；瘦肉
glean v.收集；拾落穗；收集（资料）
wean vt.使断奶；使断念 n.〈英〉婴儿
bean n.豆；豆形种子
jean n.吉恩(人名)；牛仔裤（通常用jeans）；[纺] 斜纹棉布
paean n.赞歌，凯歌
clean adj.清洁的、干净的 v. 清扫；（使）清洁
【单词例句】
◇ OF course you know what is meant by a magnifying-glass ?? one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is.
你当然知道什么叫做放大镜 ── 它是一种圆玻璃，可以把一切东西放大到比原来的体积大一百倍。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ "Oh, husband!" said the woman, terrified. "That was the devil. He didn't mean the apple tree, but our daughter, who was just then standing behind the mill sweeping the yard."
“唉呀，老公，”妻子吓坏了，“那准是恶魔！他不是要苹果树，他要的是我们女儿，她正在磨房后面扫院子呢。”
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ My wife must arrange to lose time at work and not lose the job. It may mean a small cut in my wife's income from time to time, but I guess I can tolerate that. Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working.
她也许会因此而耽误了工作，减少了薪金，可那没多大要紧，她得边工作边照看家庭。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean reconciliation with the person who upset you or condoning of his or her action.
记着，原谅并不必然意味着顺从让你心烦的人或是宽恕他（或她）的行为。
◇ This means it must have happened soon after the Big Bang itself,while the intensity of the radiation revealed it to be the biggest bang recorded by man.
意思就是它在大爆炸发生不久就发生了。极大的爆炸强度使人们把它记载为史上最大的爆炸。
---- The Big Bang
◇ The forum said the only way to avoid a disaster is to massively improve the economics and uptake of recycling. That means giving people incentives to collect plastic garbage and recycle, use reusable packaging, and encourage countries to drastically improve their waste collection infrastructure, to avoid plastic garbage leaking into the nature.
该论坛发表声明说，避免这一灾难的唯一途径就是大力改善经济结构，提高循环使用率。这意味着激励人们去回收并循环使用塑料垃圾，使用可重复使用的包装袋，鼓励各国大力改善废物回收设施，以防止塑料垃圾排放到自然环境中。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ One day he decided to show them what he meant.He called all the sons together and put a tightly tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them.
有一天，他决定经过示范把自我的意思告诉他们。他把四个儿子都叫来，又把一捆扎得很紧的细树枝放在他们面前的地上。
---- A Bundle of Sticks
◇ By the time you wake up, you likely haven't eaten for 10 or 12 hours, which is where breakfast got its name — it means "breaking the fast," DeFazio said.
早晨醒来，你已经10到12个小时没有进食，这就是“早餐”名字的来源，意思是“打破禁食”。
---- Bad habits you should break
◇ This doesn't mean to not keep your clothes clean but there are some tips in place to ensure that washing your clothes doesn't cause them any damage.
这并不是说别把衣物洗干净，但有一些小技巧能确保你清洗的时候不会破坏衣物。
---- How to hang, wash, and care for clothes
◇ Mr Liu also says the robot will soon be equipped with the necessary technology to operate a lift, meaning it will no longer be confined to ground-floor deliveries.
刘智勇还说，不久之后他们就能给这款机器人配备必须的技术，让它能够搭乘电梯，也就是说，今后不再限于一楼取货了。
---- 'Little yellow horse' robot delivers useful service in China