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A mixed system means that high-speed trains must travel on the regular tracks on certain routes or when passing through large cities.

混合系统意味着高速列车在某些线路上或经过大城市时必须在普通轨道上行驶。

It will allow for a reduction of the distance between high-speed trains travelling on the same line at any given time, which should mean a significant increase in capacity and traffic fluidity, according to Giuricin.

据朱里钦说，这将缩短任一时刻同一线路上行驶的高速列车之间的距离，这应当意味着运力和交通流畅度的显著提升。

These take-off shots are even more challenging because they require a wide-angle lens, which means he must be less than 2cm from the butterfly.

这些起飞镜头更具挑战性，因为它们需要用广角镜头，这意味着他必须离蝴蝶不到2厘米。

This form of accessible science means that great minds are able to join the race to create and develop projects with the potential to change the world.

这种人人可及的科学形式意味着，杰出的头脑能够加入这场竞赛，去创建和开发有潜力改变世界的项目。

Because writing a new script — literally or figuratively — means that other team members will have to adapt to something new.

因为写一个新剧本——无论是字面意义上还是比喻意义上——都意味着其他团队成员必须适应新的东西。

“Whatever we mean by the economy growing, by things getting better, the gains will have to be more evenly shared than in the recent past,” she writes.

她写道：“无论我们所说的经济增长、情况变好指的是什么，收益都必须比近年来分配得更加均衡。”

The dominance of a few cities in the invention and commercialization of AI means that geographical disparities in wealth will continue to soar.

少数城市在人工智能发明和商业化方面的主导地位意味着财富的地域差距将继续急剧扩大。

Section 5 of the FTC Act empowers the FTC to initiate enforcement action against unfair or deceptive acts, meaning the FTC can only act after the fact if a company’s privacy practices are misleading or cause unjustified consumer harm.

《联邦贸易委员会法》第5条授权联邦贸易委员会对不公平或欺骗性行为采取执法行动，这意味着只有当一家公司的隐私做法具有误导性或对消费者造成不当损害时，联邦贸易委员会才能事后采取行动。

This word “Caravanserais” is a [combination] of the Persian words “Karvan”, which means a group of travellers or a caravan, and “saray”, a palace or enclosed building.

“Caravanserais”这个词是波斯语单词“Karvan”和“saray”的组合，前者意为一群旅行者或商队，后者意为宫殿或封闭的建筑。

Even if a state is considered a high performer in its science standards, “that does not mean it will be taught”, he says.

他说，即便一个州的科学标准被认为表现出色，“那也不意味着这些内容就会被讲授”。

He wanted viewers to walk around on the carpets — which meant they had to be durable.

他希望观众在地毯上走来走去——这意味着这些地毯必须经久耐用。

Oman rated Scovell’s significance highly, but at the same time, the general nature of his History meant that (48) he could not analyze carefully what this obscure officer may or may not have contributed to that great struggle between nations or indeed tell us anything much about the man himself.

欧曼对斯科维尔的重要性评价很高，但与此同时，由于他的《半岛战争史》是一部通史，（48）他无法仔细分析这位无名军官在那场国家间的伟大斗争中可能做出或未曾做出的贡献，也无法告诉我们关于此人的更多情况。

Depending on your [interests] and your lifestyle, that might mean spending less time watching television or listening to music, though some people can write [while] they listen to music.

根据你的兴趣和生活方式，这可能意味着少花时间看电视或听音乐，尽管有些人可以一边听音乐一边写作。

That means prioritising our activities so that we spend most time on the things we really want to do.

这意味着要给我们的活动排好优先次序，以便把大部分时间花在我们真正想做的事情上。

If you are a writer, that means — [above all] — writing.

如果你是一名作家，那就意味着——最重要的是——写作。

The regulations aim to ban dark patterns — this means prohibiting companies from using “confusing language or unnecessary steps such as forcing them to click through multiple screens or listen to reasons why they shouldn’t opt out.”

