literally
英語 編輯
其他形式 編輯
- lit. (縮寫)
- litterally (棄用)
詞源 編輯
源自中古英語 litteraly，等價於literal + -ly。
發音 編輯
副詞 編輯
literally (比較級 more literally，最高級 most literally)
- 字面意義上的，沒有比喻的
- 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.
- 我看到新聞說明天學校因為暴風雪停課時，我高興得真的跳了起來，然後頭撞到了吊扇。
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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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- (程度，比喻義，官方不推薦，自反義) 簡直，幾乎，可以說 （用於加強比喻義的程度，而非否定比喻義）
- 近義詞： virtually
- He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
- 他驚訝得快跳了六米高。
- My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
- 我女兒的寵物兔子生寶寶了，現在我們家可以說到處都是兔子。
- On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
- 9/11事件時大家時時刻刻都盯着電視。
- 1827, Sir Walter Scott, 「Appendix to Introduction」, 出自 Chronicles of the Canongate[3]，於15 June 2021歸檔自原頁面:
- 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，頁號 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，頁號 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 （增強非比喻義詞的語氣）
- 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.
- 她來的時候我真的就在吃早餐。
- She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
- 她就說了句，「哈？」然後我也回了句，「對。」
- Literally who is this?
- 這到底是誰啊？
- 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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- (口語) 僅僅，不過 （用作廣義弱化修飾詞）
- 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.
- 這根本就不難做——你就把它放進微波爐熱了五分鐘就做好了。
- It won't take me long to get back, cause the store's literally two blocks away.
- 我回來用不了多久的，因為那個商店就隔了兩個街區。
用法說明 編輯
- Literally是figuratively的反義詞，因此很多官方機構反對將literally用作比喻用法的語氣加強詞，比如「you literally become the ball」，不帶任何比喻義的話，就是指「你變成了球」，而這是不可能的，但是實際上，這是說話人在使用literally作為語氣加強詞，來強調比喻義的程度。這種用法在非正式口語中很常見（「she was literally in floods of tears」）。