literal 的 2 个定义
- in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- following the words of the original very closely and exactly: a literal translation of Goethe.
- true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual: a literal description of conditions.
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- a typographical error, especially involving a single letter.
literal 近义词
word for word; exact, real
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- Stigma, in other words, consists of the act of branding, which, in the case of enslavement, could be literal.
- The literal meaning of “chakra” is “wheel,” and Chandrasekar’s striking chakra paintings, each keyed to a single color, revolve around a central axis.
- So when you’re a 22-year-old American and all of a sudden you have an opportunity to see dead bodies in the literal flesh, every day, that’s a wonderful opportunity.
- Green shoots for the economy can go hand in hand with literal green shoots.
- From the land to the air to the sea, the terrain—both literal and psychological—these folks navigate can be tough.
- I never hear a Democrat talk about these goods, which are, in the literal sense, indivisible—for us all.
- So is the literal “turkey point of view” offered by the GoPros attached to the turkeys as they run around the coop.
- “The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.
- What they will do is bring government into the bedroom in a far more literal way than the most aggressive anti-abortion laws.
- “Air refueling and airlift assets were the literal pinch I am describing here,” the official said.
- Sometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.
- In a literal sense, too,” added Tom Brown, “for it will be sold as waste-paper and be made up into matches.
- It would be impossible to find two figures more life-like, more literal, or painted with greater sincerity.
- "But, in the sense I mean, may have a very literal and terrible significance," pursued Dr. Silence.
- According to the literal meaning, it would seem that the Laird of Brodie was something less than a gentleman?