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figuratively
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adv.

  • 柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典

  • 英英释义

1. ADJ 比喻的;借喻的 If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. 

  • ...an event that will change your route — in both the literal and figurative sense.

    一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件

figuratively

  • Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

    以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。

2. ADJ (艺术风格)具象的，写实的 Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way. 

  • His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.

    他的职业生涯延续了大约50年，作品既有抽象画也有写实画。

Adverb

1. in a figurative sense;

  • "figuratively speaking,..."