literally

英语

其他形式

• lit. (缩写)
• litterally (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 litteraly，等价于literal +‎ -ly。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈlɪtəɹəli/, /ˈlɪtɹəli/

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• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈlɪtəɹəli/

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副词

literally (比较级 more literally，最高级 most literally)

1. 字面意义上的，没有比喻的

   近义词： actually、really、unfiguratively、unmetaphorically；亦参见Thesaurus:actually

   反义词： figuratively、idiomatically、metaphorically、virtually

   下位词： overliterally

   同类词： 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 5月 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, 出自 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 1月 7, Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane, “Inside the Capitol, the Sound of the Mob Came First”, 出自 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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2. (程度，比喻义，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）

   近义词： 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”, 出自 Chronicles of the Canongate‎^[3]，于15 June 2021归档自原页面:

     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，页号 193:

     You literally become the ball in a tennis match, you become the report that you are working on […]

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   • 2017 4月 22, New Straits Times, Malaysia，页号 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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3. (口语) 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”, 出自 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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4. (口语) 仅仅，不过 （用作广义弱化修饰词）

   近义词： merely；亦参见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

• 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”）。