literally

英 ['lɪt(ə)rəlɪ] 美['lɪtərəli]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词really actually exactly

反义词

adv. 照字面地；逐字地；不夸张地；正确地；简直

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英文词源

literally (adv.): 1530s, "in a literal sense," from literal + -ly (2). Erroneously used in reference to metaphors, hyperbole, etc., even by writers like Dryden and Pope, to indicate "what follows must be taken in the strongest admissible sense" (1680s), which is opposite to the word's real meaning and a long step down the path to the modern misuse of it.
We have come to such a pass with this emphasizer that where the truth would require us to insert with a strong expression 'not literally, of course, but in a manner of speaking', we do not hesitate to insert the very word we ought to be at pains to repudiate; ... such false coin makes honest traffic in words impossible. [Fowler, 1924]

双语例句

1. Until next payday, I was literally without any money.: 到下个发薪日前，我真的没有一点儿钱了。

2. To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating.: 眼见自己的身体日渐衰弱真是让人心烦。

3. Windsor Castle is quite literally an antique treasure trove.: 温莎城堡确实是名副其实的古物宝藏。

4. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.: 如果把我们能做到的都做了，最终连我们自己都会被吓到。

5. The event literally stopped the traffic.: 这一事件几乎让交通陷于停顿。

英英释意

1. in a literal sense;: "literally translated"; "he said so literally"

2. (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration;: "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war"

考试真题

"I think we're unique as a federal agency," USPS official Mike Swigart told me, "because we're in literally every community in this country."

The word "culture" comes the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".

Your job is literally killing you, as The Washington Post put it.

It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its aims.

It literally is like something in a dream to remember what it's like to actually be able to go out and put in a day's work and receive a day's pay.

The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry, Farrant says.

There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of finding a new job.

Your job is "literally killing you," as The Washington Post put it.

Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally fell into its deep valley in 1911.

实用场景例句

The word ‘planet ’ literally means ‘wandering body ’.: planet一词字面上的意思是wandering body。

When I told you to ‘get lost ’ I didn't expect to be taken literally .: 我叫你“滚开”，并没让你按字面意思来理解呀。

There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.: 真的有好几百份奖品可以领呀。

I literally jumped out of my skin.: 我简直给吓了一大跳。

We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up...: 我们必须设法控制经济，不然它非把我们吞噬了不可。

The views are literally breath-taking.: 景色美得简直让人窒息。

Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people...: 上演一台歌剧是一项浩大的工程，说要涉及数以百计的人真是一点都不夸张。

I literally crawled to the car.: 我真的是爬到车那边去的。

The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'...: volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。

A stanza is, literally, a room.: stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。

If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.: 如果你告诉一个人step on it（“加速；加快”，字面意义“踩在上面”）或者throw on your coat（“赶快穿上外套”，字面意义“扔在你的外套上”），他们可能会按字面理解你的话，那就会引起灾难性的后果。

He translated the passage literally.: 他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字.

Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.: 阿尼根本无视我的存在, 因为他是同性恋者.

Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.: 技术正在改变这一切, 它正在劈波斩浪为今日的水下探索者开路.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.: 想像力正是人类草拟所有计划乃至成形的工作场所.

His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.: 他在上层社会的影响使他违规而未被惩罚.

The city was literally destroyed.: 城市差不多全毁了.

I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).: 我的舌头被牙齿咬伤了.

Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.: 关于它的实质的种种推测,确实已进行了数千年之久.

These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.: 这种克氏鳌虾喜欢生活在污浊的水沟里,它们实在是污水中的“垃圾处理员”.

And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.: 这个国家的大众的确对此毫不在乎.

Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.: 成语通常不能用另一种语言逐字翻译.

The children were literally starving.: 孩子们的确是在挨饿.

She literally ran along the path toward the gate.: 她真的沿着小路向门奔跑过去.

It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.: 对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯.

She was literally blue with cold.: 她真的冷得全身青紫.

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