喜樂美語
  1. 1/ˈlɪtərəl/字面上的、按字面意思的（相對於比喻義）

    Literal describes the exact, plain meaning of a word or sentence - no , no metaphor, nothing hidden behind it, just what it says. Literal is the opposite of 'figurative' (a meaning that isn't the plain one, like most ). For example, the phrase 'it's raining cats and dogs' does not have a literal meaning that makes sense - the actual, figurative meaning is just 'it's raining very hard.' People also say 'literally' to stress that something is exactly true, though many speakers today use 'literally' loosely, even when they don't mean it exactly, like saying 'I literally died laughing' when, of course, they didn't.

    示範例句 · Example

    A trade war is not a war in the literal sense — no one is fighting.

    中文翻譯貿易戰在字面的意義上不是一場戰爭——沒有人在打鬥。

    常見搭配

    • the literal meaning

      字面意思

      what the words say by themselves

      The literal meaning is clear, but the writer means something else.

    • in the literal sense

      照字面來說

      taking the words exactly as they are

      He is a giant, though not in the literal sense.

    • literal interpretation

      字面上的解讀

      understanding a text exactly as written

      A literal interpretation of the old rule would close the whole park.

From the word’s history

From Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis 'of letters or writing', from littera 'a letter'.

源自拉丁文 litteralis「和文字有關的」，來自 littera「字母」。

Wiktionary

組成Comes from Latin littera, 'a letter of the alphabet', plus '-al.'

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

literaladj/ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/

  • 1

    Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.

    • The literal translation of Spanish irse al otro barrio is "to go to the other neighbourhood" but it means "to die".
    • A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
  • 2

    Actual, real, physical.

    • Mechanically, operating this hybrid vehicle is sort of a cross between driving a car and taming an animal, which means the movie treats the audience to the sight of a man (pretending to be a teenager) driving a literal monster truck in a field next to a woman (also pretending to be a teenager) riding a horse.
  • 3

    That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given text is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it.

  • 4

    lifestylereligiontheologyFollowing the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.

    • It is most important to distinguish literalistic from literal interpretation. [...] ‘Literalistic’ interpretation is like word-for-word translation that yields the verbally exact or ‘formally equivalent’ versions but also runs the risk of overlooking the main (illocutionary) point. Literal interpretation, on the other hand, is more like a translation that strives for dynamic equivalence and yields the literary sense.
  • 5

    Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation.

    • a literal equation
  • 6

    Unimaginative; matter-of-fact; literal-minded.

  • 7

    Used nonliterally as an intensifier. See literally for usage notes.

    • Telemarketers are the literal worst.

literalnoun/ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/

  • 1

    epigraphyhistoryhuman-sciencesA misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.

  • 2

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsAn atomic formula (consisting of a propositional variable) or its negation.

  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsA value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。