1·You're a horrid, mean thing.
你这个令人讨厌的自私鬼。
2·Certainly not! I won't do such a mean thing.
当然不是！我才不会做如此卑鄙的事。
3·Cheating such an old man was a mean thing to do.
欺骗这样一个老人实在很卑鄙。
4·The mean thing! I told her not to tell you I told her.
卑鄙的东西！我叫她不要把我跟她说的告诉你。
5·He asserted again that he didn't do such mean thing, but nobody believed.
他一再声称自己没有做那么卑鄙的事，但没人相信。
6·That's a mean-spirited thing for a mother to say.
作为一位母亲，说那样的话太刻薄了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
7·Ignore what he said—it doesn't mean a thing.
别理睬他说的话，他那都是瞎说。
—— 《牛津词典》
8·Keep it, it will be just the same thing, for I mean to make you my wife.
你留着吧，反正是一样的，因为我要娶你为妻。
9·I mean, for one thing, the project established a lot of…uh like community art centers and galleries in places like rural areas where people hadn't really had access to the arts.
我的意思是，首先，这个项目在一些地方建立了很多……嗯，社区艺术中心和画廊之类，比如在农村地区，那里的人们没有机会接触艺术。
10·Do they really mean the same thing?
它们的意思果真是一样的吗？