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Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。

He translated the passage literally.

他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字.

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”.

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。

If you tell a person to "step on it" or "throw on your coat," they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.

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。

And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.

这个国家的大众的确对此毫不在乎.

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.

Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.

阿尼根本无视我的存在, 因为他是同性恋者.

Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.

技术正在改变这一切, 它正在劈波斩浪为今日的水下探索者开路.

She literally ran along the path toward the gate.

她真的沿着小路向门奔跑过去.

A stanza is, literally, a room.

stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。

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.

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.

It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

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.

The children were literally starving.

孩子们的确是在挨饿.

Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.

成语通常不能用另一种语言逐字翻译.

Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.

蚜虫的确能把一株植物吸干。

The sentence cannot be literally rendered.

这个句子不能直译.

Windsor Castle is quite literally an antique treasure trove.

温莎城堡确实是名副其实的古物宝藏。

Until next payday, I was literally without any money.

到下个发薪日前，我真的没有一点儿钱了。

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。

The word "volk" translates literally as "folk"

volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。

The event literally stopped the traffic.

这一事件几乎让交通陷于停顿。

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。

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。

I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).

我的舌头被牙齿咬伤了.

She was literally blue with cold.

她真的冷得全身青紫.

The city was literally destroyed.

城市差不多全毁了.

I literally crawled to the car.

我真的是爬到车那边去的。

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。