Edmond welcomed the meeting with this fellow — who had been one of his own sailors — as a sure means of testing the extent of the change which time had worked in his own appearance.

这个人曾在他手下干过，爱德蒙一看见这个人就大声叫住了他，想借此对自己外表上所起的变化作一番精确的考验。

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To be honest, I'm not really sure what this means.

诚实地说，我不是很肯定这意味着什么。

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I'm not even sure what it means.

我甚至不确定这意味着什么。

youdao

We are not sure if Muhammad means the favorite sport to watch or to play so we will include both.

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to see the TAs because you can't do them, by all means make sure you get some help.

我们会帮助你的，因此我并不认为这是。

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I'm sure you don't really know what that means.

也不知道这句的意思。

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Although he was a Christian and a Quaker, his plays laid out no sure means of salvation and no clear sense of a presiding power, benign or otherwise.

ECONOMIST: Christopher Fry

We will, instead, be working to disrupt, attack and destroy the terrorist networks and their sponsors, including where necessary, inducing regime change as the only sure means of ending the menace they pose to us all.

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In the final analysis, however, it believes that a far more sure means of providing for the future security of the United States and its allies is to bring about the urgent, radical transformation of the Soviet political and economic system.

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