A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意味着
Means
Utopia means elsewhere.
乌托邦意味着在其他地方。
I live way below my means.
我的生活入不敷出。
I don't know what love means.
我不知道爱是什么。
My work means everything to me.
我的工作对我来说意味着一切。
My body of work means nothing to me.
我的工作对我毫无意义。
Empowering women means trusting them.
赋予妇女权力意味着信任她们。
Stability means respecting precedents.
稳定意味着尊重先例。
For I can raise no money by vile means.
因为我不能用卑鄙的手段筹到钱。
Liberty means more to me than life itself.
对我来说,自由比生命本身更重要。
There's place and means for every man alive.
每个活着的人都有自己的位置和生活方式。
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
膨胀意味着复杂性和复杂性的衰减。
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
我们使用的手段必须和我们追求的目的一样纯洁。
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
善的目的不能使恶的手段成圣;我们也不可作恶,为要得福乐。
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
对我来说,故事就是有一些惊喜的情节。因为这就是生活——充满惊喜。
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
什么是邪教?这只是意味着没有足够的人成为少数。
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
手段的完善和目标的混乱似乎是我们的主要问题。
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
一个男人的脑袋特别漂亮通常意味着他很愚蠢;特别深刻的哲学家通常是肤浅的思想家;在文学作品中,不高于平均水平的才能通常被同时代的人视为天才。
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。