“Hope for the best and prepare for the worst” is a proverb, life is beautiful and full of frustrations as well.
A. to mean
B. meaning
C. means
D. meant
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A. to mean
(答案→)B. meaning
C. means
D. meant
解析：句意：抱最好的希望，做最坏的打算是一句谚语，意味着生活是美好的，也充满令人沮丧的事情，这里需要定语，因为proverb和mean是主动关系，用现在分词做定语，meaning= which means，所以选B。