Literally

(adv.) (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; 'our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War'.

(adv.) in a literal sense; 'literally translated'; 'he said so literally'.

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• You appear to feel it so,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Sharp talons and cruel fangs had torn leg, arm, and breast literally to ribbons. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The second sentence literally petrified her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The answer came back, literally in one sentence. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• While the earth is literally bathed in nitrogen, this element is found to only a very slight degree in the soil. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I don't mean, literally, to take the next train. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Here is a case where words cannot be taken literally. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To get all the advantage of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences, and not be a spoon who takes things literally. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Still more effective is the fact that unless an individual acts in the way current in his group, he is literally out of it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As to your guess, if I answered it literally, I should answer no. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was literally prayer offered with strong crying and tears. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The unimaginative Anglaise proved better than the Parisienne's fears: she sat literally unprovided, as bare of bloom or leaf as the winter tree. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I don't mean literally a child, pursued Mr. Jarndyce; not a child in years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Entangled with the love of gaiety, organized as commerce, it is literally impossible to follow the myriad expressions it assumes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He was only the second porter, and his English was still literally translated. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• With these and modern forms of artesian wells the deserts have literally been made to blossom as the rose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• She is tenderhearted on the subject of her pupil; yet she reproaches you sometimes for obeying your uncle's injunctions too literally. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I formed them, and they are literally correct. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That was literally how I put it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mr. Bounderby, bending himself at the knees, literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It is literally eccentric: it has been centered mechanically instead of vitally. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Literally and exactly what I heard, he answered-- except that the repetitions are not transferred here from my short-hand notes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They have literally nothing whatever to talk about. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At the date I have mentioned, the doctors pronounced the sentence on poor Lady Verinder, which was literally a sentence of death. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It is like you to understand my question so literally and answer it so simply. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Situations do not literally repeat themselves. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Do you mean literally or figuratively? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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