| 单词 | literal |
| 释义 | literal (lɪtərəl ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] The literal sense of a word or phrase is its most basic sense. In many cases, the people there are fighting, in a literal sense, for their homes. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A literal translation is one in which you translate each word of the original work rather than giving the meaning of each expression or sentence using words that sound natural. A literal translation of the name Tapies is 'walls'. 3. adjective You use literal to describe someone who uses or understands words in a plain and simple way. Dennis is a very literal person. Synonyms: unimaginative, boring, dull, down-to-earth 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as the literal truth or a literal fact, you are emphasizing that it is true. [emphasis] He was saying no more than the literal truth. Synonyms: actual, real, true, simple Collocations: literal reading On a literal reading of the definition of existing transferee company, it appeared that such a company was disqualified from acting as the transferee. Times, Sunday Times A literal reading suggests a man only require the finances to make a relationship work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A literal reading of the law excludes coastal groups from recognition automatically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was under their influence now that he opposed the monopoly of religion on politics, and on a literal reading of religious texts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, courts have not adopted a literal reading of this requirement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dangers with such material are obvious enough, from sentimental idealisation to a bland and literal representation. Times, Sunday Times The recreation of the story's emotional experience rather than its literal representation? Globe and Mail At the same time, he traded the literal representation of history for an allegorical one. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I do not profess to give a literal representation of the state of the affections and of the moral being in childhood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film has been criticized for this, while the filmmakers insisted that the film was not meant to be a literal representation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are right in the most literal sense now. Times, Sunday Times In a literal sense, the pictures have got even smaller now. The Times Literary Supplement In the literal sense at any rate, this will soon be the case no longer. The Times Literary Supplement Here was a return to form, in the most literal sense. Times, Sunday Times In all but a literal sense they were already paying for them with their lives. Times, Sunday Times But, as the face of the world has grown ever more familiar, have we come to think of the map merely as a literal translation? Times, Sunday Times I've been using a new translation that the theatre had done for me - it's a literal translation so it's unperformable but accurate - and have been writing this anew. Times, Sunday Times So the literal translation would be an across-carrying. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nevertheless, in certain contexts a translator may consciously seek to produce a literal translation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A more literal translation of the text indicates only the speed of the movement of the notes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I suspect that most readers of misery litera-ture approach such books as something more malleable than literal truth: as story, fable or parable. Times, Sunday Times That's the funny thing about biopics: the immense care about details, and big, dramatic gestures that don't necessarily follow the literal truth. Times, Sunday Times Not a literal truth, but a metaphorical one. Times, Sunday Times Wealth provides leisure and better diet: the old belief that the upper classes were taller than the rest of us was the literal truth. Times, Sunday Times He was a polemical writer, concerned more with eliciting certain effects in his readers than with presenting the literal truth. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 字面上的 Japanese: 文字どおりの |
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