基本释义
- 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）
实用例句
The word ‘planet ’ literally means ‘wandering body ’.
planet一词字面上的意思是wandering body。
牛津词典
When I told you to ‘get lost ’ I didn't expect to be taken literally .
我叫你“滚开”，并没让你按字面意思来理解呀。
牛津词典
There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.
真的有好几百份奖品可以领呀。
牛津词典
I literally jumped out of my skin.
我简直给吓了一大跳。
牛津词典
We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally 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。
The views are literally breath-taking.
景色美得简直让人窒息。
Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally 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。
I literally crawled to the car.
我真的是爬到车那边去的。
The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'...
volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。
A stanza is, literally, a room.
stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。
If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, 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。
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.
期刊摘选
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.
期刊摘选
The children were literally starving.
孩子们的确是在挨饿.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
She literally ran along the path toward the gate.
她真的沿着小路向门奔跑过去.
期刊摘选
It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯.
《简明英汉词典》
She was literally blue with cold.
她真的冷得全身青紫.
《简明英汉词典》
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 BThe 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 AYour 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 CThe 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 BThere 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 CYour 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 BOlduvai 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
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"