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ADV
简直（一些用词谨慎者认为此用法不正确） You can use literally to emphasize a statement. Some careful speakers of English think that this use is incorrect.
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We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up...
我们必须设法控制经济，不然它非把我们吞噬了不可。
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The views are literally breath-taking.
景色美得简直让人窒息。
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ADV
确实地；真正地；不加夸张地 You use literally to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising.
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Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people...
上演一台歌剧是一项浩大的工程，说要涉及数以百计的人真是一点都不夸张。
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I literally crawled to the car.
我真的是爬到车那边去的。
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ADV
照字面地；直（译）地 If a word or expression is translated literally, its most simple or basic meaning is translated.
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The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'...
volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。
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A stanza is, literally, a room.
stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。
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PHRASE
照字面理解 If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
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If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
如果你告诉一个人step on it（“加速；加快”，字面意义“踩在上面”）或者throw on your coat（“赶快穿上外套”，字面意义“扔在你的外套上”），他们可能会按字面理解你的话，那就会引起灾难性的后果。
- Adverb
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1. in a literal sense;
- "literally translated"
- "he said so literally"
- antonym： figuratively
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2. (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration;
- "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war"
- synonym： virtually
- 1. He translated the passage literally.
- 他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
- 对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. She was literally blue with cold.
- 她真的冷得全身青紫。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.
- 关于它的实质的种种推测，确实已进行了数千年之久。
来自《用法词典》
- 5. The children were literally starving.
- 孩子们的确是在挨饿。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 6. The city was literally destroyed.
- 城市差不多全毁了。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 7. The sentence cannot be literally rendered.
- 这个句子不能直译。
来自《简明英汉词典》
