literally

The word ‘planet ’ literally means ‘wandering body ’.

planet一詞字面上的意思是wandering body。

牛津詞典

When I told you to ‘get lost ’ I didn't expect to be taken literally .

我叫你“滾開”，并沒讓你按字面意思來理解呀。

牛津詞典

There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.

真的有好幾百份獎品可以領(lǐng)呀。

牛津詞典

I literally jumped out of my skin.

我簡直給嚇了一大跳。

牛津詞典

We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up...

我們必須設(shè)法控制經(jīng)濟(jì)，不然它非把我們吞噬了不可。

The views are literally breath-taking.

景色美得簡直讓人窒息。

Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people...

上演一臺歌劇是一項浩大的工程，說要涉及數(shù)以百計的人真是一點(diǎn)都不夸張。

I literally crawled to the car.

我真的是爬到車那邊去的。

The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'...

volk這個單詞直譯過來為folk（人們）。

A stanza is, literally, a room.

stanza（詩節(jié)）的原意為“房間”。

If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.

如果你告訴一個人step on it（“加速；加快”，字面意義“踩在上面”）或者throw on your coat（“趕快穿上外套”，字面意義“扔在你的外套上”），他們可能會按字面理解你的話，那就會引起災(zāi)難性的后果。

He translated the passage literally.

他逐字逐句地翻譯這段文字.

《簡明英漢詞典》

Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.

阿尼根本無視我的存在, 因?yàn)樗峭詰僬?

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Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.

技術(shù)正在改變這一切, 它正在劈波斬浪為今日的水下探索者開路.

名作英譯部分

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

想像力正是人類草擬所有計劃乃至成形的工作場所.

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His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.

他在上層社會的影響使他違規(guī)而未被懲罰.

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The city was literally destroyed.

城市差不多全毀了.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).

我的舌頭被牙齒咬傷了.

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Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.

關(guān)于它的實(shí)質(zhì)的種種推測,確實(shí)已進(jìn)行了數(shù)千年之久.

《用法詞典》

These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.

這種克氏鰲蝦喜歡生活在污濁的水溝里,它們實(shí)在是污水中的“垃圾處理員”.

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And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.

這個國家的大眾的確對此毫不在乎.

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Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.

成語通常不能用另一種語言逐字翻譯.

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The children were literally starving.

孩子們的確是在挨餓.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

She literally ran along the path toward the gate.

她真的沿著小路向門奔跑過去.

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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

對一個詞的理解是按字面意思還是隱喻的意思要視乎上下文和習(xí)慣.

《簡明英漢詞典》

She was literally blue with cold.

她真的冷得全身青紫.

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