literally

释义

adv.逐字地; 照字面地; 确实地，真正地; [口语]差不多，简直（用于加强语意）

实用场景例句

The economy must be reined in immediately, or it will literally consume us whole...

必须立即控制经济，否则它真的会把我们整个吞噬掉...

金山词霸

The performance was literally unforgettable.

这场表演简直令人难忘。

金山词霸

Mounting a full-scale opera demands the synchronized work of literally hundreds of dedicated professionals, an astonishing collective endeavor.

上演一场完整规模的歌剧需要字面上数百名专业人士的协同努力，这是一项惊人的集体壮举。

金山词霸

Choking for air, I hauled my exhausted body toward the car, literally inch by inch.

我几乎窒息，拖着疲惫的身躯一寸寸挪向那辆车，毫不夸张。

金山词霸

Taken literally, the word 'volk' translates to 'folk'...

从字面上看，'volk'这个词翻译为'folk'（民众）...

金山词霸

Originally, the term "stanza" was used to literally denote a physical room.

最初，“stanza”（诗节）一词的字面意思是指一个实际的房间。

金山词霸

Being told to "step on it" (implying urgency) or to "throw on your coat" (suggesting swift action), some individuals might take these expressions literally, which could result in disastrous consequences.

如果有人听到"step on it"（暗示紧急）或"throw on your coat"（建议迅速行动），可能会对这些表达按字面理解，从而招致灾难性后果。

金山词霸

literally: 字面上地

The term ‘metaphor’ literally means ‘carrying over’.

金山词霸

She said she was "starving," but she didn't mean it literally.

她说她“饿死了”，但她并不是字面意思。

金山词霸

Literally thousands of stars twinkle in the night sky.

夜空中真的有成千上万的星星在闪烁。

金山词霸

He translated the passage literally.

他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

期刊摘选

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.

名作英译部分

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.

期刊摘选

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.

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The city was literally destroyed.

城市差不多全毁了.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).

我的舌头被牙齿咬伤了.

期刊摘选

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.

《用法词典》

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”.

期刊摘选

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.

期刊摘选

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.

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The children were literally starving.

孩子们的确是在挨饿.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

真题例句

"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."

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

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

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its aims.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

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.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

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

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

英英释义

Adverb

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"