mean的英语

mean[英][mi:n][美][min]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; 第三人称单数：means复数：means现在进行时：meaning过去式：meant过去分词：meant比较级：meaner最高级：meanest动词用法1.V-T If you want to know what a word, code, signal, or gesture means, you want to know what it refers to or what its message is. 意思是…例："Credible" means "believable."的意思是。What does "evidence" mean?是什么意思？2.V-T If you ask someone what they mean, you are asking them to explain exactly what or who they are referring to or what they are intending to say. 意指例：Do you mean me?你指我吗？Let me illustrate what I mean with an old story.让我用一个老故事来说明我指的是什么吧。3.V-T If something means something to you, it is important to you in some way. (对某人) 很重要例：The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.他知道她目击了这可耻的一幕，但这对他来说并不重要。4.V-T If one thing means another, it shows that the second thing exists or is true. 表明…的存在; 表明…属实例：An enlarged prostate does not necessarily mean cancer.肿大的前列腺并不一定表明癌症的存在。5.V-T If one thing means another, the first thing leads to the second thing happening. 导致例：It would almost certainly mean the end of NATO.这的确几乎导致北大西洋公约组织的终结。6.V-T If doing one thing means doing another, it involves doing the second thing. 意味着例：Children universally prefer to live in peace and security, even if that means living with only one parent.孩子们普遍愿意过平静安宁的生活，即使那意味着只能和单亲生活在一起。7.V-T If you say that you mean what you are saying, you are telling someone that you are serious about it and are not joking, exaggerating, or just being polite. 对…当真例：He says you're fired if you're not back at work on Friday. And I think he meant it.他说如果你周五不回来上班的话，就会被解雇。我想他是当真的。8.V-T If you say that someone meant to do something, you are saying that they did it deliberately. 有意例：I didn't mean to hurt you.我不是有意要伤害你。If that sounds harsh, it is meant to.如果那声音听起来是刺耳的，它就是如此。9.V-T If you say that someone did not mean any harm, offence, or disrespect, you are saying that they did not intend to upset or offend people or to cause problems, even though they may in fact have done so. 本意为例：I'm sure he didn't mean any harm.我敢肯定他本无恶意。10.V-T If you mean to do something, you intend or plan to do it. 打算例：Summer is the perfect time to catch up on the new books you meant to read.夏天是补看想读的新书的最佳时间。11.V-T If you say that something was meant to happen, you believe that it was made to happen by God or fate, and did not just happen by chance. 注定例：John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together.约翰不停地安慰我说，我们注定在一起。12.PHRASE You say "I mean" when making clearer something that you have just said. 也就是说例：It was his idea. Gordon's, I mean.那是他的主意。也就是说，戈登的主意。13.PHRASE You can use "I mean" to introduce a statement, especially one that justifies something that you have just said. 我的意思是 (证明前述)例：I'm sure he wouldn't mind. I mean, I was the one who asked him.我肯定他不会介意。我的意思是，我就是问他的那个人。14.PHRASE You say I mean when correcting something that you have just said. 我刚才是说例：It was law or classics – I mean English or classics.那是法律或者古典文学–我是说，英语或者古典文学。15.PHRASE If you know what it means to do something, you know everything that is involved in a particular activity or experience, especially the effect that it has on you. (亲身) 体会了解例：I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances.我能切身体会在那样悲惨的情况下失去孩子的感觉。16.PHRASE If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to. 对某人来说意味着什么例："Oh, Gairdner," he said, as if that meant something to him.“啊，盖尔德纳，”他说道，好像这个名字对他来说意味着什么。17.PHRASE You use "you mean" in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said. 你是说 (疑问句中用于核实是否理解别人所说的话)例：What accident? You mean Christina's?什么事故？你是说克里斯蒂娜的那次吗？形容词用法mean /miːn/ (meaner,meanest)1.ADJ If someone is being mean, they are being unkind to another person, for example by not allowing them to do something. 不友好的例：The little girls had locked themselves in the room because Mack had been mean to them.这些小女孩们把自己锁在房间里，因为麦克对她们不友好。2.ADJ If you describe a person or animal as mean, you are saying that they are very bad-tempered and cruel. 脾气极坏的; 残忍的例：The state's former commissioner of prisons once called Leonard the meanest man he'd ever seen.这个州的前任监狱长曾经把伦纳德称为他所见过的最残忍的人。3.ADJ If you describe someone as mean, you are being critical of them because they are unwilling to spend much money or to use very much of a particular thing. 吝啬的名词用法mean /miːn/1.N-SING The mean is a number that is the average of a set of numbers. 平均数例：Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.取120个值计算平均数。

作动词的意思是打算；导致；意味；意思是。

作形容词的意思是低劣的；刻薄的；卑鄙的；出色的；吝啬的；平均的；中等的。

作名词的意思是平均值；平均数；中间；中庸。

副词是meanly。比较级是meaner。最高级是meanest。过去式是meant。过去分词是meant。现在分词是meaning。第三人称单数是means。

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用法

动词用法

1、mean的基本意思是“表示…的意思”,指某一动作或某件事物(如字母、信号等)具有某种意思,这一事物与其现在所表达意思是相同的。mean也可指“本意是,原意为”,指某一件事物最初的意思,这个意思与其现在所表示的意思可能不同。mean还可指“有某种重要性”。

2、mean多用作及物动词,其后可接名词、代词、动名词、动词不定式或that/wh-从句作宾语,有时还可接双宾语。mean也可接由动词不定式或“to be/as+ n. ”充当补足语的复合宾语。mean偶尔也可用作不及物动词。

3、mean作“打算,企图”解时,要搭用动词不定式作宾语,此时如以非谓语动词作主语,则该主语须用动名词。作“意味着”解,则要搭用动名词作宾语,此时如以非谓语动词作主语,则该主语须用动词不定式。

4、mean后不可搭用否定的动词不定式。

5、mean常用于过去完成时或一般过去时表示“希望”“预料”“打算”未能完成或未能实现。用于过去完成时时,多半搭用动词不定式的一般时态; 用于一般过去时则可搭用动词不定式的完成时,也可搭用一般时。

6、在口语中如出现口误,可用I mean来修正,意为“不,我是说”,也可用此(即通过解释、重复或添加新的内容)来把已经说过的话说得更清楚些,还可用此表示不同意某事。

7、what do you mean可用于表示讨厌的事或不同意某人刚说过的话,也可用来引出愤怒的抗议。

形容词用法

1、mean用作形容词时的意思是“吝啬的,自私的”,指对属于自己的东西格外的小气,不想让别人得到,或做事情只想到自己,而不替他人着想。mean也可指做事情采取不正当的或有损他人利益的手段,即“卑鄙的,不善良的”; 也可指心地不善良,即“刻毒的,邪恶的”。

mean还可指某人或某事处于不高不低(或不长不短)的水平,即“中间的,平均的”。mean引申可指“难看的,劣质的,简陋的”“低劣的,平庸的”“出身微贱的,社会地位低下的”等。

2、mean可用来修饰人或具体的事物,也可以修饰抽象的事物。用作表语时,可接介词短语或动词不定式。

名词用法

1、mean用作名词时的意思是“中间,中庸”,指某事处于中间状态。也可表示“平均数,平均值”,指将两个或两个以上不同的数字相加,然后用相加后的总和再除以相加的数字的个数所得到的数。

2、mean作“中间”解时,通常后接介词between表示“在…两者之间的折中办法”。

mean 英[mi:n] 美[min] v. 意思是; 表示…的意思; 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; [例句]In modern Welsh, 'glas' means 'blue'在现代威尔士语中，glas意为“蓝色”。