Meaning

(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' .

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• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I do not apprehend your meaning. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Therefore I checked myself, and made my meaning plainer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The Meaning of Vocation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I am afraid I should do it very awkwardly, was his reply, with a look of meaning. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She could only tell me that it was 'just the news,'--meaning, I suppose, that they all talked as usual about each other. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Names give abstract meanings a physical locus and body. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The term value has two quite different meanings. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And I considered whether, if it should signify any one of these meanings, which was so very likely, could I quite answer for myself? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Perception of meanings depends upon perception of connections, of context. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• His countenance was overlaid with legible meanings. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He must not simply learn the signs, but the established grouping of those signs to represent various meanings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Nothing is more striking than the difference between an activity as merely physical and the wealth of meanings which the same activity may assume. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The meanings with which activities become charged, concern nature and man. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• AS matter of fact, any subject is cultural in the degree in which it is apprehended in its widest possible range of meanings. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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