核心畫面
You can think of 'literally' as a sign that says 'take these exact words, not the picture behind them' — it points to the plain, dictionary meaning, with no imagination added.
可以想成 literally 像一個牌子，上面寫著「請照這些字面本身來理解，不要去想它背後的比喻」。它指向最樸素、字…更多收起
可以想成 literally 像一個牌子，上面寫著「請照這些字面本身來理解，不要去想它背後的比喻」。它指向最樸素、字典上的那個意思，不加任何想像。這個「就照字面、不打比方」的核心，是它其他用法延伸出去的根。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
literallyadv/ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li/
- 1
In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word.
- He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.
- There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.
- 2
In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word.
- 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.
- I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.
- 3
In a literal manner; exactly as stated, word for word.
- My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
- What literally broke the ice that first night was when a 98-year-old retired professor spoke up. “Well, I have a choice of what to think about when I have insomnia at night. Being a lover of mathematics, last night when I couldn't sleep, I decided to calculate the tonnage of ice I delivered as a boy.”
- 4
As an intensifier.
- I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
- I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
- 5
As an intensifier.
- He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
- On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
- 6
Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
- It's not even hard to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
- It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。