literally
英语
[编辑]其他形式
[编辑]- lit. (缩写)
- litterally (弃用)
词源
[编辑]源自中古英語 litteraly，等价于literal + -ly。
发音
[编辑]副词
[编辑]literally (比較級 more literally，最高級 most literally)
- 字面意义上的，没有比喻的
- 近義詞：actually、really、unfiguratively、unmetaphorically；亦參見Thesaurus:actually
- 反義詞：figuratively、idiomatically、metaphorically、virtually
- 下位詞：overliterally
- 同類詞：etymonically
- When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
- 我看到新闻说明天学校因为暴风雪停课时，我高兴得真的跳了起来，然后头撞到了吊扇。
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- 2012年5月24日，Nathan Rabin，“Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- […] Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
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- 2021年1月7日，Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane，“Inside the Capitol, the Sound of the Mob Came First”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- As lawmakers and staff rushed out, aides snatched the boxes containing the Electoral College certificates, making sure that the vandals could not literally steal the results of the election.
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- (程度，比喻義，官方不推荐，自反义) 简直，几乎，可以说 （用于加强比喻义的程度，而非否定比喻义）
- 近義詞：virtually
- He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
- 他惊讶得快跳了六米高。
- My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
- 我女儿的宠物兔子生宝宝了，现在我们家可以说到处都是兔子。
- On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
- 9/11事件时大家时时刻刻都盯着电视。
- 1827，Sir Walter Scott，“Appendix to Introduction”, in Chronicles of the Canongate[3]，存檔自the original on 15 June 2021:
- The house was literally electrified; and it was only from witnessing the effects of her genius that he could guess to what a pitch theatrical excellence could be carried.
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- 1993，Wayne W. Dyer，Real Magic，頁 193:
- You literally become the ball in a tennis match, you become the report that you are working on […]
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- 2017年4月22日，New Straits Times，Malaysia，頁 20:
- [O]ne can assume that the millions or billions of ringgit spent on the war against drugs have gone down the drain, literally.
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- (口語) 真的 （增强非比喻义词的语气）
- I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
- 我不懂，我真的就只是在猜。
- I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
- 她来的时候我真的就在吃早餐。
- She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
- 她就说了句，“哈？”然后我也回了句，“对。”
- Literally who is this?
- 这到底是谁啊？
- 2015，“On the Run”, in Steven Universe:
- Pearl: Steven, we are not like the No Home Boys. We are literally standing in your home right now.
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- (口語) 仅仅，不过 （用作广义弱化修饰词）
- 近義詞：merely；亦參見Thesaurus:merely
- It's not even hard to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
- 这根本就不难做——你就把它放进微波炉热了五分钟就做好了。
- It won't take me long to get back, cause the store's literally two blocks away.
- 我回来用不了多久的，因为那个商店就隔了两个街区。
用法说明
[编辑]- Literally是figuratively的反义词，因此很多官方机构反对将literally用作比喻用法的语气加强词，比如“you literally become the ball”，不带任何比喻义的话，就是指“你变成了球”，而这是不可能的，但是实际上，这是说话人在使用literally作为语气加强词，来强调比喻义的程度。这种用法在非正式口语中很常见（“she was literally in floods of tears”）。