literally意思

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"
   

1.简直（一些用词谨慎者认为此用法不正确）
You can useliterally to emphasize a statement. Some careful speakers of English think that this use is incorrect.

literally是什么意思

e.g. We've got to get the economy under control or it willliterally 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。
e.g. The views areliterally breath-taking.
景色美得简直让人窒息。

2.确实地；真正地；不加夸张地
You useliterally to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising.

e.g. Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involvingliterally 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。
e.g. Iliterally crawled to the car.
我真的是爬到车那边去的。

3.照字面地；直（译）地
If a word or expression is translatedliterally, its most simple or basic meaning is translated.

e.g. The word 'volk' translatesliterally as 'folk'...
volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。
e.g. A stanza is,literally, a room.
stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。

4.照字面理解
If youtake somethingliterally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.

e.g. If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take youliterally, 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。

1. He translated the passage literally.
   他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
2. I took what he said literally, but afterwards it became clear that he really meant something else.
   我原先相信他表面上所说的话,但后来才弄清楚,他实际上另有所指。
3. The Olympic Games were watched by literally billions of people around the world.
   全世界确实有几十亿人观看了那次奥林匹克运动会。
4. She was literally blue with cold.
   她真的冷得全身青紫。
5. He was literally blazing with anger.
   他简直怒火冲天。

• Others repeat only what they hear from others as literally as their parts or zeal will permit.

  出自：Steele

• A tone expressing that these words signified..about one hundred times the amount of meaning they conveyed literally.

  出自：T. Hardy

• He had only two pounds in his pocketsnot literally in his pocket because..they had been taken away from him.

  出自：G. Greene

• Though Tennyson's Enoch Arden was not literally inspired by her, yet he was staying with some friends of her great uncle's when it was published.

  出自：J. B. Morton

• Literally hundreds of men were always pestering her to marry them.

  出自：K. Amis

• He literally had to move heaven and earth to arrive at this systematic understanding.

  出自：R. M. Pirsig