a)SHOULD/OUGHT TOif you are meant to do something, you should do it, especially because someone has told you to or because you are responsible for it 〔尤因某人的吩咐或根据职责〕应该[必须]做某事
Come on, Ellen, you’re meant to be helping me.
好了,埃伦,你是应该帮助我的。
I thought the police were meant to protect people.
The diagram is meant to show the different stages of the process.
这个图表意在显示整个过程的各个不同阶段。
Examples from the Corpus
be meant to do something• Designed by Robert Von Hagge, it was meant to be hard.• This is the way moviecomedieswere meant to be: one laughrolling in just as the last one rolls out.• They are giftsfit for a king, and so they are meant to be.• Christmas time is meant to bring people together.• By the time it was finished, the workings had gone lower than the levels it was meant todrain.• The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casinostaff from the management.• The suitis meant to head off a legalattack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works.• Like it was meant to look an accident.• The new programis meant to put young people in the retail and hospitalityindustries on a fast-track to management careers.• Jenny is convinced she was meant to stay with Zev.