The children were literally starving.

孩子们的确是在挨饿。

属类：综合句库--

This has long been taken no_ only literally , but also in a figurative sense, for the Orient has been considered as the source of wisdom and illumination

很久以来人们认为这种说法不但是真实的而且还有比喻的含义,因为东方一直被认为是智慧和启蒙的发源地。

属类：综合句库--

The Royal Court just literally walked away from Angkor completely.

皇室完全地离开了吴哥。

属类：社会文化-新闻文摘-吴哥窟

Halfway home the body of the car literally fell to pieces

回家的中途,车身简直要散架了。

属类：综合句库--

be literally blue with cold

简直冻得发紫.

属类：英汉句库--

She had been literally rejuvenated, resuscitated, brought back from the lip of the grave

她确确实实返老还童了,恢复了精力,被从坟墓的进口处拉了回来。

属类：综合句库--

Her idea of being a good wife and mother was to heap the table with food. But as it was mostly starch and fat, she was literally killing her family with kindness

她想作为一个贤妻良母,就该在桌上摆满丰盛的饭菜,但由于饭菜大部分是淀粉和脂肪,她的这番好意实际上却使家人受了害。

属类：综合句库--

While literally there was a difference between Article 5 of China's Patent Law and the TRIPS Agreement, in practice, during the review of patent applications, the interpretation of ""violating laws of China"" had been restricted to "

尽管从字面意义上讲,中国《专利法》第 5 条与《 TRIPS 协定》存在差别,但是在实践中,在审查专利申请时,对"违反国家法律"的解释被限定为,

属类：法学专业-中国法律-中国加入工作组报告书

Scientists have found medical evidence of something every football fan already knows penalty shoot-outs are literally heart-stoppers

科学家们为每个球迷都知道的事情找到了医学证据--点球大战的确会令你心跳骤停。

属类：综合句库--

The peasant labourers really [actually; literally ] hewed a tunnel through that rocky mountain

民工们硬是打通了这座大山,修成了隧道。

属类：综合句库--

The city was literally destroyed.

那个城市真的被毁灭了。

属类：综合句库--

The city was literally destroyed.

那个城市真个被毁灭了。

属类：综合句库--

At this crucial moment, all her children had a serious case of measles, and Alexandra sat, literally in the dark, in a shuttered sickroom, firing off responses to the growing tumult mud died with de tails of the children's symptoms

恰恰在这关键时刻,他们所有的孩子都得了严重的麻疹。亚利桑得拉坐在门窗紧闭的病房里,简直是在黑暗中对不断增长的动乱及孩子症状的详情迅速作出反应。

属类：综合句库--

Misinterpret Words through Taking Then Literally

浅谈英汉翻译中的望文生义

属类：行业术语-中文论文标题-

How could I sleep with the world literally crashing down around my ears? My mewse said it was time to get to work.

全世界简直就在耳边崩溃,我怎么能睡得着呢?我的“喵斯”说该是干活的时候了。

属类：文学表达-文学-散文

thermonuclear reactions are, quite literally , nuclear burning

热核反应,通俗地说,就是原子核燃烧。

属类：综合句库--

If you look down on a city, literally from a great distance, from an airplane at night, you will be struck by the incredible brightness of a city

如果你真正从一个很远的距离,如夜晚航行的飞机上,俯视一座城市,你会被眼前难以置信的明亮所打动

属类：文学表达-文学-散文

It was literally true that if a lover of fine clothes secured a new suit, it was sure to have its first airing on Broadway.

如果说一个讲究穿着的人买了一套新装,第一次穿出来一定是在百老汇大街上,这可是一点不假。

属类：文学表达-英语名著-

There are people in the world who literally do not know how to boil water

世界上确实有不知道该怎么烧水的人

属类：综合句库--

This was far from being literally true, but it was sufficiently near the fact to give birth to the compliment

事实并非完全如此,不过也有几分符合真理,因而他们才说出这等溢美之辞。

属类：综合句库--

undaunted by their first effort that literally fell apart, they persevered for years until the first working machine flew for a mere 300 feet, less than the wingspan of a 747

他们第一次的努力不加夸张地说是摔得粉碎,但他们毫不气馁,继续坚持了好几年,直到制造出第一架能够仅仅飞行300英尺的机器,这个距离还不到波音747客机的机翼长度。

属类：综合句库--

He is a man of brick: as if he had been born as a baby literally of clay and decades of exposure have baked him to the color and hardness of brick.

他是条硬汉子:好像生来就是泥质的,几十年的风风雨雨把他烧得像砖一样又黑又硬。

属类：综合句库-英汉翻译-

I literally came out from behind the desk and started living the life

他说:“我的的确确是从桌子后面走出来而开始生活的。

属类：综合句库--

When he said he never wanted to see you again I' m sure he didn' t mean it literally

他说他再也不想见你了,我肯定他言不由衷

属类：综合句库--

He grabbed my hand and said, "You know something, Mister? I was so in love with that girl that when that letter came, my life literally ended. I never married. I guess I've always loved her."

他抓着我的手继续说:“你知道吗,先生?我是那么地爱着那个女孩,以至于收到那封信时,我的生命就结束了,我一直未娶,因为我始终爱着她。”

属类：文学表达-文学-散文

here they are literally , as they were written down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty years ago:--

听到这些话的人,至今快四十年了,现在还觉得余音在耳呢。

属类：综合句库--

The skirted feature is another TOTO plus, hiding the trapway and piping at the base and keeping the look clean both figuratively and literally .

筒裙状是TOTO的另一个特色,它隐蔽了坐便器底座的存水湾和排污道,使得坐便器的日常清洁维护更加容易,外观也显得更加整洁。

属类：产品说明书-洁具说明-

Catching the Meaning of Words Literally from the Context-The Taboo of Choosing the Meaning of Words in French-Chinese Translation

望文生义所致法文误解误译例析

属类：行业术语-中文论文标题-

I took what he said literally .

我从字面上领会了他说话的意思.

属类：英汉句库--

I mean literally that she pushes the search for perfection too far that her merits are in themselves overstrained.

我的确切意思是,她对完美的要求提得太高,这么一来,她就过分渲染了她自己的优点。

属类：综合句库-典型例句-