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.
一個無論從字面還是比喻意義上來說都將改變你的路線的事件
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.
他的職業生涯延續了大約50年,作品既有抽象畫也有寫實畫。
1. in a figurative sense;
Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.
以德國作為地理以及比喻意義上的中心的歐洲仍處於巨大變革的初期。
Figuratively, he could not kiss the hand that smote him.
打個比方說, 他是不能認敵為友.
Employees will be, figuratively speaking, in the driver's seat.
打個比方,僱員將會坐在駕駛座上, 即取得主動權.
At times , both hands are figuratively tied behind my back.
我時常會覺得雙手被束縛在背後.
English speakers like to use the word neck figuratively.
英國人喜歡用“頸”字作比喻.