这些法规旨在禁止暗黑模式——这意味着禁止公司使用“令人困惑的语言或不必要的步骤，例如强迫消费者点击多个页面，或听取他们为什么不应该选择退出的理由”。

Changes in the light, the limitations of your painting materials, and the lack of experience and technique mean that what you start out trying to achieve may not come to life the way that you expected.

光线的变化、绘画材料的局限以及经验和技巧的不足，都意味着你一开始想要实现的效果可能无法以你预期的方式呈现出来。

But exposure times were much quicker by the 1880s, and the introduction of the Box Brownie and other portable cameras meant that, though slow by today’s digital standards, the exposure was almost instantaneous.

但到了19世纪80年代，曝光时间已经快多了，而布朗尼盒式相机和其他便携式相机的问世意味着，尽管按今天的数码标准来看仍然很慢，但曝光几乎是瞬间完成的。

That means more battles like the one now going on between the Justice Department and California, which enacted a tough net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC’s abdication.

这意味着将出现更多类似司法部与加利福尼亚州之间正在进行的这种斗争——加州在FCC放弃职责之后颁布了一部严格的网络中立法。

This can mean millions more in revenue.

这可能意味着数百万的额外收入。

In the medical field, to take an obvious example, the pandemic meant that there were still clear shortages of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel.

举个明显的例子，在医疗领域，疫情意味着医生、护士和其他医务人员仍然明显短缺。

To become much more self-sufficient, the UK would need to drastically reduce its consumption of animal foods, and probably also farm more intensively — meaning fewer green fields and more factory-style production.

要大幅提高自给率，英国需要大幅减少动物性食品的消费，可能还要进行更集约化的耕作——这意味着更少的绿地和更多工厂式的生产。

This means that people should [avoid] crisping their roast potatoes, reject thin-crust pizzas and only [partially] toast their bread.

这意味着人们应该避免把烤土豆烤得焦脆，拒绝薄饼比萨，烤面包也只能烤到部分焦黄。

Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a “GAFA tax,” meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States.

许多法国政界人士和媒体将其称为“GAFA税”，意思是该税主要针对谷歌、苹果、脸书和亚马逊等公司——换句话说，就是总部设在美国的跨国科技公司。

But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very [tricky], particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting.

但要界定做一个好父母意味着什么无疑是非常棘手的，尤其是因为孩子们对同一种养育方式的反应各不相同。

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits.

这些区域确实带来了一定的空气质量改善，而科学告诉我们，这意味着实实在在的健康益处。

For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention — so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

对公立院校来说，州政府的拨款有时部分取决于它们在毕业率和学生保留率等指标上的表现——因此，更好的成绩可以通过提升这类数据而带来更多资金。

What does the phrase “to be aligned” (Para. 6) most probably mean?

短语“to be aligned”（第6段）最可能是什么意思？

But that doesn’t mean crucial ethical issues involving AI aren’t at hand.

但这并不意味着与人工智能相关的关键伦理问题还没有到来。

These tools can help you win every argument — not in the unhelpful sense of beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that divide people, learning why they disagree with us and learning to talk and work together with them. If we readjust our view of arguments — from a verbal fight or tennis game to a reasoned exchange through which we all gain mutual respect and understanding — then we change the very nature of what it means to “win” an argument.

这些方法可以帮助你赢得每一场争论——不是在击败对手这种无益的意义上，而是在更好的意义上：了解使人们产生分歧的问题，了解他们为什么与我们意见不同，并学会与他们交谈和合作。如果我们重新调整对争论的看法——从口头争斗或网球比赛转变为一种理性的交流，通过这种交流我们都能获得相互尊重和理解——那么我们就改变了“赢得”争论的本质含义。

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

这可能意味着实施诸如塑料税之类的政策，为有害环境的行为增加成本，或者干脆全面禁止一次性塑料。

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.

