This is exactly how slam is meant to be.

这正是诗喃的本意。

" Faux pas" is basically an error.

" 失礼" 本意是一。

He posted the photo in hopes of being excused from an upcoming exam.

其本意是想逃避即将面临的考试。

We have kept what they were here for, is to live in.

相反我们保持了让人居住的本意。

A bear hug is intended to be playful, lighthearted, and fun.

熊抱的本意是好玩、轻松和有趣的。

That is not true. It was never my intention.

那不是真的。那根本不是我的本意。

Everyone is tired and saying things they don't mean.

大家都累了，说的都不是自己的本意。

However, sometimes people don't agree on what the laws mean.

然而，有时人们会在法律的本意上出现分歧。

And the funny thing is, NOAA was not looking for new sea creatures.

有趣的是，NOAA本意其实并非寻找新的海洋生物。

Y... you don't mean that. You're just upset.

这... 这不是的本意 在气头上。

Well, that was not my intention, but I'm glad to hear it.

那不是我的本意，这么说我很高兴。

Do your best, and trust that things will work out the way they're meant to.

原则 5，尽所能，相信事情会按其本意发展。

This is embarrassing, but we all said things we didn't mean back there, right?

这很尴尬，我们都会说出一些不是本意的，对吧？

Believe me that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to deliver a letter.

相信我 那并不是我本意 我只是想来送这封信而已。

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.

该方案的本意并非是要忽视社会科学，而是完全相反。

Oh, dear, I've upset you, and that wasn't my intention.

哦，亲爱的，我让不高兴了，我本意不是这样的。

SOMETHING is used when the earlier noun is not exactly what the speaker meant.

SOMETHING 是在先前的名词与说者本意不完全一致时使用的。

Their counterintuitive finding is in the journal PLoS ONE.

他们这项违背本意的研究已在《公共科学图书馆期刊》上发表。

At university. Though I must say I'm a bit rusty now!

大学。是我不得不说我现在有些生疏（本意“生锈的”）了！

Why don't you look into it, have a bit of a ferret around?

何不调查一下，四处打探（ferret 本意雪貂，引申为打探）。