mean

音标发音

• 英式音标 [miːn]
• 美式音标 [miːn]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 用意；意味着；意欲；引起；十分熟悉；严肃地说；意义重大；预示
• adj. 吝啬的；刻薄的；低劣的；凶狠的；平均的；简陋的；出身卑贱的；（非正式）有效的
• n. 平均值；中庸
• n. (Mean) （柬）棉（人名）

词源解说

• 直接源自古英语的mnan；最初源自西日耳曼语的mainijanan，意为说，告诉，抱怨。

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  meaning：意味深长的。

  meaningful：有意义的；意味深长的。

  meaningless：无意义的；无目的的。

• adv性质的同根词

  meaningfully：有意义地；意味深长地；有意图地。

  meanly：卑贱地；吝啬地；简陋地。

• n性质的同根词

  meaning：意义；含义；意图。

  meanness：卑鄙；吝啬；劣等。

  meaningfulness：有意义，富有意义。

  meaninglessness：无意义；无道理。

  meany：小气鬼；刻薄鬼；卑鄙家伙。

• v性质的同根词

  meaning：意味；意思是（mean的ing形式）。

• mean相关词

用法辨析

v. (动词)

• mean的基本意思是“表示…的意思”,指某一动作或某件事物(如字母、信号等)具有某种意思,这一事物与其现在所表达意思是相同的。mean也可指“本意是,原意为”,指某一件事物最初的意思,这个意思与其现在所表示的意思可能不同。mean还可指“有某种重要性”。
• mean多用作及物动词,其后可接名词、代词、动名词、动词不定式或that/wh-从句作宾语,有时还可接双宾语。mean也可接由动词不定式或“to be/as+ n. ”充当补足语的复合宾语。mean偶尔也可用作不及物动词。
• mean作“打算,企图”解时,要搭用动词不定式作宾语,此时如以非谓语动词作主语,则该主语须用动名词。作“意味着”解,则要搭用动名词作宾语,此时如以非谓语动词作主语,则该主语须用动词不定式。
• mean后不可搭用否定的动词不定式。
• mean常用于过去完成时或一般过去时表示“希望”“预料”“打算”未能完成或未能实现。用于过去完成时时,多半搭用动词不定式的一般时态; 用于一般过去时则可搭用动词不定式的完成时,也可搭用一般时。
• 在口语中如出现口误,可用I mean来修正,意为“不,我是说”,也可用此(即通过解释、重复或添加新的内容)来把已经说过的话说得更清楚些,还可用此表示不同意某事。
• what do you mean可用于表示讨厌的事或不同意某人刚说过的话,也可用来引出愤怒的抗议。

adj. (形容词)

• mean用作形容词时的意思是“吝啬的,自私的”,指对属于自己的东西格外的小气,不想让别人得到,或做事情只想到自己,而不替他人着想。mean也可指做事情采取不正当的或有损他人利益的手段,即“卑鄙的,不善良的”; 也可指心地不善良,即“刻毒的,邪恶的”。mean还可指某人或某事处于不高不低(或不长不短)的水平,即“中间的,平均的”。mean引申可指“难看的,劣质的,简陋的”“低劣的,平庸的”“出身微贱的,社会地位低下的”等。
• mean可用来修饰人或具体的事物,也可以修饰抽象的事物。用作表语时,可接介词短语或动词不定式。

n. (名词)

• mean用作名词时的意思是“中间,中庸”,指某事处于中间状态。也可表示“平均数,平均值”,指将两个或两个以上不同的数字相加,然后用相加后的总和再除以相加的数字的个数所得到的数。

• mean使用方法
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英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• He means ill towards us.
  他对我们怀着恶意。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• The German word ya means “yes”.
  德语ya这个词的意思是“是的”。

S+～+to- v

• Do you mean to tell me you don't care for modern art?
  你的意思是告诉我你不喜欢现代艺术,是不是?

S+～+ v -ing

• These new orders for our manufacturers will mean working overtime.
  这些订购我们产品的新订单意味着要加班。

S+～+that-clause

• The sign means that cars cannot enter.
  这种标志表示汽车不能入内。

S+～+wh-clause

• It doesn't mean what you thought it meant.
  它不表示你认为它表示的那个意思。

用作双宾动词: S+～+ pron./n. + n./pron.

