Meaning
['miːnɪŋ] or ['minɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the idea that is intended; 'What is the meaning of this proverb?'.
(noun.) the message that is intended or expressed or signified; 'what is the meaning of this sentence'; 'the significance of a red traffic light'; 'the signification of Chinese characters'; 'the import of his announcement was ambiguous'.
(adj.) rich in significance or implication; 'a meaning look' .
布赖恩手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mean
(n.) That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
(n.) That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
(n.) Sense; power of thinking.
編輯:莎蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, object.[2]. Signification, sense, acceptation, explanation, interpretation.[3]. Import, purport, significance.
錄入:温思罗普
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Signification, import, significance, purport, sense, aim,[See IMPORT]
手打:所罗门
例句/造句/用法:
- Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I do not apprehend your meaning. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Therefore I checked myself, and made my meaning plainer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The Meaning of Vocation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I am afraid I should do it very awkwardly, was his reply, with a look of meaning. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She could only tell me that it was 'just the news,'--meaning, I suppose, that they all talked as usual about each other. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Names give abstract meanings a physical locus and body. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The term value has two quite different meanings. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And I considered whether, if it should signify any one of these meanings, which was so very likely, could I quite answer for myself? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Perception of meanings depends upon perception of connections, of context. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His countenance was overlaid with legible meanings. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He must not simply learn the signs, but the established grouping of those signs to represent various meanings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Nothing is more striking than the difference between an activity as merely physical and the wealth of meanings which the same activity may assume. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The meanings with which activities become charged, concern nature and man. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- AS matter of fact, any subject is cultural in the degree in which it is apprehended in its widest possible range of meanings. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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