Signify

(verb.) convey or express a meaning; 'These words mean nothing to me!'; 'What does his strange behavior signify?'.

(verb.) make known with a word or signal; 'He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal'.

录入:纳丁

• And what does it signify whether unmarried and never-to-be-married women are unattractive and inelegant or not? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The gentleman says it does not signify, was my footman's answer. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I thought it would not signify to him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Therefore, what does that signify to ME! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Had I known as much half an hour agoBut since I AM here,speaking with a forced vivacity as he returned to his seatwhat does it signify? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• A little redness or a little matter of Bone, here or there, what does it signify to Me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She had lost his name, and could only signify him by his hammer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I signified my readiness to proceed, but our guides protested against such a measure. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Leave being signified by a gesture, Shirley was presently enlightened on what had happened in her absence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then she quickly pressed her hand up on Wildeve's arm and signified to him to come back from the open side of the shed into the shadow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But in the vernacular, the mind proceeds directly from the symbol to the thing signified. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Harriet signified that she had already made that inquiry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• With which words, which signified his opinion that the regiment would march the next morning, the Major ceased talking, and fell asleep. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When I had signified my full consent to the conditions of her will, she told me I was a generous boy, and she was proud of me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It signifies, he intimated, bloodshed and civil conflict. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It signifies that an activity has become intelligent. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But what signifies our wishing? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• All he had yet said, I could count as mere sound and fury, signifying nothing: not so of the present attack. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Their mamma, however, signifying acquiescence in the project, they fetched their bonnets, and the trio set out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They are not aware his uproars are all sound and fury, signifying nothing! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is antithetical to random and ill-considered action,--ill-considered signifying ill-adapted. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Signifying in Quod, Miss? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:诺琳