literally
adv. 逐字地, 按照字面上地, 不夸张地
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教材释义与例句
照字面地；逐字地；不夸张地；正确地；简直
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1.
Word for word, exactly as stated.
Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.
There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.
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2.
Word for word, exactly as stated.
With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.
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3.
Word for word, exactly as stated.
Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
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4.
As an intensifier.
Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
按照字面
非正式I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
Literally who is this?
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5.
As an intensifier.
Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.
He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
People can't even express their opinions freely in this country any more. Literally 1984!
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Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
非正式It's not even hard to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.
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From Middle English litteraly. See literal and letter. By surface analysis, literal + -ly.
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