adv.(副词)

1. 逐字地;照字面地 so as to give a single word in place of each original word;according to the words and not the intention
2. 确实地,真正地 in a literal sense;really

Adverb:

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。

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1. 简直：在中国的环境中,国家简直(literally)是在掠夺土地. 在这一部分的开头,我引用了万里的话,万里在二十世纪八十年代是主管农业的副总理,也是一个自由派改革者,他在贫困的安徽省推行了农村改革.

2. 简直,照字面地：predecessor前辈,前任,前身 |literally 简直,照字面地 | temper调和,使缓和;脾气

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

He translated this article literally.

他一字一句地翻译这篇文章。

Don't read the report literally now, just skim through it.

现在，不要逐字读报告，大致地看一下就可以了。

Idioms usually cannot be translated literally in another language.

成语通常不能照字面译成另一种语言。

He literally flew into the room.

他简直是飞也似地跑进了房间。

I literally jumped out of my skin.

我简直给吓了一大跳。

The word 'u2018planet 'u2019 literally means 'u2018wandering body 'u2019.

planet一词字面上的意思是wandering body。

When I told you to 'u2018get lost 'u2019 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。

There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.

真的有好几百份奖品可以领呀。

I literally jumped out of my skin.

我简直给吓了一大跳。

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The city was literally destroyed.

城市差不多全毁了.

I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).

我的舌头被牙齿咬伤了.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

The children were literally starving.

孩子们的确是在挨饿.

She literally ran along the path toward the gate.

她真的沿着小路向门奔跑过去.

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.

She was literally blue with cold.

她真的冷得全身青紫.