Adelaide Johnson said this unfinished area was meant to show that the struggle for women's equality was not over.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

For this sprite only, means local, only this function, only this script can use this variable, make this variable for all sprites, meant it was global.

对于只为一种精灵，意思是局部的，只有这个函数中，这个脚本中才可以用这个变量，这个变量为全部精灵而创建，意思是这个变量是全局的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The idea that America stood for some kind of progress, that America meant a prosperous future was just common coin.

那种美国代表了发展进步,代表了繁荣未来的想法是双方共有的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Brown said God meant for him to begin this rebellion by invading Virginia with a military force he already was organizing.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Gold was discovered there. Treaties and religion meant nothing to the white miners who rushed to the Black Hills to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Sacrifice was offered only on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which meant that slaughter of animals for meat in the countryside no longer has a sacral component to it. It's just ordinary, common, profane slaughter.

献祭只有在到耶路撒冷朝圣才能进行，这意味着,在乡下宰杀动物取肉不在有,神圣的元素它只是普通的，常见的，亵渎神明的宰杀。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A vote for Lincoln meant a vote for continuing the Civil War until it was won.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

What he meant was they were the charges put in the world for slaveholders to care for, and if possible, even to protect and perfect.

他的意思就是,奴隶是世界留给奴隶主来管理的财产,如果可能的话,还应保护和完善他们

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"I used to have a lot of expectations about what that meant and what it was for.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Baek Seung-joo, a North Korea researcher with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul, says he thinks the release was meant to blackmail the South.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"If I could get done what I think needs to get done in four years, even if it meant that I was only president for four years, I would rather be a good president taking on the tough issues for four years, than a mediocre president for eight years,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.19