交谈就是纽带，这意味着当你与一个新认识的人交谈时，一条纽带就形成了，而此后你们的每一次交谈都会加强这条纽带。

Tronick believes that just because a child isn’t learning from the screen doesn’t mean there’s no value to it — particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.

特罗尼克认为，孩子没有从屏幕上学到东西并不意味着屏幕没有价值——尤其是如果它能让父母有时间洗个澡、做做家务，或者只是从照看孩子中歇口气。

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

把时间看作一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你以工具性的方式对待它，只有当某一时刻推动了朝向某个目标的进展时，才认为它得到了很好的利用。

Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?

这是否意味着身着华丽制服、过着威严生活的欧洲王室全都大限将至？

The word “moola” (Line 4, Para.4) most probably means ____

单词“moola”（第四段第4行）最可能的意思是____

This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.

根据即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的一篇论文那令人沮丧的开头，这造成了“一个悖论”：招收第一代大学生，却眼看着他们中的许多人失败，这意味着高等教育“一直在复制并扩大而非缩小”基于社会阶层的成就差距。

But if your work is your “passion,” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it, even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed.

但如果工作是你的“激情”所在，你就更可能全身心投入其中，哪怕这意味着回家吃完晚饭后，在孩子上床睡觉很久以后还在工作。

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

非自愿兼职工作的增加是劳动力市场疲软的证据，这意味着许多人将难以维持生计。

The phrase “to sign on” (Para. 2) most probably means ____

短语“to sign on”（第2段）最有可能的意思是____

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

法学院的债务意味着他们不得不拼命工作。

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

音乐对不同的人意味着不同的东西，有时甚至对同一个人在其人生的不同时刻也意味着不同的东西。

“Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality,” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor.

“健康的乐观意味着与现实保持联系，”哈佛大学教授泰勒·本-沙哈尔说。

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

周转更快意味着积压浪费的库存更少、新品发布更频繁、利润更高。

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of “float” — it takes several days [before] a check is cashed and funds are [withdrawn] from the issuer’s account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meantime.

第三，使用纸质支票能给消费者带来几天的“浮存期”——支票兑现、资金从开票人账户中划出之前需要几天时间，这意味着开票人在此期间可以赚取这笔资金的利息。

The fact that this is not an [uncommon] occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and [steal] from someone else’s accounts.

这种事并不罕见，这意味着不法之徒可能侵入电子支付系统中的银行账户，从他人账户中窃取钱财。

Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes, including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.

超越文化战争中非对即错的逻辑，意味着开辟中间地带，并认识到如今的移民管理需要多种途径和多种结果，其中包括一些在现行体制下难以合法实现的结果。

Prior knowledge and interests influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

先前的知识和兴趣影响着我们经历什么、我们认为这些经历意味着什么，以及我们随后采取的行动。

meaning

意思是

By saying “it is...the rainbow” (Para.1), the author means pink ____

作者说“它是……彩虹”（第1段），意思是粉色____

By saying “Each meeting was packed” (Para. 6), the author means that ____

作者说“每场会议都座无虚席”（第6段），意思是____

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men.

从文艺复兴最早期起，书写历史就意味着讲述伟人的模范人生。

The word “poached” (Paragraph 4) most probably means ____

单词“poached”（第4段）最可能的意思是____

The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions means that marketing's impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media.

消费者如今做出购买决定的方式意味着，营销的影响来源于传统付费媒体之外的诸多因素。

Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

尽管董事离职与公司随后表现不佳之间的相关性耐人寻味，但这并不意味着这些董事总是在弃沉船而逃。

Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

密斯的这句标志性名言的意思是：少量装饰只要布置得当，会比大量装饰更有感染力。

Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.

说白了，这意味着政客干预货币政策，并建立一种从较富裕成员国向较贫穷成员国进行再分配的体系，途径是通过共同欧元债券让各国政府以更低成本借贷，或者实行完全的财政转移。