figuratively
adv. 形象地,比喻地
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
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。
1. in a figurative sense;
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。
Figuratively, he could not kiss the hand that smote him.
打个比方说, 他是不能认敌为友.
Employees will be, figuratively speaking, in the driver's seat.
打个比方,雇员将会坐在驾驶座上, 即取得主动权.
At times , both hands are figuratively tied behind my back.
我时常会觉得双手被束缚在背后.
English speakers like to use the word neck figuratively.
英国人喜欢用“颈”字作比喻.