literally
literally
adverb
adverb
- in a literal manner or sense; exactly
按照字面地，逐字地，确切地
the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the roundabout.
司机以为真的让他直接冲过环形路。
Tiramisu, literally translated ‘pull-me-up’.
Tiramisu的字面意义就是“拉我上去”。
■(informal)used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling
(非正式)［表示所指物并非真实，只是为了强调或表达感情］
I have received literally thousands of letters.
我收到了好几千封信。
- In its standard use literally means ‘in a literal sense, as opposed to a non-literal or exaggerated sense’, as for example in I told him I never wanted to see him again, but I didn't expect him to take it literallyIn recent years an extended use of literally (and also literal) has become very common, where literally (or literal) is used deliberately in non-literal contexts, for added effect, as in they bought the car and literally ran it into the groundThis use can lead to unintentional humorous effectswe were literally killing ourselves laughingand is not acceptable in standard English, though it accounts for more than 20 per cent of use in the British National Corpus
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