literally
adv. 逐字地; 照字面地; 確實地,真正地; [口語]差不多,簡直(用於加強語意)
You can use literally to emphasize a statement. Some careful speakers of English think that this use is incorrect.
We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up...
我們必須設法控制經濟,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。
You use literally to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising.
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,說要涉及數以百計的人真是一點都不誇張。
I literally crawled to the car.
我真的是爬到車那邊去的。
If a word or expression is translated literally, its most simple or basic meaning is translated.
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)的原意為“房間”。
If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
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,那就會引起災難性的後果。
1. in a literal sense;
2. (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration;
He translated the passage literally.
他逐字逐句地翻譯這段文字.
Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.
阿尼根本無視我的存在, 因為他是同性戀者.
Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.
技術正在改變這一切, 它正在劈波斬浪為今日的水下探索者開路.
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.
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而未被懲罰.