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 literal ['litәrәl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 逐字的, 字面上的, 文字的, 字母的

n. 印刷错误

[计] 文字; 直接量; 字面量; 句节




    literal
    [ noun ]
    1. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

      2. <noun.communication>
    [ adj ]
    1. limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text

      2. <adj.all>
      a literal translation
    2. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

      3. <adj.all>
      her actual motive
      a literal solitude like a desert
      a genuine dilemma
    3. without interpretation or embellishment

      4. <adj.all>
      a literal depiction of the scene before him
    4. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)

      5. <adj.all>
      it's the literal truth


    Literal \Lit"er*al\, n.
    Literal meaning. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.


    Literal \Lit"er*al\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*al), a. [F. lit['e]ral,
    litt['e]ral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a
    letter. See {Letter}.]
    1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not
    figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a
    phrase.

    It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the
    owls can not abide. --Tyndale.

    2. Following the letter or exact words; not free.

    A middle course between the rigor of literal
    translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.
    --Hooker.

    3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.

    The literal notation of numbers was known to
    Europeans before the ciphers. --Johnson.

    4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative;
    matter-of-fact; -- applied to persons.

    {Literal contract} (Law), a contract of which the whole
    evidence is given in writing. --Bouvier.

    {Literal equation} (Math.), an equation in which known
    quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means
    of letters; -- distinguished from a {numerical equation}.

    1. Of course, calling this Iowa Republican a '60s child is strictly literal.
    2. In a book, "Verdict on the Shroud," they said the "converging evidence is not proof, but it does show that the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus is the best explanation" for peculiarities of the shroud.
    3. Across downtown, a literal taste of San Antonio awaits at Market Square, patterned after a traditional Mexican market.
    4. (Or is it the other way round?) Sir Terry talks volubly but in a methodical, literal way with an intelligence that seemed analytical rather than imaginative.
    5. Domestically, we tie ourselves into knots with political quibbling of the most literal sort; never mind if something is going to work or not - 'is it constitutional?' we want to know.
    6. She told amusing stories about the oddities of American life that maybe meant something more than their literal content, or maybe didn't.
    7. But those isolationists soon discovered that an inflationary depression in Germany risked literal starvation throughout Europe.
    8. "They are free; they are very free," she said. "I'm not concerned about making them real. I'm not pretending to make them literal.
    9. (Pronounced TICKee-doo, its literal meaning is "beautiful little thing of God.") Tristan is a third-generation Cornish speaker, one of the few in Cornwall.
    10. He is Hurricane Shtick: omnipotent whether turning his employer's cooking quarters into a literal Hell's kitchen, or fending off a lascivious bus driver, or improvising polite insults to Miss Field's new boyfriend (Pierce Brosnan).
    11. Relying heavily on the literal words of the law, for example, is a good idea.
    12. The figures, too, are relatively too small to make literal sense. Yet it is the magic of painting, that eye and hand must ever accommodate to a binocular vision and a shifting perception of reality.
    13. In one sense, this is almost literal.
    14. McKibben said the statement needed to be clarified in order to conform to the literal wording of the resolution.
    15. Conservatives believe in the literal truth of the Bible. Moderates say the Bible is open to individual interpretation.
    16. He called it "calendarizing," or taking the Bible to its most literal extremes by certain interpreters of biblical prophecy.
    17. To join the CRS applicants must affirm their belief in the literal account of creation and the deluge in Genesis and profess acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
    18. The internal conflict has lately been heightened by a campaign in which unionized Eastern pilots have refused to make takeoffs unless planes meet the most literal interpretation of FAA maintenance requirements.
    19. I'm afraid I always feel in trouble with people looking for literal or intellectual ideas in my work.
    20. But Iran reaches out in more ways than military thrusts and the threat of explosions (literal and figurative) beyond its borders.
    21. Hirohito's funeral, likely to be held in about six weeks, will be a massive event to mark the figurative and literal turning of an era, since years in Japan are numbered from the start of his reign in 1926.
    22. The struggle, fought largely over the issue of whether the Bible is the literal truth, has stirred up bitter feelings and sharp words.
    23. The production ends up being a literal, static remounting of the play, without the fire that should ignite the story.
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