His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.
他在上层社会的影响使他违规而未被惩罚.
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如果你告诉一个人steponit（“加速；加快”，字面意义“踩在上面”）或者throwonyourcoat（“赶快穿上外套”，字面意义“扔在你的外套上”），他们可能会按字面理解你的话，那就会引起灾难性的后果。
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To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating.
眼见自己的身体日渐衰弱真是让人心烦。
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We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up.
我们必须设法控制经济，不然它非把我们吞噬了不可。
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I look back on it as the bloodiest (though not literally) winter of the war.
我现在回想起来，觉得那是战时最血腥的（但并非字面意义上的）一个冬天。
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对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯.
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I saw five cop cars pull into the driveway. And I literally freaked.
我看到5辆警车开进了我家的车道。我简直吓坏了。
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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
想像力正是人类草拟所有计划乃至成形的工作场所.
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Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people.
上演一台歌剧是一项浩大的工程，说要涉及数以百计的人真是一点都不夸张。
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Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.
关于它的实质的种种推测,确实已进行了数千年之久.
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These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.
这种克氏鳌虾喜欢生活在污浊的水沟里,它们实在是污水中的“垃圾处理员”.
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