Literally
['lɪt(ə)rəlɪ] or ['lɪtərəli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; 'our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War'.
(adv.) in a literal sense; 'literally translated'; 'he said so literally'.
乔安妮手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
(adv.) With close adherence to words; word by word.
整理:普雷斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- You appear to feel it so,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Sharp talons and cruel fangs had torn leg, arm, and breast literally to ribbons. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The second sentence literally petrified her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The answer came back, literally in one sentence. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- While the earth is literally bathed in nitrogen, this element is found to only a very slight degree in the soil. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I don't mean, literally, to take the next train. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Here is a case where words cannot be taken literally. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To get all the advantage of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences, and not be a spoon who takes things literally. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Still more effective is the fact that unless an individual acts in the way current in his group, he is literally out of it. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As to your guess, if I answered it literally, I should answer no. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was literally prayer offered with strong crying and tears. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The unimaginative Anglaise proved better than the Parisienne's fears: she sat literally unprovided, as bare of bloom or leaf as the winter tree. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I don't mean literally a child, pursued Mr. Jarndyce; not a child in years. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Entangled with the love of gaiety, organized as commerce, it is literally impossible to follow the myriad expressions it assumes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was only the second porter, and his English was still literally translated. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- With these and modern forms of artesian wells the deserts have literally been made to blossom as the rose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She is tenderhearted on the subject of her pupil; yet she reproaches you sometimes for obeying your uncle's injunctions too literally. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I formed them, and they are literally correct. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That was literally how I put it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mr. Bounderby, bending himself at the knees, literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It is literally eccentric: it has been centered mechanically instead of vitally. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Literally and exactly what I heard, he answered-- except that the repetitions are not transferred here from my short-hand notes. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They have literally nothing whatever to talk about. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At the date I have mentioned, the doctors pronounced the sentence on poor Lady Verinder, which was literally a sentence of death. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is like you to understand my question so literally and answer it so simply. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Situations do not literally repeat themselves. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Do you mean literally or figuratively? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
整理:普雷斯利