B:Does that mean you’re not (going to take/ taking/ going to ride/ riding) the train to work anymore?
这是否意味着你不再(坐火车/搭火车/乘坐火车/乘火车)去上班?
A:Sometimes.
有时候会这样。
1. 注定(或肯定)要…
If you say that something was meant to happen, you believe that it was made to happen by God or fate, and did not just happen by chance.
e.g. John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together.
约翰不断安慰我说,我们注定要在一起。
2. 我的.意思是,也就是说(用于使表述更加清楚)
You say 'I mean' when making clearer something that you have just said.
e.g. It was his idea. Gordon's, I mean...
这是他的主意,我是指戈登。
e.g. Is something upsetting you—I mean, apart from this business?
有什么烦心事吗?我的意思是,除了这件事以外还有吗?
3. (用于引出主张,尤指证明自己刚才所说的话)
You can use 'I mean' to introduce a statement, especially one that justifies something that you have just said.
e.g. I'm sure he wouldn't mind. I mean, I was the one who asked him...
我肯定他不会在意的,因为是我问他的。
e.g. They were filled with racial stereotypes, I mean, it looked like something from the 1930s.
他们满脑子种族成见,似乎都是些20世纪30年代的老思想。
4. 我的意思是(用于纠正之前所说的话)
You say I mean when correcting something that you have just said.
e.g. It was law or classics—I mean English or classics.
是法律或者古典文学——我的意思是英语或古典文学。
5. 理解…的滋味;了解…的影响
If you know what it means to do something, you know everything that is involved in a particular activity or experience, especially the effect that it has on you.
e.g. I know what it means to lose a child under such tragic circumstances.