meaning/connotation/definition/sense.导航词义：意思，含义

1. meaning:n. 意思，含义.普通用词，泛指语言、手势、符号等表达的意思。

Do you know the meaning of this painting?

你明白这幅画的含义吗？

The meaning of her words was clear.

她的话意思很清楚。

2. connotation:n. 隐含意义.指单词除基本意思之外所暗含的意义。

This word has a negative connotation in English.

这个词在英语中含有贬义。

The word 'expert' has connotations of skill and great knowledge.

“专家”一词带有技艺和丰富知识的含义。

3. definition:n. 定义，释义.尤指词典里列出的某个词、短语等的确切含义。

Many of the definitions in this dictionary are archaic or obsolete.

这本词典中的很多释义都是过时不用的。

What is your definition of success?

你对成功的定义是什么？

4. sense:n. 意义，意思.指单词、短语、句子等的意思。

The word 'sensible' has several different senses.

sensible一词有几种不同的意思。

Can you understand the sense of the entire poem?

你能理解这整首诗的意义吗？

全部

1·What's the meaning of this word?

这个单词的意思是什么？《牛津词典》

2·What, pray, is the meaning of this?

请问，这是什么意思？《牛津词典》

3·The word has many shades of meaning.

这个词有很多层意思。《牛津词典》

4·We cogitated on the meaning of life.

我们深思生命的意义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Your meaning didn't really get across.

你的意思并未真正为别人理解。《牛津词典》

6·I want to make my meaning crystal clear.

我想把我的意思解释得清清楚楚。《牛津词典》

7·With Anna he learned the meaning of love.

通过与安娜相处，他明白了爱意味着什么。《牛津词典》

8·I hadn't a clue as to the meaning of activism.

我对的意思一无所知。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·The literal meaning of 'petrify' is 'turn to stone'.

petrify的字面意思是turn to stone（变成石头）。《牛津词典》

10·'Honesty'? He doesn't know the meaning of the word !

“诚实”？他不明白这个词是什么意思！《牛津词典》

意义

1·We cogitated on the meaning of life.

我们深思生命的意义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·He spent the evening philosophizing on the meaning of life.

他整个晚上大谈人生的意义。《牛津词典》

3·Politicians have debased the meaning of the word freedom.

政治家们已经降低了“自由”一词的意义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Advertisements attempt to project a latent meaning behind an overt message.

广告试图传达一种隐藏在公开信息里的潜在意义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·As your horizons expand, these new ideas can give a whole new meaning to life.

随着你的眼界不断开阔，这些新观念将给你的生活赋予崭新的意义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

意思

1·What's the meaning of this word?

这个单词的意思是什么？《牛津词典》

2·The word has many shades of meaning.

这个词有很多层意思。《牛津词典》

3·Your meaning didn't really get across.

你的意思并未真正为别人理解。《牛津词典》

4·I want to make my meaning crystal clear.

我想把我的意思解释得清清楚楚。《牛津词典》

5·I hadn't a clue as to the meaning of activism.

我对的意思一无所知。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

含义

1·The teacher helped them tease out the meaning of the poem.

老师帮助他们弄清楚那首诗的含义。《牛津词典》

2·Unsure of the meaning of this remark, Ryle chose to remain silent.

由于对这个评论的含义不确定，赖尔选择了保持沉默。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·You should be able to guess the meaning of the word from the context.

你应该能从上下文猜出这个词的含义。《牛津词典》

4·When I adapt something I translate from one meaning to another as faithfully as I can.

我在改编的时候，我用尽量忠实于原文的方式把一种含义翻译为另一种。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·From a simple gesture or the speaker's tone of voice, the Japanese listener gleans the whole meaning.

从一个简单的手势或说话者的声调这位日本听者捕捉到全部含义。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

涵义

1·If you got an animal doll, lets we reveal the meaning of it.

如果你得到了一个动物娃娃，让我揭示他的涵义。

2·Gift meaning of puppy doll: if with roses, this doll is an excellent gift to say I love you to a girl for the first time.

狗娃娃：狗娃娃的礼物涵义：如果和玫瑰花放到一起，这个娃娃就是对女孩第一次说我爱你的完美礼物。

3·Let we start from the gift meaning of doll.

让我们从娃娃的礼物涵义开始。

4·Begin by understanding the true meaning of willpower.

从理解意志力的真正涵义开始。

5·Maybe there's another meaning, I said.

“也许还有另外一个涵义。”我说。

意

1·She felt sure the letter had some hidden meaning.

她确信那封信中有言外之意。《牛津词典》

2·The technical term for an evolutionary throwback is an atavism, from the Latin atavus, meaning forefather.

“进化返祖”的专业术语是“atavism”，源自拉丁语的“atavus”，意为祖先。

3·The root of his name is thought to come from an Indo-European root ei meaning “to go,” again, as one does through a doorway.

