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Picture whatever stands between you and a goal — the way, the tool, the resource that gets you there. That one idea, 'what you use to reach an end', carries the whole word: sometimes it's a method (a means of travel), sometimes it's money (the resources you have to live on), and several fixed phrases (by all means, by no means, by means of) are just that same 'through this channel / by this route' worn into set expressions.
可以想成擋在你和目標之間、能帶你到達那裡的東西——方法、工具或資源。整個字都繞著「你拿來達成某事的東西」這一個念頭：…更多收起
可以想成擋在你和目標之間、能帶你到達那裡的東西——方法、工具或資源。整個字都繞著「你拿來達成某事的東西」這一個念頭：有時是一種方法（a means of travel 交通方式），有時是錢（你賴以維生的財力），而好幾個固定片語（by all means、by no means、by means of）也只是把同一個「經由這個管道／走這條路」磨成了現成的說法。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Meansname
- 1
A surname.
- 2
An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.
meansnoun/miːnz/
- 1
An instrument or condition to achieve a result.
- She treated him as a means to an end.
- A car is a means of transport.
meansnoun/miːnz/
- 1
Financial resources; wealth.
- a person of means; independent means
- He was living beyond his means.
- 2
Financial resources; wealth.
- She is a woman of means.
- Hotels that are so priced that only people of means can stay.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。