• He means you no harm.
  他对你没有恶意。

S+～+ n./pron. +for pron./n.

• She meant this gift for you.
  这礼物是送给你的。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to be/as n.

• No one meant him to be a great man.
  没人要他成为伟人。

S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

• I mean you to do the exercise by yourself.
  我是要你独自完成作业。

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语: ～+ n.

• He is a mean man.
  他是个自私的人。

用作表语: S+be+～

• He's the last person I'll like, he's so mean and wicked.
  他是我最不喜欢的人,他又卑鄙又邪恶。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• He is mean about money.
  他吝啬钱。

S+be+～+to- v

• She's too mean to make a donation.
  她很小气,不肯捐款。

It is/was+～+(of sb) to- v

• It is mean to spread gossip about others.
  散布有关他人的流言是卑鄙的。

用作名词 (n.)

• The mean of 7,9 and 14 is 10.7,9
  和14的平均数为10。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• mean business [口]当真
• mean consent 意味着同意
• mean rain 意味着有雨
• mean success 意味着成功
• mean war 预示着战争

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (EXPRESS) to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
• (HAVE RESULT) to have a particular result
• (INTEND) to intend
• (HAVE IMPORTANCE) to have an important emotional effect on someone
• (NOT GENEROUS) not willing to give or share things, especially money
• (NOT KIND) unkind or unpleasant
• (VIOLENT) frightening and likely to become violent
• (GOOD) very good
• (BAD QUALITY) poor, dirty, and of bad quality
• (MATHEMATICS) a mean number is an average number
• (MATHEMATICS) the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts
• (METHOD) a quality or way of doing something that is in the middle of two completely different qualities or ways of doing something

柯林斯英英字典

• If you want to know what a word, code, signal, or gesture means, you want to know what it refers to or what its message is.
• If you ask someone what they mean, you are asking them to explain exactly what or who they are referring to or what they are intending to say.
• If something means something to you, it is important to you in some way.
• If one thing means another, it shows that the second thing exists or is true.
• If one thing means another, the first thing leads to the second thing happening.
• If doing one thing means doing another, it involves doing the second thing.
• If you say that you mean what you are saying, you are telling someone that you are serious about it and are not joking, exaggerating, or just being polite.
• If you say that someone meant to do something, you are saying that they did it deliberately.
• If you say that someone did not mean any harm, offence, or disrespect, you are saying that they did not intend to upset or offend people or to cause problems, even though they may in fact have done so.
• If you mean to do something, you intend or plan to do it.
• If you say that something was meant to happen, you believe that it was made to happen by God or fate, and did not just happen by chance.
• You say "I mean" when making clearer something that you have just said.
• You can use "I mean" to introduce a statement, especially one that justifies something that you have just said.
• You say I mean when correcting something that you have just said.
• If you know what it means to do something, you know everything that is involved in a particular activity or experience, especially the effect that it has on you.
• If a name, word, or phrase means something to you, you have heard it before and you know what it refers to.
• You use "you mean" in a question to check that you have understood what someone has said.
• &rarrsee also meaning , means , meant
• you know what I mean&rarrsee know
• If someone is being mean, they are being unkind to another person, for example by not allowing them to do something.
• If you describe a person or animal as mean, you are saying that they are very bad-tempered and cruel.
• If you describe someone as mean, you are being critical of them because they are unwilling to spend much money or to use very much of a particular thing.
• The mean is a number that is the average of a set of numbers.
• intermediate or medium in size, quantity, etc
• &rarrsee also means

• mean剑桥字典
• mean柯林斯字典

专业释义

计算机科学技术

• 均值

  This paper proposes a Mean Shift tracking method for fusion image.
  提出一种针对融合图像的均值位移跟踪方法。

• 平均值
• 意义
• 平均

经济学

• 均值

  Based on the classical mean filter, this paper puts forward an improved mean filter digital image algorithm.
  在对传统均值滤波研究的基础上，提出了一种改进的数字图像均值滤波算法。

  数学

• 平均

  An attemptalso be take to the constant rank property of the level set of some prescribed mean curvature hypersurfaces.
  本文亦对预定平均曲率超曲面的水平集的常秩定理作了尝试。

• （平）均数
• 平均数

机械工程

• 平均数
• 中数

电子、通信与自动控制技术

• 期望值
• 平均值

地球科学

• 均值

生物学

• 平均的