| 释义 |
Examples:means of transportation —gain profit (by underhand means)—think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means—a message transmitted using electronic means—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—as suffix city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture level city or county level city)—ownership of the means of production (in Marxism)—destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means—external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); say what one means—smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)—send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc)—by no means an isolated case—amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means—different routes the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end—lit. break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat—use every possible means (toward a goal)—lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means—facilitate by means of bribery—succeed by means fair or foul—use different means obtain the same result [idiom.]—To live within one's means.—exhaust every means to achieve sth [idiom.]—near ancient history (often taken mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)—morally loose, lewd and low, lascivious and mean—say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word—relevant (used with negative mean totally irrelevant)—gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure [idiom.]— |