他的名字的来源被认为是来自印欧语系的一个词根，意为“向前走”，再一次的，需要经过一道门。

4·According to the theory of existentialism, Ba is a context, which harbours meaning.

根据存在主义的理论，“场所”是一个环境，有庇护所之意。

5·Poles call this idea the Uklad, an all-but-untranslatable word meaning “deal”, “arrangement” or “system”.

波兰人把这种想法叫做“布局”，这个词几乎没法翻译，意为“交易”、“安排”或“体系”。

义

1·So new words are roped in: “sick” meaning “great” is big in America, while in Britain “safe” shows signs of becoming the new “awesome”.

因此，新词就这样涌现出来了：“sick”一词在美国常被用来表达“great”之义；而在英国，“safe”有了成为新“awesome”的迹象。

2·Second, there are two aspects to sentence meaning: grammatical meaning and semantic meaning.

第二，句义包括两个方面：语法意义和语义意义。

3·Avoid the interference caused by th common meaning of certain morpheme in form in the correct understanding of meaning.

避免词形中某些语素的常用义对人们正确理解词义造成的干扰。

4·Chinese and English poems have different layers of meanings: literal, extended and meaning.

英汉诗歌具有意义的多层次性，即明示义、引伸义和象征义。

5·The study on the Modern Mongol semantics extends the field of research from lexical meaning to various basic factors such as sememe.

现代蒙古语语义研究从先前的主要对词义领域进行研究，继而又扩展到词义内部各种基本因素（义素、义位…）研究。

意味

1·Those with high perfectionism scores, meaning they placed high expectations on themselves to be perfect, had a 51-percent increased risk of death compared to those with low scores.

那些完美主义得分较高的人意味头颅他们对自己达到完美的期望较高，与那些得分较低的人相比，他们有高于51%的死亡风险率。

2·Earlier this month, Obama said if he is elected, he would like to withdraw U.S. troops at a pace of one-to-two brigades per month, meaning combat troops would be out in 16 months.

本月初，奥巴马说，他想要以每月撤回一到两个旅的进度来撤回驻伊美军，那意味美军战斗部队会在16个月内完全撤离伊拉克。

3·The genes for blue eyes and blonde hair are recessive, meaning both parents must have the genes for them to be expressed in their offspring.6.

对应于蓝眼睛和金色头发的基因都是隐形基因，这就意味只有父母双方同时拥有这种基因他们的后代才能表现出相应的特征。

4·The record has version bytes of 0x0301 meaning that Amazon agreed to our request to use TLS 1.0.

该记录的版本号是0x0301，也就意味这Amazon支持我们使用的TLS1.0版本的请求。

5·I considered the value of the original fairy tales; pondered the meaning of child beauty pageants; went online as a virtual girl; even attended a Miley Cyrus concert (so you know I was dedicated).

我承认童话最初的价值；思考炫耀孩子美貌的意味；在网上，做一个“虚拟”女孩；甚至参加MC音乐会(你该知道我有多投入了吧)。

意思是

1·Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning the first fruits of the harvest.

宽扎是一个基斯瓦希里语单词，意思是“最先收获的果实”。

2·Can you see why his name was changed into a verb meaning to tease or torment by arousing desire”?

你知道为什么他的名字变成了一个动词，意思是“通过激起欲望来戏弄或折磨”吗？

3·The Japanese call them tsunamis, meaning harbour waves, because they reach a sizable height only in harbours.

日本人称其为“海啸”，意思是“港湾浪”，因为它们只有在港口才能达到相当高的高度。

4·The site is a wiki, meaning any user can edit it.

其网站是维基，意思是任何使用者都能编辑它。

5·But credit comes from a Latin word meaning belief.

但是，贷款一词源于拉丁语，意思是信任。

含意

1·Much of the meaning must be inferred from the context.

大部分含意必须从上下文中推断。《牛津词典》

2·Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos.

评论家和公众苦思冥想出了他照片中的层层含意。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·You start by obtaining diagnostic information from the system (an error message, trace, or state dump) and attempt to analyze and understand its meaning.

首先从系统中获取诊断信息(错误消息、跟踪或状态转储)，然后尝试分析和理解其含意。

4·The candidate contains this passage: The XML Signature ... does not normatively specify how keys are associated with persons or institutions, nor the meaning of the data being referenced and signed.

候选方案包括这样一段︰「XML 签名……没有规范地指定如何将金钥与个人或社会团体相关联，也没有指定正在引用并签名的资料的含意。

5·Now, the meaning behind the paper-bag syndrome is more nuanced, and tinged with parsimonious romance.

现在，纸袋综合症背后的含意更加微妙，带着几分节俭的意味。

(1)meaning of life生活的意义；生命真义

(1)original meaning本义；原意

(1)no meaning没词义，没意义

(1)semantic meaning[语]语义

(1)social meaning社会意义

(1)literal meaning字面意义，字面意思；字义