【means音标】 英[mi:nz] 美[mi:nz]
【单词释义】 means是什么意思：
n.方法（mean的名词复数）；手段；收入；财富
v.意味着（mean的第三人称单数）；引起；打算或注定要某人成为或做某事
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
【单词例句】
◇ Start of Winter is the first solar term of winter, which means winter is coming and crops harvested in autumn should be stored up.
立冬是冬季的第一个节气，意味着冬天来临，秋天收获的粮食应该储存起来了。
---- Start of Winter
◇ At first, he made a living by means of raising cattle and then was hired in aircraft industries.
起初，他借助饲养牲畜谋生，后来受雇于飞机制造工业。
---- Immigrate to America
◇ In a college accessible to him, he studied politics and literature. He always sat in the front row near the entry without any absence and, with the help of his handy laptop, he studied well by means of dictation.
他在一所接受他就读的学校里学习政治和文学，总是坐在靠近入口的前排，从不缺席。在他轻便好用的手提电脑的帮助下，他用听写的方式学习得很好。
---- Defeat Disability
◇ For example, yawning means being not interested and turning one’s back to someone or swinging your fist shows your anger.
例如，打哈欠意味着不感兴趣，背对别人或向其挥舞拳头表达的是愤怒。
---- A Misunderstanding
◇ The lords of the bedchamber, who were to carry his Majesty's train felt about on the ground, as if they were lifting up the ends of the mantle; and pretended to be carrying something; for they would by no means betray anything like simplicity, or unfitness for their office.
那些将要托着后裾的内臣们，都把手在地上东摸西摸，好像他们真的在拾其后裾似的。他们开步走，手中托着空气— —他们不敢让人瞧出他们实在什么东西也没有看见。
◇ The pesticides left behind on the skin of produce are fat-soluble, which basically just means they aren't as easy to get rid of.
残留在农产品表皮上的农药是脂溶性的，这意味着它们没那么容易被去除。
---- How to washing your fruits and veggies
◇ The revised figures reflect the downward trend in the global fertility rate, which means the populations of more countries are shrinking.
修正后的数据反映出全球生育率下降的趋势，这意味着更多国家的人口正在减少。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ So they did not go to house where the sign outside said "VACANCLES", which in English means there are free rooms.
所以他们没有去外面写着“VACANCLES”的房子，在英语中，这意味着有免费房间。
---- The difference between vacaciones and holidays
◇ The new study does not, by any means, provide a concrete verdict on breakfast.
然而这项新研究并未对于早餐的健康影响给出确切结论。
---- Skipping breakfast could raise risk of heart disease by 87%
◇ Second biggest myth, snow isn’t white. It’s actually colorless. Snow is made up of ice particles, and ice is translucent, which means that light does not pass through it easily, but rather it gets reflected.
这是第二大误区，但其实雪不是白色的，而是无色的。雪是由冰晶分子组成的，而冰是半透明的，也就是说光线不能很轻易地穿透它，而会被其反射。