Uh,sorry,I meant to meet you at the gate.很抱歉,我本打算在登機門叫住您的
mean to:打算
Oh, I know what I meant to tell you.
噢,我記起要告訴你的事了。
I meant to see you, but I was too busy yesterday.
昨天我本打算去看你,但我太忙了而沒去。
But there seems to have been a mix-up involving the,uh... cargo you checked in sydney.但是您在悉尼托運的... 貨物好像出了點問題
seem to:似乎 ...
All my troubles seem to come together.
我的各種問題似乎同時出現了
The days seem to flash by.
光陰似箭。
involve:包含,牽涉, 使卷入, 使陷入
Don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense.
勿做不必要的花費。
Don't involve me in solving your problems!
你解決你的問題,不要把我拉進去!
contain, include involve這些動詞均含有“包括,包含”之意。
contain普通用詞,所涉及的物體常常是其組成部分或內容。強調包容關系。既可指具體有形的東西,也可指
抽象無形的東西。
include普通用詞,指一整體包含著各獨立的部分,也指某東西包含另一東西的某一部分。