词汇 | literally |
释义 | literally adverb uk /ˈlɪt.ər.əl.i/ us /ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.əl.i/ B2 using the real or original meaning of a word or phrase: 确实地;名副其实地 They were responsible for literally millions of deaths.他们的确对数百万人的死负有责任。 We live literally just round the corner from her.我们住的地方离她那里真的只需要拐一个弯。 If you translate literally, you translate each word in a text separately, without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence: 逐字(翻译)地 Translations that are done too literally often don't flow well or don't sound natural.太拘泥于字面意思的翻译往往会不太流畅或不太自然。 informal used to emphasize what you are saying: (用于强调所说的话) He missed that kick literally by miles.他那一脚踢丢得确实相差好几英里远。 I was literally bowled over by the news.我听到这个消息真的惊呆了。 informal simply or just: 只是,仅仅,就 Then you literally cut the sausage down the middle.那么你就从香肠的中间切开吧。 He literally flew across the room. I literally had a heart attack when I heard the news. They were literally over the moon at the news. She was literally tearing her hair out with grief. He was literally millions of miles ahead of the other runners. Accurate and exact accuracy accurate accurately aright authoritative dime for all the worldidiom Goldilocks got it in one!idiom in so many wordsidiom infallible nose precisely slap smack spot on strict strictly strictly speakingidiom superaccurate You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Using other languages Linguistics: very & extreme General literally | American Dictionaryliterally adverb us/ˈlɪt̬·ər·ə·li/ [ not gradable ] used for emphasizing how large or great an amount is: There were literally hundreds of pages to read in the contract. [ not gradable ] Literally is also used to emphasize a statement and suggest that it is surprising: I literally (= really) had no idea you and Sophie were coming. Examples of literallyliterally Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns. For even if features of the world were literally represented in brains/ minds, these representations would not explain cognition. The number of content elements are counted from here on; they do not have to occur literally. It is very much in the nature of an epitaph, indeed almost literally so, as the first two lines of the poem make clear. In this representation, the internal order of the self we saw above is disrupted as the self literally gravitates through attraction toward another. In concert, these interactions may cause the foot of heavily infected cockles to be literally immobilized. Stores, associations and family and village networks evolved to ensure the safe arrival of remittances and letters, literally from the destinations to the village. The user's request may not express literally what the user wants to know. In previous formulations of projection strictness analysis, the two forms of demand were confused (literally) by the lifting trick. It does this both figuratively (by rekindling interest in it) and literally, by organising concerts, releasing records, distributing those releases and other merchandise. Or perhaps there is a perfectly acceptable, philosophically respectable sense in which, quite literally, states have mental states. The performer's hand is fully inside the glove and literally internal to it. Personnel were being worked literally round the clock. On one hand, actual levels of trust are often so great that we cannot literally hold physicians to superhuman expectations. And the derived verb ch'oolanink - literally 'to heart someone' - refers to caring for, maintaining, or feeding another living entity. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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