When I told you to 'get lost' 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。)
Generosity literally means willingness in giving away one's own money,time,talent,etc.(慷慨的字面意思是自愿放弃金钱,时间,才智等。)
Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people.(上演一台话剧是一项巨大的事业,它确实要几百个人参与。)
These days lots of young Japanese do omiai, literally, "meet and look".(现在很多日本年轻人都在做"omiai",也就是相亲。)
In other words, tulips were literally worth their weight in gold.(换句话说,郁金香的价值相当于黄金的重量。)
Literally, it doesn't seem to see what it does.(从字面上来看,好像看不出来它是干嘛的。)
Most adverts are just too meagre in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally.(大多数广告只是在信息内容上太贫乏,而在情感暗示细节上太丰富,无法逐字阅读。)
We have literally altered the chemistry of our planet's atmosphere.(我们实际上改变了地球大气层的化学成分。)
Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.(蚜虫的确能把一株植物吸干。)
So when this was first found, people literally would not believe it.(所以当这被第一次发现时,人们简直不敢相信。)